Search Results: officially dead the story of commander by reynolds quentin

Pyramid, 1962. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House. dust jacket with chips and tear . Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd printing. 1945.

New York: Random House, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First printing stated. Hardcover in black cloth stamped in red. 244 pp. Very good, printed on the usual wartime thinner stock paper. In edgeworn dust jacket. True story of United States Navy Commander Columbus Darwin ("Smitty") Smith. At the outgraek of World War II, Smith was piloting a river steamer in China and quietly keeping official and hush-hush notes on big-time pirates, smugglers, and foreign spies who were operating more and more boldly along the China coast. After America entered the war, he donned his uniform openly; he was captured by the Japanese, escaped, re-captured and confined to an "escale proof" prison in Shanghi. He escaped again. By this time, to his family and associates, he was "officially dead" but actually continued as an operative for the Navy.

Cassell & Company, Ltd, London, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. The biography of Commander C.D. Smith, skipper of a Yangtze River steamer, Shanghai Harbour Pilot, Captain of the U. S. S. Wake, and a prisoner of war of the Japanese, who escaped on numerous occasions. Softening to the backstrip edges with bumping and fraying of the book corners. Heavy sunning to the backstrip with lighter sunning of boards along with a few marks. Browning of the text block edges and pages. Offset tanning to the endpapers. Previous owner's rubber stamp to the top right hand corner of the free front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], pre-243, [5] pages.. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under… Read More

London: Cassell & Co Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Spine faded. 1946. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 186pp. .

Random House, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Dust jacket lightly soiled, discolored with age. Rubbed and light chipping at edges, especially at the corners. Corners of boards bumped a bit. Pages lightly tanned. Text free from marks, highlighting and dogears. A solid pre-owned copy aging gracefully.

Random, 1945.. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (world war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese, american, personal narratives ) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

New York: Random House, 1945. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 244 pages; gentle bumps to spine ends and two cover corners, but not a trace of shelf wear, overall very gently used, neat two-line gift inscription in ink on free front endpaper, some pale faded old (coffee?) stains to several pages, otherwise clean and unmarked; DJ rubbed along all hinges, hevily chipped, several tiny tears, but intact and about 98% complete. See also our listing for Shanghai 1949 : The End of an Era.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Random House, New York, NY 1945. First Edition. 1st Printing. 244 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Size: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8. Prisoner of the Japanese. Military History::WWII Military History::Naval 6037

New York: Random House. Hardcover. 1945. 1st Edition. 8vo 244pp . Very Good+ in Good DJ. DJ damaged by silverfish. Smith was skipper of a Yangtze River steamer, harbor pilot, Captain of the USS Wake and the prisoner the Japs couldn't hold .

Syd.: Cassell. 1946. 1st Aust ed., pp. (vi), 244, pages browned, or. cl. sunned.

New York: Random House, (1945).. Fraying at head of spine, neat gift inscription in ink dated in year of publication, Very Good Minus in Very Good Dust Jacket. . Very Good Minus. Hardcover. First Edition.. 1945.

New York: Random House, 1945. First Printing. fair to good. 244, some weakness to boards, bookplate, some spotting on front board, some wear to board and spine edges. Commander C. D. Smith was the skipper of a Yangtze River steamer, Shanghai Harbor pilot, captain of the U.S.S. Wake, and the prisoner the Japanese could not hold.

Cassell & Company, 1946,. 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 186pp, page edges browning and scattered foxing, text otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Good / no dustwrapper. .

NY: RANDOM H0USE. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR: "TO KASIA, ALL THE BEST, QUENT." . VG. Hardcover. SECOND PRINTING. 1945.

New York, Random House [1945]., 1945. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Title page in red and black. Original black cloth stamped in red and gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.. F. Hardcover.