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New York: Bantam Books [1981]. Good. 1981. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0553135813 . First edition thus. "The heroic story of a desperate battle against the German Army". Listed as non-fiction "this is a true story, though a few minor names have been changed". Pictorial wrappers, 215+ pages, illustrated. Good or better copy [spine slightly faded and somewhat cocked with a crease, reading crease to the the front cover which has "read 99" printed by hand to the upper right corner, squiggle to the top of the first page, cheap paper tanning]. .
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COMMANDO FORCE 133 [originally titled ISLAND OF TERRIBLE FRIENDS]
by Strutton, Bill [drawings by Tom Beecham, M. Stephen Bach and Bob Correa, maps by Alan McKnight]
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Island Of Terrible Friends
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W. W. Norton, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.
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Island of Terrible Friends
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Hodder, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. Second Impression. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier foxing to text block edges. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
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Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Biro -- Front Cover. author's note. Map illustrated endpapers, the larger showing the western Mediterranean area and a small map of Yugoslavia and it is small offshore islands. Navy blue coloured cloth boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Biro, with brown and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Novelisation of the events that occurred to Dr James Rickett and his other compatriots on the small Yugoslavian island of Vis in the years 1944 through to the end of World War II. Vis was an island surrounded by a German occupied territory and was expected to fall to the Germans at any moment. The island was protected by Yugoslavian partisans and 50 commandos. Dr Rickett went there to set up a hospital, and did so, despite red tape, no supplies and little outside help. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book…
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ISLAND OF TERRIBLE FRIENDS.
by STRUTTON,, Bill.
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, Australia
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London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1961.. 192pp. 8vo. Original boards in lightly chipped dustwrapper. Minor foxing to edges. Decorated endpapers. A very good copy. . First edition.
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Island Of Terrible Friends
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. A true story about Major James Rickett and the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Blue cloth, gilt text on spine. Endpaper Maps. 192pp. Minor fading to spine extending to part of front cover, gilt crisp. Internally clean with square, tight binding. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Island of Terrible Friends
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New York: W. W. Norton, 1962. First American Edition. First? Printing. good, fair. 22 cm, 192, endpaper map, DJ worn, soiled, edge wear, and small edge tears, DJ pasted to boards, masking tape on lower portion of spine. Story of the savagery in the Balkans in World War II. The story of a rugged, wild, fanatically brave band of men who fought off the Nazis in a bloody struggle among the islands off the Dalmatian coast. South Australian writer's story of the defence of Vis in Yugoslavia from the Germans during World War II by Force 133, and the establishment of a hospital base on the island.
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Island of Terrible Friends. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by STRUTTON Bill
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Hodder & Stoughton,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps, lengthy inscription on half-title; black cloth, a very good, bright, firm copy in unclipped, mildly sunned dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Biro. Major James Rickett of RAMC was posted to the small Mediterranean island of Vis to run a hospital in the midst of the bitter Yugoslav campaign. UNCOMMON. Enser, p.482.
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Island of Terrible Friends.
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Hardback. 1961. 192pp endpaper maps 1961. *Yug. 808: A vivid narrative of the desperate defence of the island of Vis, by Partisans & Commando troops, against the German onslaught. VG in DW .
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Island of Terrible Friends
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. 1st edition. Near Fine. octavo. dust jacket 192pp., ep maps, South Australian Medical Officer with Force 133, a Commando troop & Jugoslav partisans holding the island of Vis. Very nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce
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