The Boat by Gibson , Walter - 1952

Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd, 2007-11-15. Paperback. Used: Good.

W H Allen, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. First Edition. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black & white illustrations and plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened to spine.

New York: Popular Library Eagle Books, 1954. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. 1st printing. Front hinge loosening. 1954 Mass Market Paperback. The shocking story of a shipwreck, and what the survivors had to do to remain alive.

NY: Popular Library, 1954. Illustrated by John Groth. Slight wear. Photos on reqeust.. EB20, July First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Mass Market.

Allen. 1952 Good+/Good+.. DJ is rather grubby, with tarnish marks, rubbing and small associated loss to most edges. prior owner's details on front endpaper. pages are age-tanned, otherwise no significant faults. Octavo 194pp. Following the fall of Singapore the Dutch liner Rosenboom left Padang for Ceylon carrying on board nearly 500 evacuees who were mostly British civilians and soldiers. Shortly after leaving port the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank so rapidly that only one lifeboat floated into which 135 people were crammed. The boat drifted for 28 days and covered over 1,000 miles but when eventually it grounded near Sumatra, only the author and three others had managed to survive

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt lettering on blue-green covers in a pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 101pp.

London: W.H Allen, 1952. Faded Spine.....Please Email for further details. Signed By an "E.N. Howes". First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good +++/No Jacket. Illus. by Black & White Illustrations. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hardback.

Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd., 2007

London: W.H. Allen, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 96 pages, pages browned otherwise very good in rubbed otherwise very good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.