Outwitting the Hun: My Escape From a German Prison Camp
by O'BRIEN, PAT
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
William Heinemann 1918. Scarce UK First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, black motif to boards, xii + 266pp, 6pp adverts, VG (light fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light soiling to boards, two small patches of fading to boards, light foxing & moderate browning to page edges, light browning to eps, very light sporadic foxing thoughout)
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 223220
- Title
- Outwitting the Hun: My Escape From a German Prison Camp
- Author
- O'BRIEN, PAT
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann 1918
- Keywords
- Autobiography World War One WW1 history military Germany Prisons prisoner of war POW
Terms of Sale
Hard To Find Books
Fast and professional shipping. All stock is returnable within seven days of receipt if it does not match description.
About the Seller
Hard To Find Books
Biblio member since 2004
DUNEDIN, Auckland
About Hard To Find Books
New Zealand's largest Bookdealer.We stock:History, First Editions, Military,Science, Law, Car manuals, Antiquarian, Genealogy, New Zealand, Travel, Art, Politics, Royalty, Aviation, Science, Technology, Humanities, Sport, Nautical,Poetry, Literature etc
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...