The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, First Edition (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred menevery one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic 1963 war film of the same name starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. "A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." Philadelphia Inquirer Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus (Crest Book S-436) of an early 1950s book about the incredible escape from a German prisoner of war camp - later made into the iconic movie. "They tunneled their way to freedom with nothing but guts, perseverance, ingenuity." Light edge wear. Book store stamp inside the front cover and on the FFEP. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Paperback. first PB. 436, very good +, (WORLD WAR 2 STORY), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards have scuffing along the edges. The binding is secure. Browning along the edges of the pages. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations. r*22/05/2025 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair/Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINT OF FIRST EDITION, 1951, lacks dust jacket. Some soiling to orange boards includes 2cmx2cm tipp-Ex stain (oddly enough in the shape of a bird) a couple of smaller stains on front and back, faint part of coffee ring, corners bumped, edges tanned, toning to end papers, some pages folded over at top, pages are clean, binding is tight, all photos and illustrations present. Grading commensurate with age of book & book is priced accordingly (first editions with DJs start at £100). Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2nd impression same month as first, Decent clean copy with neat ownership name and date to top of fep. The original dustwrapper is in fair condition with half inch loss to top spine and smallish losses to bottom spine and front corner. Unclipped at 10s 6d.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition. DJ in archival cover one corner bumped edge ware price clipped. letter from the publisher laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Published: 1951. 1st Edition / 2nd Impression. DESCRIPTION: DJ over red cloth with blue titles to spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Loss of colour to upper and lower edges. Rubbed cloth. Tightly bound with minor smudges to intact endpapers and strong hinges. Light spotting to text block edges with a few marks and spots seeping on to page margins. DJ Condition: Poor: Repair to length of front spine edge to verso. Repair to upper spine edge. Tear to lower spine edge. Wear and small losses to corners. Heavy wear to fold over edges. Unclipped. In protective wrapper. Pages 263. Size: 20.5cm by 13.5cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Papered boards over brown quarter-cloth with silver and gilt spine titling. Light edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. No jacket. Bookplate at front paste down. Interior else clean, pages lightly toned, text unmarked.

8vo. Pp: xix, 223. First Edition Thus. Publisher's green slipcase. Publisher's black boards covered in green cloth at front board with black and white illustrations, lettered in green and white at spine. Colour illustrations. As New.

8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 16 pages of coloured and monochrome illustrations, illustrations in the text and printed endpapers; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in cream and black, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case, the latter lightly marked on lower surface. Illustrated with photographs from the Imperial War Museum and National Archives, together with original colour sketches by captive Ley Kenyon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill. Publisher: Faber & Faber, London. First edition, 4th impression March 1951, same month and year as first impression. Good hardback with torn jacket. Red cloth boards rubbed at edges with minor bumping. Spine a little faded and compressed at ends. No inscriptions, pages lightly tanned with the odd foxing spot, minor marks. Non price-clipped jacket is complete although foxed, rubbed, chipped and torn with some fading and loss to spine area. The Great Escape is an insider's account by Australian writer Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited. Limited Edition. Limited To 80 Copies. Introduction By George Harsh.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1951 first impression, worn and torn dust jacket has loss and is in a protective sleeve, gift inscription, foxing to the page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill, Faber and Faber Limited, 1951, First Edition, First Impression Adapted for film in 1963, this book provides an insider's account of the March 1944 mass escape from the Nazi German Luftwaffe prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. Brickhill was also a prisoner of war at this camp and helped with the escape plan but was barred from the actual escape on the grounds that he suffered from claustrophobia. There is a neat owners name to the front end paper and a small bookstore sticker to the rear of the front board. In near fine condition, the binding is straight and tight., the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. The end papers and pages are free from marks and tears. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in good condition with loss to all the corners, loss to the edge of the front cover, loss, nibbling and a tear to the top edge of the front cover, nibbling to the bottom edge of the front cover, loss to the top edge of the spine, nibbling to the bottom edge of the spine, wear to the edge of the spine, a tear and small nick to the top edge of the darkened back cover and a small tear to the edge of the back cover. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.

FIRST EDITION 8vo. salmon pink cloth hardback in unclipped dust jacket. 263pp., illustrated with diagrams, a map and b/w plates. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Occasional light foxing, heavier to prelims. Light foxing and soiling to dust jacket with a few small chips to top and base of spine. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. (Shelf 2) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE OF 10s. 6d INTACT, SEVERAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 6 INCHES WITH 263 PAGES. LOSS TO JACKET AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH A CLOSED TEAR TO TOP FRONT LEFT OF JACKET, FEW MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, SMALL FAINT STAIN TO CLOTH BOARDS EITHER SIDE AT TOP OF SPINE, FRONT HINGE COCKED SLIGHTLY FORWARD, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY BROWNED, MINOR FOXING TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1951 hardcover with dust jacket. 1st ed. The book is in very good condition. clean, square and tight. some pages foxed, most are not. prev owners name on inside front cover. The dust jacket is the Berthold Wolpe version. clean and bright. chipped and bumped to extremities. see photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ley Kenyon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Faber & Faber, Inc. London, UK. 1954. 263 pages. This title was first published in 1952l however in 1954, Faber & Faber released the sixth printing in a variant DJ designed by the legendary Berthold Wolpe, in a red-letter DJ. The book was dedicated to The Fifty. As a result of its limited print run, this variant DJ has gained the attention of collectors. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. Red cloth panels are bright and clean. Endpapers are bright and clean. Small, faint, translucent scuff to cloth on front (barely.) Original variant DJ with 12s 6d net price intact on flap. DJ shows minimal, minor rubbing along edges; minor faint soiling on rear of DJ. Page edges show minimal, faint soiling. The story as you know, is the basis of the classic Steve McQueen film of the same name, from 1963. Loosely laid in is an uncommon Faber & Faber promo postcard of the 1954 edition, in its uncommon Wolpe-designed, red-letter DJ.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. First edition, as stated on copyright page. Book fine. Dust jacket very good, minor wear.

8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8, 6 illustrations and plans (5 full-page) and full-page map in the text; salmon cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The original account of arguably the greatest POW story of WWII - the escape of no fewer than seventy-six Allied POW's from Stalag Luft III at Sagan in March 1944. Known ever since as the 'Great Escape', it was a gallant endeavour with a sordid ending, and has inspired a minor industry of research and publication, including John Sturges' immensely successful (though heavily fictionalised) feature film of 1963 starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough. For a more recent update (incorporating the latest official documentation) see Burgess's 'The Longest Tunnel' (1990). AN UNDISPUTED CLASSIC OF WWII AND VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.

8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8, 6 illustrations and plans (5 full-page) and full-page map in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'barbed-wire' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The original account of arguably the greatest POW story of WWII - the escape of no fewer than seventy-six Allied POW's from Stalag Luft III at Sagan in March 1944. Known ever since as the 'Great Escape', it was a gallant endeavour with a sordid ending, and has inspired a minor industry of research and publication, including John Sturges' immensely successful (though heavily fictionalised) feature film of 1963 starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough. For a more recent update (incorporating the latest official documentation) see Burgess's 'The Longest Tunnel' (1990). AN UNDISPUTED CLASSIC OF WWII AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1951. A very good book with eraed name to the front pastedown - some fading to the boards and a little spotting to the page block. In a very good dust wrapper with a little wear to the corners and spine tips and creasing. One neat closed tear to the top of the front panel - thin stain to the top of the rear panel. Paul Brickhill's "The Great Escape" remains a significant part of modern culture through its enduring influence on films, TV, and literature. The 1963 film adaptation is a classic, spawning iconic scenes and inspiring countless prison escape dramas. The phrase "The Great Escape" is a metaphor for audacious efforts. Brickhill's book set a standard for recounting wartime heroism, and the story continues to be commemorated in events and documentaries. It has left an indelible mark, keeping the memory of the real-life escape attempts alive and serving as a symbol of human resilience in the face of adversity.