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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1943. War Edition. fair. 148, ink name inside front flyleaf, boards soiled, stained, and foxed.

London (Great Russell Street): Hammond, Hammond & Co, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 128pp. In beige cloth-covered boards. 12mo. Boards a little foxed, discoloured at edges and gently rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends. Pages a little tanned, and a couple of pages offset during manufacturing so now chapped at edges. Previous owner's name and withdrawn stamp on front free endpaper (but no other library markings). Slightly loose. A news reporter recounts his story of surviving a plane crash in the New Guinea jungle during the second world war.

United Kingdom: Hammond, Hammond & Company L. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. A good hardcover in an about good dustwrapper. The book is in clean beige boards soiled/foxed to the edges, no writing, tiny shop lable inside the front cover, unmarked ivory pages foxed/soiled to the text-block edges. The unclipped dustwrapper is very aged and soiled to the inside margin supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. A true story. News correspondent survives plane crash in the jungles of WWII New Guinea. Many hardships & brushes with death lead to spiritual awakening. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .

London: Hammond, Hammond & Co, 1944. 126pp. Or beige cloth, no jacket. Spine toned. For 42 days AP correspondent Haugland wandered in the jungle of New Guinea before he reached an Allied base.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo.

Hammond Hammond & Co.,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition; oatmeal cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges and with one closed tear. An AP correspondent alone in the jungle. SCARCE.

New York, Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1943., 1943. Good. War edition ; 3 pp. 1 leaf, 3-148 pp. ; 19 cm. ;LCCN: 43-6881 ; OCLC: 1403759 ; LC: DU740; Dewey: 940.542 ; beige cloth with red lettering ; no dustjacket ; Vern Haugland was awarded the silver star by Douglas MacArthur for his perseverance after having parachuted from an aircraft out of fuel over the unmapped jungles of New Guinea, later separated and alone, managed to return to an inhabited region near the coast without food for many days ; he later became the chief aviation correspondent for the Associated Press for 21 years until his death of a heart attack at the Sundowner Hotel in Reno, Nevada in September of 1984 ; much worn ; G

Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1943. Hardcover. Good. 0.8000 7.4000 5.0000.