Ken Attiwill (10 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 312pp. Octavo hardbound, tight binding. Boards worn and faded. Interior clean throughout. dj: Paper, worn, torn, creasing, in mylar protection.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. clean, solid, edge wear, dj has significant edge wear, chipping, toning, now in Brodart wraps. BP/Nautical.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition 1957. This book is in good condition - pencil price and small bookseller's stamp on ffep; considerable discoloration and foxing to endpapers with foxing continuing lightly on next few pages. The dust jacket is in fair-good condition - protected by clear non-adhesive covering; price-clipped; considerable edge wear with chips, rubbing, small loses and tears.…

Third Impression. Condition: vg. vg 3rd impression WDL Books 1959 edition paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. THE SINGAPORE STORY Ken Attiwill. Corgi Books, London 1961 First Thus 288pp Illustrated Paperback. This copy has some typical age toning to the page edges and some mild creasing to the front panel of the illustrated card covers. Written in words of white heat, the whole incredible truth about a defeat that shattered the world. The fall of Singapore in 1942 was one of the most resounding catastrophes in British military history. What exactly happened? Who was responsible? Why were Japanese forces ever allowed a foothold in Malaya? How were two proud battleships, Prince of Wales and Repulse sent to the bottom in the first few hours without engaging a single enemy ship? Ref P6.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A good quality Boots Library first edition hardcover copy without a dustcover. There's a sticker on the front cover, some light shelf wear to the covers and some small page end marks. The spine is straight, the binding is tight and the text is pretty much clear of spotting but there is a clipping of the ship 'Archibald Russell' glued opposite the beginning of chapter 1. Please see photos.…

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 206pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, plate to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals).

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy 8vo. 253pp., b/w plates, ep maps, index, A reconstruction of the fall of Singapore. No dust jacket o/w a nice copy.

First Edition. Story of thirteen men sailing home from a voyage to Iquique during which three other men were lost with a young girl as a stowaway. Very Good but for partial split along front spine edge, in a Good plus dustjacket with closed tear along most of front spine edge of panel repaired with scotch tape, shallow chipping and short tears to edges.…

First Edition. February 19, 1938 issue, No. 1. Quarto, original illustrated paper wrappers. Uncommon children's magazine, this issue with two complete stories by Johns, one a Biggles story. Also last page is a photoplay of sorts, a one quarto page story with five stills from the film Non-Stop New York, a Gaumont British Picture Corp. film of a young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York. Based on the novel by Ken Attiwill and screenplay by Roland Pertwee (starring John Loder and Anna Lee). Very Good.…