Published by Hutchinson London 1953, 1953
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint orig. cloth Very Good 8vo. 400pp., frontis., colour & b/w plates, maps, plans, One of the most detailed & remarkable escape books ever written. Many diagrams & plans of tunnels etc. lacks front end paper o/w a very good copy.
Published by Hutchinson London 1953, 1953
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st ed. thus dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 400pp., frontis., colour & b/w plates, maps, plans, One of the most detailed & remarkable escape books ever written. Many diagrams & plans of tunnels etc. covering the Authors' eight remarkable escapes from German POW Camps. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Cuneo, T.T.; Holloway, Cyril; Osmond, Edward; Brock, H.M.; Treslian, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 117-176 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: Forty-Eight Days Adrift! - after being torpedoed, nine Norwegian seamen spent weeks adrift; Three Mean Killers; Revenge! - in 1916 North Bay, Ontario Pole Leo Leopold vows to get Detective Fred Fefbyre when he gets out of prison; The Fatal Watch; Lost Mines; Cowboys Adrift - two youngsters from a Cariboo, British Columbia ranch make their first trip to Vancouver; Deck Passage; The Ming Jar - what happened after the author purchased a choice piece of porcelain; "Prickly Pete"; The Relapinawa Buffalo - an outlaw buffalo terrorizes an entire Ceylonese district; The Yellow Box; The Amateurs; The Finger of Fate; The Interlopers - an Australian cattle drover story; Adventures with Polar Bears; and more. Above-average wear to front cover and back strip so front cover holding loosely. Small bit of sticker remnant on front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy.