t c f prittie earle edwards (20 résultats)

Etat : Good. 1955. Reprinted. 400 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour and black and white illustration plates throughout and maps. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Illustrations by W. Clough-Taylor. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Dedication to front pastedown and minor pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with mild marking and corner bumping. Spine sunned and tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 400 pages, names to flyleaf, page edges browned, some internal browning and spotting otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 267.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. -------------Green cloth covers, 9 1/4" tall. 400 pages with maps, endpaper maps and illustrations.----------VERY GOOD CONDITION, light wear covers, signature and a 1989 date on flyleaf- - - no dust jacket.

Etat : Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. Light spotting to end papers. Owner message to paste down. No DJ.

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good Hardback. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Reprint. A name , address & stamp on first blank page no other writing or tears .

hardcover. Etat : Good. Foxing to pages. Wear and tear to dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 400pp, photos, maps, coloured, ep-map, plan, POW escape from Germany. Light wear with small Christmas label stuck to ffep. 950g.

hardbavck reprint, 400pp, illustrations, maps, foxing on edges and endpapers, text clean and sound, green cloth, rubbed, corners bumped, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 400 pages. No dj. Light foxing. front board stained white.

Hardcover. 1953, 3rd ed., hb, no dw, 8vo, illustrated, spine lettering faded, good only.

in-8, 400 pp, mehrere teilw. farb. Tafeln, OLn. Flucht zweier Kriegsgefangener aus Deutschland in die Schweiz.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 400 pages. Dj ripped and worn. Text foxed.

Hardcover. Etat : Good-. Etat de la jaquette : None. 2nd Edition. Very dark green cloth covers with titles to spine.Covers are aged with rub and chipping to edges.Book is in read condition,no names or stamps.Illustrated with photographic plates,drawings and diagrams.,maps to paste downs and prelims. The true-life story of two allied prisoners of war imprisoned in Germany, and their numerous bids to achieve freedom. After 5 long years and 9 failed escape-attempts, Terence Prittie and Bill Edwards finally managed to slip out of the German barbed-wire and headed due south towards Switzerland. This beautifully illustrated account re-lives their amazing story in thrilling detail.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. Major W.Clough-Taylor (illustrateur). Foreword by Major-General Sir Victor Fortune. 400 pages. An enthralling record of escapes from German prisoner of war camps throughout five years of war. With 28 illustrations and maps. Also contains "the best and most human" accounts of life in prisoner of war camps in World War II that have "yet been published." Apart from some stains to fore-edges of pages, not affecting the text, the book has survived relatively well, but the dust-jacket is worn and has a portion of the spine missing.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Publisher Hutchinson, London 1946. First edition. 1st ed. Good condition. In black boards with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, wear to ends of spine. Pages tanned. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings or inscriptions.

2nd imp. of title, 400pp, frontis and 6pp half tone photo ills., 6pp half tone and line drawings, 3 maps and 1 drawing in colour, 8 in text plans/diagrams, maps at eps (paste downs), drawings by Major W. Clough-Taylor, dark green cloth gilt, col'd pictorial dustwrapper by Ley Kenyon, after the fall of Calais in 1940, the authors' account of the bewilderment and demoralisation of capture, experiences in various prisoner-of-war camps and between them their nine attempts to escape, before final liberation over 4 years later, lightly rubbed at extrems., lower cnrs. a little bumped, edges sl. marked, 3 line ink inscr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., sl. loss at spine ends and top edge, spine a little sunned, internally repaired, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

Couverture rigide. Etat : bon. RO60069829: 1949. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 400 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreux dessins et de nombreuses photos et cartes en noir et blanc et en couleur, dans et hors texte. Couverture se détachant. Eléments de la jaquette d'origine et un feuillet de voeux annotée encollés en pages de garde, avec quelques annotations. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Etat : VG. No Jacket. B/W Drawings (illustrateur). Later. Both authors hold the M.B.E. honour. Illustrations are by Major W. Clough-Taylor. Frontispiece is b/w photo of Lauffen, Bavaria - 1940. Between them the authors made 9 attempts at escaping from German WWII priosoner-of-war camps, they finally achieved success after 5 years of trying. Prittie was captured in the `hold Calais to the last man' move of 1940, his revolver full of sand. 400 pages of ESCAPE adventures!! Lots of maps, both of routes taken, harbour lay-outs, prison details, etc. Three or four are in COLOUR. Some photos and some POW sketches. Cond: Lincoln green boards with gold titling. NO dust jacket. Pages starting sli. at title page and 285. Boards show light wear at top and bottom edges, plus corners, plus top and tail. No tears. No marks. Prev. owner's name in pencil on ffep. End papers are maps of Germany and its neighbours. All illus. are intact and in VG cond. Quote (p. 240): " To me it seemed endless. Three-quarters of an hour sitting at the bottom pulling the trolley back and filling up the bags and then the same amount of time digging at the face. Although when digging, we encountered only." Size: 8vo.

Etat : fair. W. Clough-Taylor (illustrateur). First? Printing. 400, illus., maps, front endpaper clipped, pencil erasure in several places, corners bumped, boards somewhat worn and soiled.