Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1957
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
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 Bantam Pathfinder Edition, Great Britian, England, UK., 1970
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Painted Cover (illustrator). 41 Edition By Publisher. 150 pgs. >> One of the finest war novels ever written! By renouned author of Planet of the Apes! Basis for one of the greatest war movies of all time! " It tells the story of three remarkable men who survived the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway. Colonel Nicholson - a man who was prepared to sacrifice his life. but not his dignity. Major Warden - the saboteur. A kindly, modest hero. a deadly killer. Commander Shears - a man who escaped from hell. and was ordered back." Painted cover! >>Pen & staining to front cover; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Published by Time Incorporated, New York, 1964
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
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.
Published by Fontana Books/Collins., Great Britian, England, UK., 1968
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: FINE+, Near New. Painted Cover (illustrator). 18th Printing by Publisher. 189 pgs. >> One of the finest war novels ever written! By renouned author of Planet of the Apes! Basis for one of the greatest war movies of all time! " It tells the story of three remarkable men who survived the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway. Colonel Nicholson - a man who was prepared to sacrifice his life. but not his dignity. Major Warden - the saboteur. A kindly, modest hero. a deadly killer. Commander Shears - a man who escaped from hell. and was ordered back." Painted cover! >> Un-read copy.Minor sticker residue to front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Very good in lightly worn dust jacket with marginal tears Cloth Jacket lighty soiled.
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.
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 Secker & Warburg., London., 1967
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Hard. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of first English language editio. Very good. Lacking dust jacket. 170pp.
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.
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 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.
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 Penguin Books, London, Great Britain., 1975
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Ian Vaughan Photo Cover. (illustrator). Third Edition by Publisher. 174 pgs. translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Basis for the Movie "Planet of the Apes"! RARE Classic book! >>This is a reading copy. Cover creasing. paper pull to interior front cover (envelope removed); pen on title page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by Fontana / Collins, London, 1956
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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 Bantam
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Published by Penguin Books, London, Great Britain., 1970
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD Minus. Ivan Atsnsdoff cover design. (illustrator). Reprint Edition. 174 pgs. translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Basis for the Movie "Planet of the Apes"! RARE Classic book! >>Cover creasing. staining to front cover Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.
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 Penguin Books, 1966
ISBN 10: 0140024018 ISBN 13: 9780140024012
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Victor Brauner; (illustrator). Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 0.25.
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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.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. dustwrapper. 316pp. light edge wear to wrapper and a little discolouration to the same otherwise a good copy.
Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1955
Seller: The Secret Bookshop (FREE POSTAGE IN NZ), Tararua, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some foxing to the prelims, closed page edges and jacket. Small inscription twinked out using vivid. The jacket is price clipped with one short closed tear to the rear. Book store stamp.
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, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
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.