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DETAILS ENCLOSED.
Edition: First printing.
Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson, (1958) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel, but one which closely and movingly mirrors his experiences as an Australian soldier who was separated from his unit in Greece, betrayed to the German and incarcerated as a POW in Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania & Germany, where he served as a medic (he describes the protaganist as a "medical student who had failed in every examination he sat for" p.18 ). SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 233 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages and the back cover of the dj, offsetting to the endpapers) Uncommon, especially so signed and inscribed.
Book ID: 87398More details Price: $50.00 -
THE SPECIAL PRISONER.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel about a man, a bishop now nearing retirement, who is taken back to the days when he was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. SIGNED bookplate attached to the half title page. ISBN: 0-375-503714.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19349More details Price: $15.00