Coffee Gerald Illus (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Coffee, Gerald (illus by a fellow POW) (illustrator). First Edition. Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revel Company, 1973. Subtitle: "Seven Years a POW in North Vietnam." INSCRIBED / SIGNED by a fellow POW -- William G. Byrns, Capt. USAF. The inscription reads, in part: "This book is a good example of what it was like." Capt. Byrns is listed by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as one the US Prisoners of War who returned alive from the Vietnam War (see printout, laid-in). Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine of the jacket is a little sunned -- but all lettering remains clear and distinct. NO chips, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($4.95). Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Previous owner's name on endpaper. All other pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings of prison scenes by a fellow POW -- Gerald Coffee. Authors are Howard Rutledge, Phyllis Rutledge, Mel White, Lyla White. Bound in the orginal red cloth, with a gilt-stamped black cloth spine. From the dust jacket: "On November 27, 1965 Captain Howard E. Rutledge parachuted into the hands of the North Vietnamese when his fighter plane exploded under heavy antiaircraft fire.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by a fellow POW. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Coffee, Gerald (illus by a fellow POW). 125pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 124pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, heavy fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling).