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BRADDON, Russell (1921 – 95). The Piddingtons. London: Werner Laurie, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth with pictorial jacket (tattered), illustrated with sketches by Robert Searle. 8vo. SIGNED on the title page by Lesley and Sidney Piddington, and illustrator Robert Searle. With two ALSs from one of the Piddington’s friends and associates, Fergus Anckhorn laid in. Braddon wrote extensively about ware and his time in a Japanese P.O.W. camp; it was in the dreaded Changi Prison where he met the Piddingtons and where they first presented their feats of mind reading. This is the first of Braddon’s many books.