The Piddingtons by Russell Braddon7/2/2023 "red tape," of the scoffers and doubters. It tells of their discovery of their ability, the struggle to gatecrash the world of theatre and radio, first in Australia and then in England. The present volume, written by their manager and fellow-Australian Russell Braddon is, according to the blurb, a brilliant, heart-warming story of two young people who have had greatness thrust upon them. The Piddingtons stock-in-trade as a stage act was telepathy, and their methods were never explained. Facing the signatures, on the front pastedown, is the Ex libris / DESMOND YOUNG / Le Beaupré Sark, with illustration of nineteenth-century couple beneath the bowsprit of a sailing ship named The Seas, with another ship at sea behind the couple. The three signatures are one on top of the other in the centre of the recto of the front free endpaper: Leslie Piddington. Internally good and tight, on lightly-browned paper, in good binding with slight discolouration at head and foot of spine, caused by loss to the creased and damaged dustwrapper. 238pp, 8vo, with frontispiece and illustrations.
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