Hayes Billy with Hoffer William (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 280 pages. Sound binding, pages yellowed; very good shape. The jacket has some scuffing, discoloring and wear. "The American Papillon: A young man's escape from a Turkish Prison." Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0525156054. ISBN/EAN: 9780525156055. Inventory No: 231866. …

Condition: Good. 1980. Reprint. 238 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing of this "American Papilon: A young man's escape from a Turkish prison". Near fine in a near fine dustjacket with some fading to the spine. Not priceclipped and no markings. (shelf).

Paperback. Condition: Good. 238 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding firm; clean photographic wrapper has slight edge wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. [viii], 280pp [light staining on page edges; mild edgewear to dj] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Instanbul back to his home in America. It ws the year when he was arrested at Instanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to thirty years in a Turkish jail. For five years he suffered the filth, brutality and degradation of imprisonement in an environment of hellish squalor, while his family fought in vain to secure his release. Finally, in desperation, he made a daring escape bid - and incredibly, the bid succeeded. This is the astounding true story, told in Billy Hayes's own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run. Vivid, realistic, without being morbid, it is a classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humour, intelligence and total honesty.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Worn. Age spots and browning, edge wear, spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. small owner's label to ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition with the full number line present. Hardcover quarter bound in black cloth and blue boards. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rubs to the jacket's corners and spine tips.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Condition: (see pics.) Front cover has a small piece missing from the base right hand corner. Pages are yellowing due to age. Still intact albeit a little scruffy. Synopsis: Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humour, honesty, and heart, it became the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name. In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape plotting, Hayes finally took matters into his own hands. On a dark night, in a wailing storm he began a desperate and daring escape to freedom This is the astounding journey, told in Billy Hayes's own words, of those five years of living hell and of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run.…

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Midnight Express is a 1977 nonfiction book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer about Hayes' experience as a young American who was sent to a Turkish prison. The….

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a Fine condition first edition, with first edition stated on the copyright page. It is marred only by a very small and tidy name stamp on bottom edges of the pages. The book is wrapped in a very fine condition dust jacket, with $7.95 price on the jacket's front flap. This is the harrowing true story of a young American's escape from a Turkish prison and his journey to freedom, the basis for the 1978 film of the same name, with screenplay by Oliver Stone. Often called an American Papillon story. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Page 211/212 has been creased else fine in fine dust jacket with just some rubbing to top of crown.

Condition: Fine. 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition, minor wear at edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition.238pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Slight bumping to tail of spine. Light spotting to exterior of text block and endpapers. Small biro mark at top right corner of ffe. Price-clipped jacket a little toned and rubbed; minor sunning to spine and with just a few light spots to flaps. *** "The hair-raising story of a young man's escape from a Turkish prison." Published a few months after the US edition, but much scarcer. Adapted into the film of the same name in 1978.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 280. Bound in black cloth covered hard boards with yellow lettering to the spine; with the original publisher's dust jacket, unclipped and priced $7.95. The story of Billy Hayes, a young American arrested and imprisoned for smuggling hashish out of Turkey. Adapted for the screen in 1978, in a movie that was nominated for six Academy Awards. Laid in is a short note regarding publicity for the book on the letterhead of Midnight tabloid newspaper. Book and jacket are both in Fine condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Tall 8vo. Uncorrected proof in original stiff printed blue wrappers. Very good-fine. 189 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 280pp. Black cloth stamped in bright yellow on spine. Fine in about fine dust jacket with slightest rubbing. The basis of the 1978 film, set in a prison in Turkey, directed by Alan Parker, with screenplay by Oliver Stone. Very uncommon in this condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 238pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally dust soiled, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. The author's account of his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, having been given a life sentence for smuggling hashish. Memorably adapted for cinema by Oliver Stone (his second screenplay).…