Bar Shadow by Laurens Post (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and light fading.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book nice but for wet stains near top of spine which have bled to some pages and eps. Book text unmarked otherwise.

Condition: Good. 1954. No Edition Stated. 58 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket and boards. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint . Name of the previous owner on the front free end page. The dust jacket is shelf rubbed, closed tears, chipped pieces and most of the spine is missing. The boards are in very good condition. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the end pages. Internally there are no other markings or inscriptions. Presented in cellophane. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Condition: Sehr gut. 58 (1) Seiten Schutzumschlag etwas berieben und mit Einriß; Buch: Kanten etwas berieben / bestossen, papierbedingte Seitenbräunung /// Standort Wimregal -[ Standort Wimregal . ISS-11705 ISBN 701203803 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 146 2. Auflage im Monat nach der Erstausgabe.

Condition: Good. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 58 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over patterned paper covered boards with blue cloth to spine. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition thus. 61pp [light fraying to cloth spine ends; closed slit along portin of front cloth spine] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

2nd impression. 58pp. Orig. half cloth with dw.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

first edition 59pp NF (blue/cream patterned paper boards w.blue cloth spine,sl.foxing to prelims.) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled/foxed,spine sl.browned).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 58 pages (complete). Jacket torn, tapped , chipped, marked. Boards edge worn and marked. Tanning, minor markings. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Jacket by Bill Meek. Slim octavo. 61pp. Boards slightly cocked with a bit of wear, very good or better in a corner-clipped ($1.95 price remains) good only dust jacket with small chips and two internal tape reinforcements. "This is the story of a Christmas visit between two Englishmenand of another Christmas when both were prisoners of the Japanese" (from the jacket).

HB. Second printing. VG plus to near fine. No dw.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good ( Grubby Boards ). No Jacket. This is the FIRST EDITION. The book about life in a Japanese POW camp in World War Two. 56pp Grubby boards fine contents . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Thin. Signed by A Previous Owner(in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Editiony. Hardback, no dustwrapper, decorative boards lightly rubbed to edges and spine, bumped to corners 'INSCRIBED TO FREE FRONT END PAPER ' TO ROSEMARY, ONOUR FIRST MEETING IN 1954 WITH LOVE FROM MARGARET HILLAND AND LAURENS VAN DER POST ' I have the feeling the authors name was there first and the reat was added later! No other inscriptions, very good condition internally, appears to have been only lightly read.

first edition, blue check paper with cloth spine, 58pp, VG+(v sl cocked, sl edgewear, v sl sunned, prev owners sign to fep, v sl browned ep's with v sl foxing to ep's & edges) d/w VG(v sl wear to extrems, sunned, internally browned & foxed, price clipped, flaps v sl browned).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket is worn and marked.Tanning.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This is the story of Hara, a Japanese sergeant in command of a prisoner-of-war camp. A penetrating and enthralling study of the Japanese mentality, the Japanese myth, as personified by this demonic, naive, brutal, weirdly idealistic sergeant. Small format. Blue cloth spine with gilt title. Blue and white design paper boards. 58 pages. Reprint in the first year of publication. Boards lightly browned. Minor foxing present mainly to text block. Contents generally clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear panel, foxing to rear panel, corners lightly worn with minor chipping. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. in The Cornhill No991. Spring, 1952. Wrappers. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression, SIGNED with inscription to title page. The book is Good+ with some spotting to pages, in unclipped jacket with some spine browning, a few small nicks and light spotting. Hogarth Press 1954. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 59 pages. (SL#237).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue and white decorated boards, gilt-lettered blue cloth spine, slight rub by top fr. spine otherwise clean and unworn. 59 pp.; small sig. top fr. end-paper, very faint tanning to end-gutter regions off-set from jacket wraparounds, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated jacket generally clean but chips to sp. ends and, fairly large, to bottom back edge, slight chips also top back edge and fr. joint, with internally closed tear, barely visible, across centre sp., will add protective sleeve when ordered. 1st issued in September this is the 1st, October, reprint, originally published in the Cornhill magazine. As a Japanese prisoner of war, the author became close friends with another prisoner and this is primarily a quite moving account of this friend's relationship with the effective camp commandant. Hara, a brutal but fascinating man, and his reconciliation with him before his execution for war-crimes. In retrospect it reads as somewhat racist but is an insightful and generous story. One of the author's earlier works. 12.5 cm x 19 cm.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Dust jacket torn and chipped. Owner's name on front free endpage. (Christmas, World War 2, Japanese prisons, biographical fiction).