Forever Lost, Forever Gone (SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PADDY JOE HILL) by Hill, Paddy Joe - 1995

London: Bloomsbury, 1995. VG/VG. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PADDY JOE HILL, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'To Jed/Nam Myoho Renge Kyo/Wishing you all the beest/for the Future/Paddy Joe Hill/Birmingham Six/10-2'. Illustrated with photographs. In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the British mainland - the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and brutally beaten by members of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad (since disbanded). Hill was condemned by false scientific evidence. He was deprived of his freedom for sixteen years, three months and twenty-three days. Bruising to head of spine and bottom two corners; d/w has short edge tears (longest 4mm) to head of spine, and chipping to corners of the d/w; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PADDY JOE HILL.. Presentation Copy Inscibed And Signed By Author, . First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good.