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Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1957
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. G/none, used pb, 150pp. Color illustrated stiff paper wraps with gold and red colored text on upper and white text on spine, edge wear with chips at head and tail of spine, rounded tips, rubbed overall. Interior pages are clean, unmarked except former owner's inked name on verso of upper. Binding is tight.
Published by Time Incorporated, New York, 1964
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. VG/none, used pb, x-xiv, 234 pages. Color illustrated stiff paper wraps, no chips, minimal edgewear, lower wrap has a 2 inch tear; wraps are very stiff and spine is not creased so not sure if book has ever been read. Interior pages are clean, unmarked, no highlighting or bends. Binding is tight.
Very good in lightly worn dust jacket with marginal tears Cloth Jacket lighty soiled.
Published by Secker & Warburg., London., 1967
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Book
Hard. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of first English language editio. Very good. Lacking dust jacket. 170pp.
Published by Fontana Books - Collins, London, 1968
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 189 pp. Fontana Book 1726. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Directed by David Lean, this was filmed in 1957, starring William Holden, Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, and a number of others. Book.
Published by Time, Inc., New York, 1964
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Roy Bailey (Cover Design) (illustrator). Copyright 1964. 234 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers.
Published by Signet, New York, NY, 1963
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The white covers have some very light generalized toning, and there is some light rubbing and edge wear to the covers. The text pages are clean and bright, though they have generalized light toning. "Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 30 January 1994) was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963) , that were both made into award-winning films. Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. The film, named The Bridge on the River Kwai, by David Lean won seven Oscars, and Boulle was credited with writing the screenplay, because its two actual screenwriters had been blacklisted." (from Wikipedia).
Published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1967
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First US Edition. The Vanguard Press , NY , 1967 First US edition 175 page hardcover in dust jacket. A near fine copy with light wear in like dust jacket. See Photos clph E.
Published by NY Vanguard Press (1967)., 1967
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
VG in VG- DJ. DJ chipped, torn. How far will a frustrated photographer go to get an exclusive shot, take part in an assassaination plot? 1st ed.
Published by Time Incorporated, 1964
Seller: East Aurora Bookworm, East Aurora, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Picture is of actual book, not stock image. Book is in fair condition with some chips out of the corners and the front cover is held on by tape. The binding is tight and the pages have some light spotting along the outer edge.
Published by Fontana / Collins, London, 1956
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Film tie-in edition, with ad for the movie to rear cover. Front cover blurb: "Suspense and sabotage behind the Jap lines". Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Handling wear, mild marginal toning, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 189pp. SB-81.
Published by Vanguard Press January 1956, 1956
Seller: Colorado's Used Book Store, Englewood, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Covers clean and unmarked, light edge and corner wear. Pages clean and tight, lightly tanned. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.
Published by Published by Bantam Pathfinder April . 1963., 1963
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Publisher's original colour illustrated period art work card wrap covers. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Just a little tanning to the page edges, without any ownership markings and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).
Published by London: Collins Fontana Books 151 March 1958 Fourth Fontana Paperback Printing, London, 1958
Seller: N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG. Light edgewear, slight stress to top front corner, otherwise a solid copy, clean throughout. Front cover art by John Rose. Rear cover shows poster from the movie starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins and Alec Guinness.
mass market paperback. Condition: good; used. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES 12mo; 150 pages; good mass market paperback; tanned pages; tips bumped with fray or chip; few slight nicks to cover edges; small stain for eedge; slight scuffs to cover; tanned inside covers; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.
Published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1970
Seller: David H. Gerber Books (gerberbooks), Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club. 191pp printing code of 33L at bottom of a rear page indicates August 1970 printing [short, closed tears and mild chipping to dust jacket; 1970 ink ownership on front free endpaper] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Vanguard Press,
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2.
Published by Vanguard Press,
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.2.
Published by London: Secker and Warburg., 1959
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First English edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Ann Reason illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (18s net to the lower front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, London, 1954
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small missing piece to middle of spine, corners rubbed with small loss, but overall fab retro jacket bright and unsunned. not price clipped (10s 6d), small previous owner's name to ffep, some offsetting to endpapers, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 171pp. The semi fictional story of the POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma Siam railway. Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity, Major Warden a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer, Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was sent back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead, at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command. David Lean made the motion picture that won seven 1957 Oscars, including the Best Picture, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness. Boulle (1912-94), himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and, by his own admission, not even speaking English. Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. Boulle was neither a socialist nor a communist. The Motion Picture Academy added Foreman's and Wilson's names to the award in 1984. Kim Novak accepted the Oscar on behalf of Pierre Boulle. Translator Xan Fielding (Major Alexander Wallace Fielding DSO 1918-91), was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as a Special Operations Executive agent in Crete, France and the Far East during World War II. He is now remembered for his part in the abduction of German General Kreipe on Crete with Paddy Leigh Fermor. A scarce book.
Published by London: Secker and Warburg., 1954
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First English edition, first printing. Original green cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near very good copy, the binding firm, the corners bumped, the cloth rubbed and with some wrinkling to the slightly rolled spine. The contents, with a bookplate to the front pastedown and seemingly issued without a front endpaper, has a couple of tiny ink spots to the text block fore-edge and some spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which has a number of closed tears and some loss at the base of the spine. Not price-clipped (10s 6d on the front flap). The first impression is quite scarce. A novel about prisoners of war labouring on a railway bridge in Burma during World War II. Though the novel is fictionalised and features no real people as characters, Boulle drew from his own experience of forced labour during World War II and from the real construction of the Burma or "Death" Railway by prisoners of war under the control of the Japanese Imperial Army. The basis for the 1957 Academy Award winning film of the same name, directed by David Lean, starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.