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Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.Ziesings
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Condition: Paperback, Fine. London: Pocket Essentials:, 2001. Paperback, Fine, 96 pp. Cover artwork by: Simon Ray Great idea. We've got several dozen different titles in stock with more on the way. Ah, this is the one on Alan Moore - the guy that's done a lot of important and interesting work in the graphic story (comic) field.…Simon Ray (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by William Morrow and Company, 1960
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Seller: Kollectible & Rare Books, Bartlesville, OK, U.S.A.Kollectible & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Some rubbing and fading to boards. Bumping along edges of boards. Spine creases.
Language: English
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, NY, 1960
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- First Edition
Seller: Great Matter Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.Great Matter Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Blue cloth covers with silver lettering on spine which is clean. Covers exhibit light wear and fraying on corners and spine ends. Light wear on upper and lower edges. Light soiling and yellowing to page ends. Maps on the inside front and back covers are clean…and unmarked. Text and the many b&w full page drawings and maps are in fine condition. Hinges are tight. Illustrated dj is in a protective mylar cover with multiple small tears, chips and creasing on spine ends, edges and front cover corners. Light wear and soiling to hinges. Moderate shelf wear and soiling to covers. "The last voyage of the Australian cruiser Perth-a tale of heroism not surpassed in the annals of the sea-is told here in full for the first time, by the man who steered her for a great part of her last commission, as well as through her final battle in the narrow Sunda Strait." All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such. Parkin, Ray (illustrator).
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Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, AustraliaMarlowes Books and Music
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Reprint. 290 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
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Published by London : Hogarth Press, 1963
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Good copy in a library binding of patterned cloth boards, with titles and catalogue number gilt-blocked to spine. Endbands lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper lacking, with some preliminary and final leaves faintly foxed. Minor library marks remain, the interior remaining otherwise tight, bright and clean. Despite… evidence of library use and deaccessioning, a well-preserved example overall. Physical description; xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Parkin, Ray. Burma-Siam Railway. World War, 1939-1945. Prisoners of war. Forced labour. Memoir. 20th century. Illustrated. 3 Kg.
Language: English
Published by The Hogarth Press, London, England, 1960
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Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Nokomis, SK, CanadaPost Horizon Booksellers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.K. Edition. [xvii], 310pp. Twenty-five indexed, unpaginated illustrations by the author. Prev owner bookplate on half-title page. Cartographic endpapers. Blue-grey cloth w fine gold lettering on spine. Moderate shelf wear, mild bumping to tail. Binding sq…uare and sound. Illustrated DJ showing light wear to top edges and 1.5cm chip to back top edge, age toning to back panel. DJ preserved now in archival cover. Second printing, May 1960, stated. Introduction by Laurens van der Post. Parkin, Ray (illustrator).
Published by William Morrow,, NY:, 1960
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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Introduction by Laurens van der Post. First edition. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear with one small chip) dust jacket.
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Published by Pacific Books, Sydney, 1970
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Seller: East Kent Academic, Bridge, Canterbury, KENT, United KingdomEast Kent Academic
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. This is a rarer Pacific Books (Australia) publication of an Australian reconstruction in novel form of a wartime naval battle between both HMAS Perth (on which the author served) and USS Houston, and a Japanese invasion force in February March 1942 off Java. The 2 allied ships were eventually sunk bu…t only after sinking 15 Japanese vessels. 309 pages. Minor tanning and foxing and creasing on spine. But otherwise intact. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60. ISBN not appear to be recognised.
Published by The Hogarth Press, London, 1960
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Seller: Engel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Engel Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First U.K. Edition. Second printing, May 1960, stated. Twenty-five indexed, unpaginated illustrations by the author. Cartographic endpapers. Blue-grey cloth w fine gold lettering on spine. Cover is clean & crisp with slight wear to bottom spine edge. Binding s…quare and sound. Inside pages are clean & crisp with no writing or marks. Unclipped (21s) DJ has significant chipping and tears but is complete & bright, now in archival cover. Not ex-library or book club Photos gladly provided - recommended. Parkin, Ray (illustrator).
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Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdombooksonlinebrighton
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Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine,200 x 135 mm approx. 158pp. 6 illustrations all as called for. First Edition 1st Imp 1970. Moving memoirs recalling the profound influence on the lives of the prisoners of war held by Japan of which the author… was one following "The Night of The New Moon" August 6th 1945 the day the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.Very Good/ Very Good (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to boards, a little dust spotting to top edge of book block, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - two small tears - max 5 mm, white of rear panel and titles a little tanned, dust soiling to exposed edges of rear flap fold, non price clipped- cover 25s. £1.25 net. no other notable defects to book or jacket, the later now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. PARKIN, RAY (illustrator).
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Published by London : Hogarth Press, 1963
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Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Good copy in a library binding of patterned cloth boards, with titles and catalogue number gilt-blocked to spine. Endbands lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper lacking, with some preliminary and final leaves faintly foxed. Minor library marks remain, the interior remaining otherwise tight, bright and clean. Despite… evidence of library use and deaccessioning, a well-preserved example overall. Physical description; xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Parkin, Ray. Burma-Siam Railway. World War, 1939-1945. Prisoners of war. Forced labour. Memoir. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
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Language: English
Published by The Miegunyah Press, 2020
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Seller: The Known World Bookshop, Ballarat, VIC, AustraliaThe Known World Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Beautiful copy. This large book may require a freight adjustment.
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Published by William Morrow & Company, 1960
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Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good ex-library hardcover with good dust jacket. Some wear and stamps, endpapers scuffed. Black and white illustrations.
Published by The Hogarth Press 1960, 1960
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Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketOctavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by William Morrow, 1960
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Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.Abyssbooks
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Both book and jacket show minimal wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front free end page. First edition Wm. Morrow, 1960.
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1960
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Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaM. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The book is very good+ with slight edge wear and slight soiling to text block edges in a good price clipped dust jacket with edge wear, chipped at spine ends and a small piece missing at the lower spine end.
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Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, AustraliaBook Grocer
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Paperback. Ray Parkin, Melbourne University Press. Ray Parkin's famous trilogy of wartime experience is published here for the first time in a single paperback volume. These brilliant books hum with action, adventure and courage. Honestly and plainly written, they are full of humanity and great wisdom. Out of the Smoke tells of…Ray's experiences as Action Chief Quartermaster in HMAS Perth, which was sunk while engaging an overwhelming Japanese naval force in the Sunda Strait. Two cruisers, HMAS Perth and USS Houston, fought until their ammunition was exhausted. Thus defenceless and surrounded, sunk by four torpedoes and gunfire. It had been a night action, desperate and determined until the inevitable end. A small party of the survivors tried to sail a derelict lifeboat to safety, only to land at a port in enemy hands. In his Introduction to the book, Sir Laurens van der Post describes Out of the Smoke as 'one of the great stories of war at sea'. Into the Smother tells, direct from the author's diary, of his fifteen months as a POW on the Burma-Siam railway. The construction of this railway remains one of history's most awful instances of man's inhumanity to man. Ray documents with remarkable restraint the horrors and sufferings he and his comrades endured at the mercy of the cruel jungle and the Imperial Japanese Army. The book has an appendix by Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, to whose care Ray had entrusted his secret writings, drawings and paintings when taken to Japan. Into the Smother is impressive in its honesty and inspiring in its evocation of courage and endurance. The Sword and the Blossom tells of Ray's last twelve months of captivity. Shipped to Japan in an incredibly crowded, derelict tramp steamer, he and his comrades endured submarine attacks and weathered a typhoon with open hatches. They were then taken to a POW camp at Ohama, on the shores of Honshu, where they worked in a coal mine under the Inland Sea. With the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki-one just to the north of them, the other just to the south-the POWs found themselves free among a people who had held over them the power of life and death. The Sword and the Blossom gives the reader a remarkable insight into the Japanese way of thinking, and lights the ghastly experience with magnificent prose. These classic books are illustrated with Ray Parkin's evocative and detailed drawings and sketches, made secretly at the time. Paperback.
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Published by Hogarth Press, 1960
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Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. boards are worn and quite marked. thorough foxing. loose binding and visible netting. fair reading copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Language: English
Published by Melbourne; Miegunyah Press; 1997 second edition 2003, 2003
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Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaFine Print Books (ABA)
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hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 467 pages, b/w illusts and maps, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.
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Language: English
Published by Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2003. Second edition., 2003
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Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, AustraliaSainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd.
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8vo, 467pp. Black & white illustrations with folding diagram. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket with slightly faded spine.
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Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne & Campbelltown, 2005
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Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaGoulds Book Arcade, Sydney
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Add to basketPaper Back. Condition: Good. 90 pages. The cover is lightly worn. The page edges are a little yellowed with age. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size C: 6"-7" Tall (151-177mm).
Published by London, The Hogarth Press, 1960., 1960
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Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, AustraliaGrant's Bookshop
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Add to basketxx+310pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. B&w illustrations, endpapers illustrated with maps, name and tape shadows on endpapers, a very good copy. First edition.
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Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 [Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway -- The "Fepow" prayer -- Introduction -- Part one. Surrender -- Interlude : "We feel let down rather" -- Changi -- Interlude : Christmas in captivity -- The railway of death -- Interlude : A walk along the River Kwai -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- Interlude : Boon Pong -- "Speedo" -- Interlude : Smokey Joe's -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death --
MacArthur, Brian ; James Sanders, Rod Suddaby, Margaret Lewis, Peter Stanley, David Joliffe, Roland Philipps, Hilary Rubenstein, Ursula Mackenzie, David Young, Stephen Guise, Peter Cotton, Nann de Sautoy, Diane Spivey, Tamsin Barrack, Alan Samson, Robert Loomis, Evan Camfield, Daniel Barrett, Robin Glendenning, Peter Field, Duncan Stuart, Philip Parr, ; prisoners, Stephen Alexander, Lewis Altman, James Bradley, Jack Chalker, Tom Evans, Stanley Gimson, Reuben Kandler, Peter Jamieson, Eric Lomax, James Mudie, Ray Parkin, Nowell Peach, Charles Peall, Fred Ryall, Arthur Titherington, John Stewart Ullman, Loet Velmans
Language: English
Published by New York : Random House, c2005.xxx, 458 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm., 2005
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxx, 458 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. ; LCCn 2004054193 ; ISBN 9781400064137, 1400064139 ; OCLC 56413352 ; black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Author's note -- Map : Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway -- The "Fepow" prayer -- Introduction -…- Part one. Surrender -- Interlude : "We feel let down rather" -- Changi -- Interlude : Christmas in captivity -- The railway of death -- Interlude : A walk along the River Kwai -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- Interlude : Boon Pong -- "Speedo" -- Interlude : Smokey Joe's -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Interlude : Ave Maria -- The railway opens -- Part two. Survival -- Cooks Food -- Religion -- Jungle medicine -- Smoking Gone with the Wind -- King Rat -- Letters -- Entertainment -- Sports -- Ingenuity -- The "canaries" -- Officers and gentlemen -- Part three. The hellships -- Interlude : A happy ending -- Japan -- Interlude : The "Jap-happy" -- Haruku -- Interlude : A conjuring trick -- Sandakan -- Interlude : Mozart -- Changi 1944-45 -- Interlude : "Don't let this thing drag on much longer" -- Freedom -- Interlude : Bushido -- Home at last -- Epilogue : The last post -- Postscript : What became of them? ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Published by The Canadian Fiction Magazine,, Toronto,, 1984
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Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, CanadaBook Stage
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Add to basketSoftcover. 293 pp., B&W Photographs More contributors: Gary Whitehead, Eugene McNamara, Aritha van Herk, William Goede, Rohinton Mistry,bp Nichol, Gerald Lynch, Patrick Lewis, George McWhirter, Derk Wynand, Janice Kulyk Keefer. Geoff Hancock. Light shelf wear, smudges at fore edge, inside v.g.
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Published by The Hogarth Press, 1960
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Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, AustraliaBook Grocer
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Add to basketHardback. Ray Parkin, The Hogarth Press. Author: Ray ParkinBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsOut Of The Smoke chronicles Ray Parkin's harrowing experiences as a sailor aboard HMAS Perth durin…g World War II, detailing the ship's dramatic sinking and the subsequent struggle for survival. This powerful memoir presents a stark, unvarnished account of naval warfare and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity. Parkin illustrates the brutal realities of combat and captivity with vivid prose, offering a deeply personal perspective on a pivotal moment in history. The narrative captures the camaraderie and despair of men pushed to their limits, making it a compelling testament to endurance. It argues for the profound impact of war on individuals, leaving an indelible mark on its readers. Hardback.
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Seller: Brook Bookstore On Demand, Napoli, NA, ItalyBrook Bookstore On Demand
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Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, AustraliaBanfield House Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 467 pages. Illustrated, map.
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Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United KingdomMajestic Books
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Condition: New. pp. 970.
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Language: English
Published by The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, 1997
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Seller: The Known World Bookshop, Ballarat, VIC, AustraliaThe Known World Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 468pp inc. index. Red cloth boards with title in gilt. Accompanied by maps and plans in mathing foldout case. Both encased in illustrated slipcase. Books and plans very good. Slipcase has evidence of silverfish with abrasions at extremities. This heavy set will require a freight adjust…menty.
Published by Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1999., 1999
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Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, AustraliaGrant's Bookshop
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Add to basket8vo, xvi + 951pp. Original boards in predominantly teal pictorial dustwrapper. A reprint of all tree novels comprising Parkin's 'Wartime Trilogy' in a single volume. Each novel in prefaced by a b/w reproduction of the cover artwork of the first edition o each novel. A near-fine to fine copy. First edition thus.
