Trap by Billany Dan (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Integral damage to binding e.g. cover coming away, no spine, chunks of pages falling out. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Rip to the cover (or dustjacket if hardback), or significant tearing to pages. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Panther Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, ink name, browning. War drama. Panther 1106. Photo on request.

Condition: Good. 1960. Panther Edition. 315 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. paperback, 380pp, pages browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0571138012.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards are worn and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd impression. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 380pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed.Previous owner's inscriptions.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 380pp. In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth a little dull, lightly rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges lightly toned. Previous owner's name on lightly tanned endpapers. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, lightly chapped at edges, chipped on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A passionate novel of an uncompromising young man and his early years in Cornwall and of the girl he met there and the hard times her family endured between the wars.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Price clipped. dj worn at edges. A piece missing from top of dj spine. Previous owners name on front free end paper.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 380 pages. 7.80x4.96x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A rare and poignant piece of Second World War literature, The Trap is Dan Billany's acclaimed autobiographical novel written while held as a POW in Italy before his mysterious disappearance in 1943. Capturing both working-class Cornish life and the brutal realities of the North African campaign, it remains one of the most raw and authentic literary accounts of WW2. Serious collectors will recognize this 2nd Impression hardback as an exceptionally difficult title to source in collectible shape. Condition: The book is in good used condition with minor signs of reading and shelfwear. We try to be as transparent as possible with our photographs, and all major flaws are captured. From time to time we may miss something minor — please bear in mind that these are not new books.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. Cloth a little worn, spine dull, Foyle's label on flyleaf. Novel of second world war. 1A14.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1952. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Lightly toned, a little spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover orange cloth bds, silver lettering to spine, VG, sl. fading to spine, cover present in 3 parts, rear part with flap, front and front flap, some wear and small strip missing to btm of upper wrap, contents fine and tight, v. sl. tanning, pp380.

Condition: Good. 1952. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Lightly toned, a little spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), generally toned. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, some foxing at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Billany's novel of a young man's "early years in Cornwall, of the hard times which her family endured between the wars," published here without any revisions due to Billany's death in World War II.…

Condition: Good.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good but edge worn dw. Remains overall, quite a well preserved copy; tight, bright, clean and quite strong. Mylar sleeved. Uncommon in the dw. Scarce early novel. ; 380 pages; Description: 8vo. 380 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Literature. Genre: Fiction Novel. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. 380 pages. World War Two novel. A clean, straight book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book Condition, Fine: Very light signs of shelf wear across the dust jacket, bumping to its corners, slightest wear to its edges, minute tears at spine's corners. Otherwise excellent, artwork and lettering bright and vibrant. Creasing and slight curling to corners of publisher's original binding, a crease down its spine. Some spotting across the text block, particularly top edge, but mostly clean with crisp edges. Creased endpaper page, faint foxing through endpapers, otherwise pages are clean and tidy. Book remains tightly bound. First edition, published by Faber & Faber. A scarce and increasingly sought-after title, particularly when retaining its original dust jacket. Early Faber first editions from this period were produced in relatively modest print runs, and survival in complete, well-preserved condition is uncommon. Ex Libris (Peter Stevinson Watson). The Trap is a tense and atmospheric novel that explores the pressures and uncertainties of wartime Europe, combining tightly controlled suspense with psychological insight. Billany crafts a narrative driven by danger, moral complexity, and shifting loyalties, resulting in a compelling work of mid-century British fiction. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good but edge worn dw. Remains overall, quite a well preserved copy; tight, bright, clean and quite strong. Mylar sleeved. Uncommon in the dw. Scarce early novel. ; 380 pages; Description: 8vo. 380 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Literature. Genre: Fiction Novel. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback near fine, boards minor shelf wear, no annotations, dust jacket, unclipped, minor shelf/edge wear. Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, 1950, second impression. Dan Billany's The Trap, first published in 1950, still stands - in the opinion of M.R.D. Foot - as 'one of the most powerful English novels to come out of the [Second World War].' It echoes the wartime experiences of its author, who is believed to have died in 1943 while on the run from an Italian POW camp, but not before entrusting the manuscripts of The Trap to safekeeping. The book's narrator, army lieutenant Michael Carr, tells of his early years in Cornwall, of the girl he met and loved there, and of the hard times her family endured between the wars. These troubles and joys give way to the tragedy of war, and the book's narrative becomes one of comradeship, suspense and fighting in the North African desert. 'The Trap is an outstanding novel by a writer of natural genius. written with great force and honesty. profoundly impressive.' Times Literary Supplement. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The Trap by Dan Billany, Hardcover, UK Edition, 2nd Impression (1950). Book in very good condition, in an acceptable dust jacket, with the corner clipped but the price still shown (12s. 6d. net). The book has bumping to the spine ends and a spine lean, with ageing internally and to the page edges. The dust jacket shows wear and ageing, with nicks, tears and losses to the extremities. The dust jacket is now encased in a removable plastic sleeve. (See pictures). The author was a Prisoner of War of the Germans in World War II, captured in Africa and transferred to a POW Camp in Southern Italy. After the Italian capitulation in September 1943, he was released, and in December of that year was in Mantua. Manuscripts of this book were written in Italian exercise books, and left in the care of a friendly Italian farmer, who sent them to Billany's parents when the war was over. Billany was mortally wounded when trying to end the activities of an informer in the camp, and was buried near Fermo in 1945. The book was considered: 'Almost the only novel about the war of real literary power. written as a prisoner of war. the material is still raw'.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition copy of this powerful novel drawn from the author's experiences during the interwar period. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. The Trap follows the story of a young man during the interwar period, and is thought to be inspired by Dan Billany's own experiences. In 1942, Billany was taken as a prisoner of war in Southern Italy, and then released in 1943, but was never found and was presumed dead in 1944. The manuscripts of The Trap were left in the care of a farmer, and eventually sent to Billany's parents once the war was over. The Trap was published to great acclaim. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean but a little age toned, with spotting to the fore edge. Dust wrapper remains bright, but is a little chipped to the head and tail of the spine and sunned to the spine. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…