You'll Die in Singapore
by McCormac, Charles D.C.M
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1954 London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1954 189 pp with a portrait of the author frontis and one map in text and one fold-out map. Captured at the fall of Singapore in 1942 this is an account of the author's escape from a Japanese prison camp on Singapore Island.thru Sumatra to Darwin, Australia. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, lightly foxed along page edges. Fold-out map is clean and intact. Half-title and frontis illustration have slight damage to bottom corner. Black cloth boards are intact with gold-stamping on spine faded. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400121
- Title
- You'll Die in Singapore
- Author
- McCormac, Charles D.C.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Publisher
- Robert Hale Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR LL SOUTHEAST ASIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War ll Southeast Asia;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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