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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK Hardback First Edition, First Printing 1954. Condition : A very good book with some creasing to the spine tips. There is some toning to the edge of the text block and some shadowing to the endpapers. Some fading to the top of the spine. The dust jacket is very good , wear and rubs to the extremities and some chipping and loss to the spine tips. All books are securely packaged for safe shipping. A refund is available if the book is not as described.* Further images available on request**.
Published by Allan Wingate 1954, 1954
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Allan Wingate
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Undated.The boards are worn and sunned.Tanning.Ownership inscription.Well bound.Fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Allan Wingate, London, 1954
Seller: Boojum and Snark Books, Kanab, UT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition (no date, but 1954 per WorldCat), with dustcover: book and dustcover very good plus. Green paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 7 1/2 x 5 1/8, 178 pp. Modest spine slant; previous owner's name written neatly in ink, front free endpaper (date 24th February 1954); offsetting to endpapers; otherwise, pages clean and binding strong. Dustcover with moderate edgewear, including two 5/16 inch chips at the lower spine end; not price-clipped; in a mylar jacket. "Anthony Charles Faramus (27 July 1920 August 1990) was an actor, author and hairdresser. He was born in Saint Peter, Jersey and died in Surrey. The autobiographical accounts of his survival of Fort de Romainville, Buchenwald and the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex were published as The Faramus Story in 1954 and Journey into Darkness in 1990. Two books about Agent Zigzag, the double agent Eddie Chapman, also document aspects of Faramus's 'ruse' to join the Nazis as a collaborator and a spy, his imprisonment in Jersey, Paris and the concentration camps." (K086).
Published by Allan Wingate, London No date
Seller: Turn The Page Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Nazi extermination camp autobiography. 178 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; 1940s; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51564.
Published by Allan Wingate, London
Seller: Phoenix Books NZ, Waimate, CANTE, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The Faramus Story Being the Experiences of Anthony Charles Faramus presented by Frank Owen with a foreword by Eddie Chapman. Publisher: Allan Wingate, London No date. (1954). Good hardback with fair jacket. Green cloth boards have some fading and a little bumping to spine ends and edges. Name to ffep. Pages tanned with foxing to end-papers and edges. Binding firm. Jacket is rubbed, creased, chipped and marked with some loss to front section and spine. (not price-clipped). 178 pages.
Published by Allan Wingate, [1954], 1954
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, dustwrapper panels mounted on new and separate leaves at front, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the scarce and harrowing account of the Jerseyman's capture, imprisonment and torture in Fort de Romainville near Paris, and later at Mauthausen. Striking dustwrapper artwork by Michael Ayrton.