Translated by Xan Fielding (32 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. G/none, used pb, 150pp. Color illustrated stiff paper wraps with gold and red colored text on upper and white text on spine, edge wear with chips at head and tail of spine, rounded tips, rubbed overall. Interior pages are clean, unmarked except former owner's inked name on verso of upper. Binding is tight.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. VG/none, used pb, x-xiv, 234 pages. Color illustrated stiff paper wraps, no chips, minimal edgewear, lower wrap has a 2 inch tear; wraps are very stiff and spine is not creased so not sure if book has ever been read. Interior pages are clean, unmarked, no highlighting or bends. Binding is tight.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 41 Edition By Publisher. 150 pgs. >> One of the finest war novels ever written! By renouned author of Planet of the Apes! Basis for one of the greatest war movies of all time! " It tells the story of three remarkable men who survived the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway. Colonel Nicholson - a man who was prepared to sacrifice his life. but not his dignity. Major Warden - the saboteur. A kindly, modest hero. a deadly killer. Commander Shears - a man who escaped from hell. and was ordered back." Painted cover! >>Pen & staining to front cover; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 7th printing [stated]. Soft cover. Pocket/mass market paper back. Corner bumped. Edge/shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages toned/sunned with age. Slight slant. Sprayed yellow page edges with soil/fingerprints.

Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. 18th Printing by Publisher. 189 pgs. >> One of the finest war novels ever written! By renouned author of Planet of the Apes! Basis for one of the greatest war movies of all time! " It tells the story of three remarkable men who survived the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway. Colonel Nicholson - a man who was prepared to sacrifice his life. but not his dignity. Major Warden - the saboteur. A kindly, modest hero. a deadly killer. Commander Shears - a man who escaped from hell. and was ordered back." Painted cover! >> Un-read copy.Minor sticker residue to front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Very good in lightly worn dust jacket with marginal tears Cloth Jacket lighty soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Later printing. New York: The Viking Press, 1963. Later Printing. Fine/Very Good+. Very clean blue-green cloth boards with beige cloth spine, blue-green lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks, clean endpapers 286 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with one 1/4" closed edge tear at rear top spine fold. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Winner of the Grand Prix Du Roman of the French Academy for fiction, this is a sea-going adventure tale in the greatest tradition of the genre. 8 vo. Ships & Sailing.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 189 pp. Fontana Book 1726. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Directed by David Lean, this was filmed in 1957, starring William Holden, Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, and a number of others. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Covers clean and unmarked, light edge and corner wear. Pages clean and tight, lightly tanned with age. Reader's thumb has worn a stretch halfway down the right side of the cover and next 3 pages. Avon New York 1956. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, viii,247pp, illustrated, maps, slight foxing on edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0900735163.

mass market paperback. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 150 pages; good mass market paperback; tanned pages; tips bumped with fray or chip; few slight nicks to cover edges; small stain for eedge; slight scuffs to cover; tanned inside covers; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Third Edition by Publisher. 174 pgs. translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Basis for the Movie "Planet of the Apes"! RARE Classic book! >>This is a reading copy. Cover creasing. paper pull to interior front cover (envelope removed); pen on title page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ian Vaughan Photo Cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of first English language editio. Very good. Lacking dust jacket. 170pp.

Hardcover. dj. First Thus Edition. Octavo, 255 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial blue with white and blue lettering. Exterior has mild wear including minor edge wear. Boards have slight wear including mild sunning and slight tilt to the spine. Text block has slight wear including light age toning to the edges. First thus edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column CC. 1414322. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Condition: Good. 1964. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear. Sunned spine, some minor foxing throughout, otherwise a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1964. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear. Sunned spine, some minor foxing throughout, otherwise a good copy. . . . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club. 191pp printing code of 33L at bottom of a rear page indicates August 1970 printing [short, closed tears and mild chipping to dust jacket; 1970 ink ownership on front free endpaper] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Film tie-in edition, with ad for the movie to rear cover. Front cover blurb: "Suspense and sabotage behind the Jap lines". Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Handling wear, mild marginal toning, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 189pp. SB-81.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK edition hardback, 1961, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj a little rubbed to edges. Internally very clean. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions; slight tanning to page-ends, text crisp and clear throughout. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Looks like a BOOK PROOF although this is not stated in, or on, the book. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref HVT999.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some foxing to the prelims, closed page edges and jacket. Small inscription twinked out using vivid. The jacket is price clipped with one short closed tear to the rear. Book store stamp.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, end paper maps. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. ISBN 0900735163. Contains [xvi] 247 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs to the centre. Without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow rubs to the spine tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0900735163 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, end paper maps. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. ISBN 0900735163. Contains [xvi] 247 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs to the centre. Without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tears to the spine tips and upper corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0900735163 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open, about new, in sturdy dark green slipcase. Maps by Reginald Piggott; 221 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated period art work card wrap covers. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Just a little tanning to the page edges, without any ownership markings and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Victor Brauner; (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. First Edition. Octavo. 352 pp. First British edition. In publisher's boards, lacking the dust jacket. Light wear at the spine ends and corners; binding a trifle cocked; textblock edges are somewhat toned; foxing to the endpapers; previous owner name and military unit ("Depot Para Regt") on the front free endpaper; endpapers a bit foxed; contents clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small missing piece to middle of spine, corners rubbed with small loss, but overall fab retro jacket bright and unsunned. not price clipped (10s 6d), small previous owner's name to ffep, some offsetting to endpapers, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 171pp. The semi fictional story of the POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma Siam railway. Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity, Major Warden a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer, Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead, at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command. David Lean made the motion picture that won seven 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle (1912-94), himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and, by his own admission, not even speaking English. Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. Boulle was neither a socialist nor a communist. The Motion Picture Academy added Foreman's and Wilson's names to the award in 1984. Kim Novak accepted the Oscar on behalf of Pierre Boulle. Translator Xan Fielding (Major Alexander Wallace Fielding DSO 1918-91), was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as a Special Operations Executive agent in Crete, France and the Far East during World War II. He is now remembered for his part in the abduction of German General Kreipe on Crete with Paddy Leigh Fermor. A scarce book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. Wonderfully clean bright pages Size: Medium (20 to 26cm). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Dust Jacket worn at edges. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Front-Free endpaper neatly cut out . **Heavy Book. A Postage surcharge may be requested. Contact us BEFORE ordering for a quote. Click Ask Bookseller a Question** *** WE ONLY POST TO AUSTRALIA NZ CANADA USA JAPAN SINGAPORE SWITZERLAND & UK VIA THIS SERVICE*** .…

First English edition, first printing. Original green cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near very good copy, the binding firm, the corners bumped, the cloth rubbed and with some wrinkling to the slightly rolled spine. The contents, with a bookplate to the front pastedown and seemingly issued without a front endpaper, has a couple of tiny ink spots to the text block fore-edge and some spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which has a number of closed tears and some loss at the base of the spine. Not price-clipped (10s 6d on the front flap). The first impression is quite scarce. A novel about prisoners of war labouring on a railway bridge in Burma during World War II. Though the novel is fictionalised and features no real people as characters, Boulle drew from his own experience of forced labour during World War II and from the real construction of the Burma or "Death" Railway by prisoners of war under the control of the Japanese Imperial Army. The basis for the 1957 Academy Award winning film of the same name, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…