Die like the Carp!: The Story of the Greatest Prison Escape Ever
by Gordon, Harry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0726932434
- ISBN 13
- 9780726932434
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell Australia, 1978. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 240pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs and pictorial endpapers. First edition, first printing. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to insiode of front and rear boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. Front panel and spine of jacket sunned. Pages lightly toned as per usual with this edition. A clean, square, unmarked copy in complete jacket. Very good+ in a near very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010278
- Title
- Die like the Carp!: The Story of the Greatest Prison Escape Ever
- Author
- Gordon, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0726932434
- ISBN 13
- 9780726932434
- Publisher
- Cassell Australia
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- World War II, Japanese Prisoner of War - Australia, Prison Breaks, POW Escapes, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.