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Elmfield Press, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 267pp, not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated. Some rubbing to wrapper with some scuffing to edges, no fading or tears. Bright and clean internally with very little apparent wear. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.

The Bodley Head, London, 1952, Very Good Hardcover / Good Dustjacket, 267 pages, 5.5" x 8", edgewear and closed tears on priceclipped dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight.

Mayflower, 1977. vg. vg 1st Mayflower 1977 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Bodley Head Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. jacket is worn, torn and creased. edge wear and knocking on boards. heavy foxing and marks. gift inscription. mainly a reading copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

GB: Corgi (Transworld), 1955. T126. 2/-.. 1st Thus. Paperback. G++.

Bodley, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The boards are a bit rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and tightly bound. One inscription.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

The Bodley Head , 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. From the collection of Ex-Libris W.L.van Steun with his book-plate pasted in on the front free endpaper page. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is light foxing on the block of the book. The boards are in good condition. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: The Bodley Head, 1952 Copy in navy cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Inside of jacket cover is tanned. Jacket slightly chipped long edges. Black and white frontis of author detached and laid in. Sporadic ligh foxing to folio edges. Clean text.

St. Albans, Herts, UK: Mayflower Books. Very Good-. 1977. Paperback. 0583128173 . 236 pp. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Light spine crease. A true-life account of an amazing World War Two escape story. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Bodley Head,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 3 plates of maps in red and black, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, rear endpapers lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Striking wrapper artwork by Ley Kenyon (illustrator of Brickhill's 'The Great Escape). Captured in Greece during the evacuation, Driver Francis Jones spent the remainder of the war in a series of escape attempts covering Greece, the Greek Islands, Italy and Germany. A lone escaper with no 'X' or escape committee for support, his experiences against impossible odds makes an 'other ranks' escape story with a difference.

London: Bodley Head, 1952. 1st edition. Nice Copy. 8vo.. orig. cloth 267pp., frontis., maps, Author was a driver in WWll and captured in Italy. He describes his many unsuccessful attempts at escaping, and his partial successes, sometimes for a few hours, sometimes a few weeks, but always recaptured

London: The Bodley Head;, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. green cloth, 266, (1) pages, illustrated, port. frontis., 3 full page maps,ink sig on front free endpaper, d.j. is chipped and torn along top edge of front panel (see scan) In mylar protective d.j.,Jones made a series of personal escapes from German captivity beginning in Greece when the English were exacuating , and continued over a period of years until he was fianally liberated at the end of the war. His escapes covered, Greece, the Greek Islands, Italy and Germany -but he was always recaptured. Size: 8 Vo.,.

London, Bodley Head, 1952. First Edition. Hardback. Previous owner's annotation to front fly-leaf. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and somewhat dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 266 pages; Description: 266 p. Illus. 21 cm. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 --Prisoners and prisons, Italian / German. Escapes.

Elmfield Press, January 1974. Hardcover. Good/Fair.