Language: English
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is a signed and inscribed first edition, first printing, of "Escape From Java: A novel of the dark days just after Pearl Harbor" written by Harvey Haislip and published in 1962 by Doubleday & Company out of Garden City, New York. A hardcover in dust jacket containing 334 pages. From the inside dust jacket flap, reading in part, "'Escape From Java' is an adventure novel about the gradual disintegration of the combined English, Dutch, Australian and American naval task force in the Java Sea just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor." Signed and inscribed by author in blue pen: "Good friends are not found every day; we are fortunate to have the Gregory's, - Georgia + Harvey Haislip, Los Altos, 1963." In worn dust jacket showing periodic small chips, short closed edge tears, and creases. The dust jacket is protected in a removable Brodart Plasti-Kleer mylar archival cover. Signed by Author(s).