Island of Terrible Friends by Strutton, Bill - 1961

W. W. Norton, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

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.

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.

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… Read More

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.

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.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First Edition. States first printed 1961. Hard cover. 192pp. Book condition: Good. some fading, rubbing and discoloration to boards. Internally fine. Dust Jacket condition: Good. Tiny amounts of chipping to top and bottom of the back strip and leading corners. Not price clipped.

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 .

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