Prisoners Progress by James David (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy of the scarce first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edge sand corners, corners bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing and some light foxing.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Spine lettering faded. 1954. The autobiography of a WW2 member of the British Royal Navy bluffing his way out of the Marlag prisoner of war camp 176.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. First published by Blackwoods in 1947 and then by Hollis & Carter in 1954. Undated but this was published in 1958. Covers nice and bright with light edge rubbing and a half inch surface tear at the base of the spine - not very noticeable. Light edge wear to spine. Some spotting to insides of covers. Pages browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd edition . With an Introduction by Eric Williams. 2nd edition, 1954. Bright red top page edges. Publication of 176 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and small chipped pieces. The boards are slightly marked on the spine, the boards remains strong and in good condition. There is little foxing on the block of the book. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing Octavo Hardback Blue cloth gilt xii + 164 pp. 4 maps and plans Good + condition. No inscriptions. P.O.W. escape.

2nd Edition. 2nd edition, 1954. Light scattered foxing. Binding tight. Red cloth slightly faded on spine and at edges of rear board; dull gilt lettering on spine. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Likely ex-military library - likely lighter use with corresponding military stamp. Likely condition is Fair-Good if not stated. All other info as listed. NB note this is a placeholder description and my entire list is being regularly updated with photographs and information. Please enquire for further details for this copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. A Prisoner's Progress. By David James MBE DSC. Introduction by Eric Williams MC. Hard covers with dust jacket and both are in good condition. 2nd Edition 1954.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. vi-xi, 176pp; maps to eps., red pictorial d/j, spine tanned and title faded, light edgewear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

2nd edition dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo xi + 176pp., maps, plans, Memories of POW life & escapes, inc. Marlag, Lubeck & Danzig. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down o/w a nice copy.

Second edition. Signed and inscribed by David James to Eric Williams, the author of the work's introduction. Publisher's original red cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Red top-stain. Illustrated with four maps and plans, including the endpapers. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a touch of bumping to the top corners. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the near fine pictorial dustwrapper which has some faint spotting to the spine panel and minor shelf wear to the extremities. Not price-clipped (9s. 6d. net to the front flap). An excellent copy. Signed and inscribed in blue ink on the title page by David James "For Eric Williams / from a fellow practitioner. / David James / Jan 27th 1958." After his vessel was sunk in action off the Hook of Holland in February 1943, James and three of his crew were rescued from the water by a German trawler and subsequently sent to Marlag O, the naval prisoner-of-war camp near Westertimke. His first attempt at escape came in December 1943, when he slipped out of the shower block on a foggy morning, then crossed Germany wearing his full British naval uniform, but with forged papers identifying him as "I. Bagerov" of the Bulgarian Navy (a name chosen as a joke, so that when asked who he was he could reply "Bugger off"). James made it as far as the port of Lübeck and had made contact with the crew of a Swedish ship willing to smuggle him out of the country before he was arrested, and returned to the camp. His second escape in late 1944 used the same method, relying on the corrupt shower-block guards not to report their own short head-count. James again headed for the Baltic coast, posing as a merchant seaman, and this time made it to Sweden. His successful escape earned him an OBE and a position at the Naval Intelligence Division where he lectured his colleagues on escape methods. Believing that his experience would be of no use in the Middle East where he was to be transferred, he joined Operation Tabarin (the secret British Antarctic wartime expedition) in 1944, wintering in Graham Land until January 1946. As a consequence of this, the James Nunatak was named after him by the British Antarctic Survey. After the war he worked as an adviser in the making of Charles Frend's classic feature film 'Scott of the Antarctic' (1948) starring John Mills, for whom he appeared as a body-double in a number of scenes. The present work details his wartime escapades, and relates in detail his daring, and sometimes humorous, escape missions. This second edition is the first to include Eric Williams's introduction. A nice association copy. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.