The Escape from Singapore
by Gough, Richard
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 997164181X
- ISBN 13
- 9789971641818
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Singapore: Heinemann Asia, 1988. Minor fading to spine ans slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, a previous owner's name and date (2003) and an old price in ink on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Originally published in hardback in the UK in 1987, this is a paperback reprint from Singapore the next year. Deals with the events of February-March 1941 when over 100 local vessels evacuated over 10,000 troops and civilians from Singapore to Sumatra just before the city fell to the Japanese. 246pp, 12pp b&w illustrations, 4 maps.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012999
- Title
- The Escape from Singapore
- Author
- Gough, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 997164181X
- ISBN 13
- 9789971641818
- Publisher
- Heinemann Asia
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- WW2, Fall-of-Singapore,
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY / Military / World War II;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
Biblio member since 2004
Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...