Bar Shadow by Post Laurens (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. original cloth backed boards hardcover, 60 pages, very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B243.

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.

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.…

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.

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).

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.…

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).

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: 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.

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.

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: 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.…

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

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ for age. 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.…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Cover missing. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Library rebind Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. DJ in plastic protective cover. An unread book.

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: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Jacket by Bill Meek. Slim octavo. 61pp. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. "This is the story of a Christmas visit between two Englishmenand of another Christmas when both were prisoners of the Japanese" (from the jacket).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 59. Original cloth-backed patterned boards, lettered gilt to spine. Light rubbing to edges and spine. The unclipped pictorial d/w shows rubbing to the edges and one short to the top edge. Slight darkening to the spine and rear panel. No inscriptions. A fresh copy.…

Condition: Very Good. William Morrow & Co. New York 1956.

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

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

(2nd imp) Qt.cl. & dec.bds. Dustjacket. 58pp. Dustjacket sl.torn else a very good copy. Signed by the author. Laurens Van Der Post recounts the story of two former WWII soldiers, one a POW capture by the Japanese in the Malaysian tropics. The other his captor who is moved by this man's capacity to forgive.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The format is approximately 5 inches by 7.5 inches. 58 [6] pages. The spine is frayed and slightly separating at the top. Some discoloration and ink notations on the front and end papers Brief ink notation on fep and rep. This story was first published in The Cornhill, and then as a book in 1954. This is the story of Hara, a Japanese sergeant in virtual command of a prisoner-of-war camp. It is more than a little autobiographical for Colonel van der Post was himself a prisoner of war in the Far East. The book is a penetrating study of the Japanese mentality, the Japanese myth, as personified by this demonic, brutal, weirdly idealistic sergeant. How Hara's curiosity about Father Christmas saves a British Prisoner from the death-cell, and how this officer later spoke up for his torturer at a War Crimes Tribunal, provide the climaxes of a book which proves once again that truth is far stranger than fiction. But A Bar of Shadow does something more. It shows that men not only must but can love their enemies: and it shows how this most difficult love may be achieved by a courageous imaginative understanding. Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE (13 December 1906 - 15 December 1996), was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in the Kalahari Bushmen, his experiences during World War II, as well as his relationships with notable figures such as King Charles III and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Hogarth Press, was a business run by the married couple Leonard Woolf and the novelist Virginia Woolf. The Woolfs were members of the literary and artistic Bloomsbury group. In 1934, the Woolfs published van der Post's first novel. Called In a Province, it portrayed the tragic consequences of a racially and ideologically divided South Africa. In May 1940, van der Post volunteered for the British Army and upon completion of officer training in January 1941 he was sent to East Africa in the Intelligence Corps as a captain. There he took up with General Wingate's Gideon Force which was given the task of restoring the Emperor Haile Selassie to his throne in Abyssinia. In early 1942, as Japanese forces invaded South East Asia, van der Post was transferred to Allied forces in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), because of his Dutch language skills. By his own statement, he was given command of Special Mission 43, the purpose of which was to organize the covert evacuation of as many Allied personnel as possible, after the surrender of Java. On 20 April 1942, he became a prisoner of the Japanese. He was taken to prison camps first at Sukabumi and then to Bandung. Van der Post was known for his work in maintaining the morale of prisoners of many nationalities. Along with others, he organized a "camp university" with courses from basic literacy to degree-standard ancient history, and he also organized a camp farm to supplement nutritional needs. He could speak some basic Japanese, which helped him greatly. He wrote about his prison experiences in A Bar of Shadow (1954). Following the surrender of Japan, while his fellow POWs were repatriated, van der Post chose to remain in Java, and on 15 September 1945, he joined Admiral Wilfrid Patterson on HMS Cumberland for the official surrender of the Japanese in Java to British forces representing the Allies. Van der Post then spent two years helping to mediate between Indonesian nationalists and members of the Dutch Colonial Government. He had gained the trust of the nationalist leaders such as Mohammad Hatta and Sukarno and warned both British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and the Allied Supreme Commander in South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, whom he met in London in October 1945, that the country was on the verge of blowing up. Van der Post traveled to The Hague to repeat his warning directly to the Dutch cabinet. In November 1946, British forces withdrew and van der.…