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Hanoi Release John Nasmyth
by Loy, Virginia Nasmyth; Nasmyth, Spike
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0961399104
- ISBN 13
- 9780961399108
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
V Parr Pub, 1984. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1984 signed and inscribed first / limited edcition, V. Parr Publishing (Santa Paula, California), 6 x 8 3/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, , pale blue endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, xiii, 345 pp. plus collection of period press clippings laid in. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author, Virginia Nasmyth, on the blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very slightly chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~The story of how John Nasmyth and his fellow POW's survive the Hanoi Hilton (the infamous Vietnamese POW camp) and how Nasmyth's sister kept his plight alive in the minds of their fellow Americans.
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JJ-1222-13292
- Title
- Hanoi Release John Nasmyth
- Author
- Loy, Virginia Nasmyth; Nasmyth, Spike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0961399104
- ISBN 13
- 9780961399108
- Publisher
- V Parr Pub
- Place of Publication
- Ojai, California, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1984
- X weight
- 27 oz
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Flamingo Books
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