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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. the jacket is bit torn and worn. small chip at the front. creased. marked. damp marked. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.N.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 87eu
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Mikolaycak, Charles (dust jacket art) (illustrator). First Printing of the First US Edition. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1971. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (lightly rubbed, but no chips, tears, or creases). Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($6.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Novel of WWII British soldiers. Honestly recreates the far-fetched rumors, crude jokes, sex, and gambling of lonely soldiers on leave in Calcutta, India (the "capital of whoredom"). Also captures the bitterness of the fighting against the Japanese by the 14th Army in Burma "where it was men rather than machines that turned the tide." Bound in the original reddish cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. From the dust jacket: "In A SOLDIER ERECT Brian W. Aldiss has written one of the most irreverent and wildly funny books yet to appear about the way of World War II combat soldiers behaved - really behaved - while on leave in foreign countries." . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Mikolaycak, Charles (dust jacket art). 8vo. 272pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 021434
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. the jacket is shelf rubbed and partly torn. mild tanning. no inscriptions. well bound. good copy.[S.Nor]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 19er
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1978. Hard Cover. Second impression. Originally published in 1971. Green cloth boards with very faint discolouration along the top edge and gilt titles to the spine. Text block clean and unmarked. Decorative dust wrapper with no wear except a very small closed tear to the rear wrap. The successor to The Hand-Reared Boy, the humorous further adventures of Horatio Stubbs in the British Army in India and Burma during World War Two. The only novel to describe a soldier s life in the Forgotten Army . Seller Inventory # FEB13015
Book Description Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected inour purpose-made plastic sleeve. A closed tear to rear panel and upper front panel of DJ. 272 pages. The successor to The Hand-Reared Boy, the humorous further adventures of Horatio Stubbs in the British Army in India and Burma during World War Two. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Seller Inventory # 235155
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback 1971 first editon , first impression , near fien in near fine dustjacket , unclipped. Seller Inventory # ABE-5654747572