Die like the carp!: The story of the greatest prison escape ever by Harry Gordon - 1978

Cassell Australia, 1978. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 240pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs and pictorial endpapers. First edition, first printing. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to insiode of front and rear boards. Not an ex-libris copy, from a private collection. Front panel and spine of jacket sunned. Pages lightly toned as per usual with this edition. A clean, square, unmarked copy in complete jacket. Very good+ in a near very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stanmore, New South Wales : Cassell Australia, 1979. 240 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs. "In the early morning of 5 August 1944, outside the little Australian township of Cowra, the greatest prison break in world history took place. More than 1100 Japanese prisoners of war took part, and 231 of them were killed; 334 of them actually escaped, and were captured over the ensuing nine days by posses of police, soldiers and local farmers. During the outbreak and the events which followed, four Australian soldiers were killed and another four were wounded. The whole bizarre episode was cloaked in secrecy at the time, and for many years afterwards." Minor browning to pages, light browning to edges of textblock, light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small tear, archivally taped, at top of rear hinge, very light rubbing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Australia: Cassell & Co, 1978 Copy in red cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Illustrated end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text and b/w plates.

Cassell Australia, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Stanmore, Aus.: Cassell. 1100 Japanese POWs attempt break-out from Australian camp in 1944; 231 killed, 334 escaped temporarily; nice copy . Near Fine. Hardcover. 3rd printing. 1978.

Cassell Australia 1978. 1978. Hardcover. 8vo hardcover 240pp index, b/w illus. good+, owner's name on fep, bookplate on title page. / very good faded d/w. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.