Nor Iron Bars A Cage The Adventures Of Three British Prisoners Of War 1940-1942

W. H. Aston

Published by MacMillan & Co. Ltd, 1946
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1946. No edition remarks. 218 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild foxing. Moderate water staining to spine. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing and marking all over. Seller Inventory # 1718611369ALK

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Title: Nor Iron Bars A Cage The Adventures Of Three...
Publisher: MacMillan & Co. Ltd
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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W. H. Aston
Published by Macmillan, 1946
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Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

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Condition: Fair. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is also loose. Boards have heavy rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends as well. Seller Inventory # 1630920295TMB

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Aston, W H
Published by Macmillan and Co, London, UK, 1946
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Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. viii, 218pp, with 'map' endpapers. Dark blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Soiling to boards. Spine sun-faded, spine ends heavily rubbed with cloth worn through. Corners heavily rubbed and rounded with cloth worn through. Text block edges lightly foxed and tanned, top edge dusty. Significantly cocked. Bookshop label on back of front free endpaper. Light tanning on endpapers. Foxing from text block edges visible on page margins of some pages. Internally neat and clean. On the author's experiences as a prisoner of war during WWII. Foreword by G F Collie. Seller Inventory # 015413

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Aston, (W. H.)
Published by MacMillan, London, 1946
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Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A reasonable copy in a dustjacket that has some nicks, small losses and is a bit tanned at the spine. The top edge of the pages is a little dusty. Size: Octavo . Category: Military & Warfare; Seller Inventory # 75632

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Aston, W. H
Published by Macmillan, Lon., 1946
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Seller: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. the author and two others were captured during the fall of France in 1940 but eventually escaped. Seller Inventory # 006363

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Aston, W H & Collie, Captain G F
Published by Macmillan & Co, 1946
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Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom

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hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, some minor age-colouring to closed page edges and light occasional foxing else a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, the unclipped dust wrapper is foxed, age-toned and lightly stained, chipped and with loss to head of spine, gummed paper repairs to the reverse, maps to endpapers, Seller Inventory # 243258

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W. H. Aston
Published by London: Macmillan & Co., 1946
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Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom

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Hardback in Dust Wrapper. First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾" x 5¾" (0.6 kg); (vii) 217pp; Preface by Captain G. F. Collie; Signed by the author, without dedication, on the half-title page without provenance. Contains: Maps to the endpapers and blanks; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #184315|| Condition: Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat frayed, heavily reinforced with paper to the verso. Leans. Pages deeply tanned by age. Previous owners' name to the half-title page. Seller Inventory # 184315

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Aston, W. H.
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1946
Used Hardcover First Edition

Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

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Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. vii, [1], 218 p. Includes maps. Maps of escape route at endpapers. Introduction by Captain G. F. Collie, M.B. E., 51st Highland Division. The author and two colleagues were wounded in France before that country fell to the Nazis. The author also had a leg injury that necessitated amputation, and took to wearing a peg leg. These three wounded servicement made their way from a hospital in Paris into Andorra, and finally to Barcelona and from there they were able to be repatriated to England. Good in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Previous owners bookplate. Pencil erasure on fep. Seller Inventory # 69099

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