The Naked Island. With Drawings made in Changi Prison Camp by Ronald Searle. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by BRADDON Russell
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- Hardcover
- first
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Werner Laurie,, [1952]. 8vo., Third Impression, with tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned on (predominantly white) rear panel and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published two months after the first edition. The particularly striking dust-wrapper carries a dramatic illustration by Searle not repeated in the book. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.409 (recording the first edition).
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46054
- Title
- The Naked Island. With Drawings made in Changi Prison Camp by Ronald Searle. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- BRADDON Russell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Werner Laurie,
- Date Published
- [1952]
- Keywords
- military, ww2, wwii, far east, pow, changi, changhi, japan, singapore, braddon, russell braddon, searle, ronald searle
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