Pitcher by Mcdonald (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd printing. nice copy; a series of letters dictated in a German prison hospital by a New Zealander airman who later died in the camp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The author was a fellow prisoner of another New Zealander during the Second World War in Germany, his colleague narrated his story before his death from the injuries sustained when his aircraft was shot down, thus leaving this record of his life. 224pp. Brown cloth boards. Slight bow to upper board. Spine lightly sunned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very moving narrative of World War II, dictated to a fellow POW in a German Prisoner of War Camp by a New Zealand bomber navigator, lyiing in hospital bed suffering from burns which eventually killed killed him.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Published in GB. 224 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. 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. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition Thus. 224 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning and mild water droplets to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The story of a New Zealand bomber navigator who died in a German PoW camp and whose notes were passed through channels to be written up as this unusual memoir of life in the Second World War RAF. 224pp. DJ protected by removable clear plastic cover. Light rubbing to edges of DJ with several chips to head of DJ spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First American Edition. Previous owner name and bookplate, otherwise Very Good in Very Good DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. > Edition/Printing: First American Edition. WWII letters written by unknown author and accumulated by a Squadron Commander. Air war in New Zealand air forces in Europe. 308 pp. > DJ Good, edge and corner wear. | > Language: English | > Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy. Some foxing to top, bottom and fore edges. No inscriptions. Good dustwrapper showing some signs of wear (few small nicks and tears). Smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.

Hardcover in jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. THE PITCHER AND THE WELL Edited By Squadron Leader J. D. McDonald from the papers of a New Zealand airman; Oldbourne, London. 1962. (First English Edition - Previously Published in 1961 in New Zealand By Paul's Book Arcade. 1961.) This book is hard-bound in blue-cloth with white lettering on the spine. The binding is solid and tight; contents are bright and clean, a nice manuscript of a WWII member of a Bomber Crew dictated while lying in German prison camp suffering from burns he soon dies from.…

Condition: Good. Foxed; plasticized; name and date on endpaper.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper slightly age-toned; Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.8 kg); pp 224; 2nd printing, first published 1962. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #194980 ||.…

Hardcover. Condition: fair. Acceptable Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. unused copy.

[1962], 2nd printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 224pp. The bottom front corner is bumped. From the letters of a New Zealand airman who was a POW of the Germans and later died of his wounds. Locale: ; New Zealand. (World War 2, Air Force, Personal Narratives, Prisoners of War).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo, 224pp, orig mustard cloth, bit of a thin mark round the bottom of the cloth from tape residue that the dustwrapper protector has left , but the book is a vg tight copy in dustwrapper which is a small bit sunned to spine but vg and complete , and in the said clear dustwrapper protector , which is removeable if needed. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. private library liquidation. First page previous owner sig. Brown cloth hard stamped, gold lettering.

Condition: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original caramel paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 224 printed pages of text. Slight browning to the closed page edges. Fine clean condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper with fading to the pink of the spine and back cover, not price clipped 15s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Condition: good, good. First American Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 308, tape marks to boards and endpapers, bookplate has been removed from rear endpaper, some wear and soiling to DJ.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. Subject: World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, New Zealand 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. Subject: World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, New Zealand 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Pitcher and the Well. McDonald, J. D. (Edited by Squadron Leader). Hardcover, good condition, foxed and tanned, dust jacket marked and scuffed edges. Publisher: Paul's Book Arcade, 1961. A very moving narrative of World War II, dictated to a fellow POW in a German Prisoner of War Camp by a New Zealand bomber navigator, lying in hospital bed suffering from burns which eventually killed killed him.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. One of the most sensitive and moving narratives of World War II, this book was dictated to a fellow P.O.W. in a German prison camp by a New Zealand bomber navigator, lying in a hospital bed, suffering from the burns which eventually killed him. The D/W has a tear/chip to the base of the spine which is also faded, and the corners show light shelf-wear. A good tight copy. PLEASE NOTE; International economy shipping is by sea and may take upto 90 days to arrive.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Some foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; 224 pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 211 x 134mm. World War Two, letters of a New Zealander who was a navigator of a British bomber. "The publisher first head of this manuscript early in 1944 when Squadron Leader J. McDonald read him some pieces of the manuscript which he had received not long before in a large parcel labelled 'Effects of deceased prisoner of war'. Ever since the publisher has been urging its publication. For here is one of the most extraordinary narratives of the war. Dictated to a fellow P.O.W. by a New Zealand navigator lying in a prison hospital bed and suffering from burns which eventually caused his death, these letters tell the writer's story. [. . .] He was a brilliant navigator, and he found in association with the fellow-members of the aircrew - all well depicted - a steadiness of purpose he had previously failed to discover." - from dust-jacket blurb.…