Chalker Jack Burma Railway Artist Tapa dura - 2000

Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Jack Chalker. IV, 136 pages, last page blank, foreword by Sir Edward ( 'Weary' ] Dunlop and index. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white drawings and sketches made by the author while a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II along the Burma-Siam Railway. Green coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing along the backstrip edges and book corners. Illustrated dustwrapper with ochre coloured titles to the front dustwrapper panel and ochre and black titles to the backstrip. Sepia toned photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper corners. After the fall of Singapore in 1942 the author became a prisoner of war of the Japanese. He spent that time in Singapore and in the Thailand-Burma railway camps. " during this time, in furtive secrecy, he made diary notes, sketches and paintings… Leer más

Hardcover. Very Good. UK stocked, available immediately. Hardcover, published by Viking in 1994. First edition. A lovely bright copy with unmarked contents. The unclipped dustjacket is in very good condition, with minor rubbing only. Illustrated.

Hardback. Very Good.