Bar Shadow by Post Laurens (35 results)

Hard cover. Condition: Fine. No dust jacket. first US printing. 59p., 20 cm. Some light penciled underlining.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first impression hardback. Patterned cloth which looks like an Enid Marx design. 64 pp. Very Good + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket No inscriptions.

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).

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

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: 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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Publisher Hogarth Press, London 1954. 1st ed. First edition. Very good condition in blue and cream patterned boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slight foxing on page edges, slightly bumped corners, no markings or inscriptions, tight binding. Dustjacket in fair condition.…

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: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. [195 x 130 x 10 mm]. 58, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's quarter blue cloth over decorative paper boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original unclipped dust jacket priced at 5s. (Light foxing and a few small closed tears to the jacket, edges foxed). Small neat ownership inscription to the front paste down, otherwise the text block is clean. In very good condition. First published in The Cornhill Magazine, A Bar of Shadows recounts van der Post's experiences as a POW held by the Japanese and focuses on a specific sergeant named Hara to study the Japanese mentality.…

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.