Joseph Lewis
Seller Rating: 4
Location: Berkeley, CA
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1842120905 1st Reprint Edition 2000 Phoenix Press (London, England) Trade Paperback; text [...]
1842120905 1st Reprint Edition 2000 Phoenix Press (London, England) Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; appears UNREAD; color cover surface near mint/edges smooth w/mild corner wear; spine strong + uncreased; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 240 pages; introduction; 4 parts/29 chapters; author biography; color front cover art is 1945 watercolor "Marlag 'O' in winter" by John Worsley w/wrap-around design by Andrea Purdie; "certain pages in this book, especially those about being questioned while on the run, still make my blood run cold...dozens of accurate + perceptive images stop one in one's tracks"--Observer; "arguably the best POW book ever written"--The Times; "a wonderfully impartial, unjudging account of the way feelings + imagination are shrunk + benumbed in a cramped + crowded world"--London Rev of Bks; gift quality copy of 8-year-old British paperback.
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$12.38
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