Published by Hutchinson, 1955
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1955. Reprinted. 400 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour and black and white illustration plates throughout and maps. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Illustrations by W. Clough-Taylor. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Dedication to front pastedown and minor pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with mild marking and corner bumping. Spine sunned and tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled.
Published by Hutchinson and Co, 1953
Seller: Braintree Book Rack, Cohasset, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The jacket has a few tears. ; 400 pages.
Published by Hutchinson and Co, London, 1953
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. -------------Green cloth covers, 9 1/4" tall. 400 pages with maps, endpaper maps and illustrations.----------VERY GOOD CONDITION, light wear covers, signature and a 1989 date on flyleaf- - - no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. A name , address & stamp on first blank page no other writing or tears .
hardbavck reprint, 400pp, illustrations, maps, foxing on edges and endpapers, text clean and sound, green cloth, rubbed, corners bumped, Good / no dustwrapper.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1954
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 400 pages. Dj ripped and worn. Text foxed.
Hardcover. 1953, 3rd ed., hb, no dw, 8vo, illustrated, spine lettering faded, good only.
Published by Hutchinson & Co 1953, 1953
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Ex-library- rebacked, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1953
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. B/W Drawings (illustrator). Later. Both authors hold the M.B.E. honour. Illustrations are by Major W. Clough-Taylor. Frontispiece is b/w photo of Lauffen, Bavaria - 1940. Between them the authors made 9 attempts at escaping from German WWII priosoner-of-war camps, they finally achieved success after 5 years of trying. Prittie was captured in the `hold Calais to the last man' move of 1940, his revolver full of sand. 400 pages of ESCAPE adventures!! Lots of maps, both of routes taken, harbour lay-outs, prison details, etc. Three or four are in COLOUR. Some photos and some POW sketches. Cond: Lincoln green boards with gold titling. NO dust jacket. Pages starting sli. at title page and 285. Boards show light wear at top and bottom edges, plus corners, plus top and tail. No tears. No marks. Prev. owner's name in pencil on ffep. End papers are maps of Germany and its neighbours. All illus. are intact and in VG cond. Quote (p. 240): " To me it seemed endless. Three-quarters of an hour sitting at the bottom pulling the trolley back and filling up the bags and then the same amount of time digging at the face. Although when digging, we encountered only." Size: 8vo.
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1949
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Good. W. Cough-Taylor (illustrator). First edition first reprint hardback with a forword by Major-General Sir Victor Fortune, 1949, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - black cloth boards rubbed to edges, title to spine have faded. Internally clean. Binding tight; no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends and a little spotting to endpapers but text, maps, illustrations and maps to pastedown bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.
Published by Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd., London/ New York/ Toronto/ Melbourne/ Sydney/ Cape Town., 1953
Seller: Entelechy Books, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Escape to Freedom. By The Hon T.C.F. Prittie and Captain W. Earle Edwards. Hard covers in very good condition with dust jacket in good condition.
Published by Hutchinson., London., 1955
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 400pp, photos, maps, coloured, ep-map, plan, POW escape from Germany. Light wear with small Christmas label stuck to ffep. 950g.
Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60069829: 1949. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 400 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreux dessins et de nombreuses photos et cartes en noir et blanc et en couleur, dans et hors texte. Couverture se détachant. Eléments de la jaquette d'origine et un feuillet de voeux annotée encollés en pages de garde, avec quelques annotations. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, 1946
Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher Hutchinson, London 1946. First edition. 1st ed. Good condition. In black boards with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, wear to ends of spine. Pages tanned. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings or inscriptions.
Published by Hutchinson London, 1954
Seller: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
2nd imp. of title, 400pp, frontis and 6pp half tone photo ills., 6pp half tone and line drawings, 3 maps and 1 drawing in colour, 8 in text plans/diagrams, maps at eps (paste downs), drawings by Major W. Clough-Taylor, dark green cloth gilt, col'd pictorial dustwrapper by Ley Kenyon, after the fall of Calais in 1940, the authors' account of the bewilderment and demoralisation of capture, experiences in various prisoner-of-war camps and between them their nine attempts to escape, before final liberation over 4 years later, lightly rubbed at extrems., lower cnrs. a little bumped, edges sl. marked, 3 line ink inscr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., sl. loss at spine ends and top edge, spine a little sunned, internally repaired, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
Published by Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, London, 1953
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: fair. W. Clough-Taylor (illustrator). First? Printing. 400, illus., maps, front endpaper clipped, pencil erasure in several places, corners bumped, boards somewhat worn and soiled.
Published by Hutchinson & Co, 1949
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Signed
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hutchinson & Co 1949 reprint, signed. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.