Buy this book on-line WAUGH, ALEC: : THE PRISONERS OF MAINZLONDON.CHAPMAN AND HALL,LTD.,1919. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.VG+,No owner inscrptn.Bright, crisp,remarkably clean and preserved with little - if much - discolouration and/or minor grubbing to generally sharp-cornered - both lower corners' tips minisculely bumped,front with reciprocal but minor creasing excepted,publisher's original,beige/ oatmeal cloth boards/covers,and a lightly grubbed paper title,author,publisher+date black printed letters within a red single- line bordered,label to clean spine/ backstrip.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks tears,splits or fraying present,clean front pastedown with bookseller's narrow adhesive red+white advert label to lower edge opposing free endpaper with minimal off-set foxing shadow to top,right-hand corner,clean rear pastedown with off-set foxing shadow to recto of rear free endpaper,hinges solid and sound without any cracking.Top edges lightly toned from light dust-soiling with no foxing/ spotting,fore-edges also lightly toned with faint,minimal and sporadic foxing/ spotting - a much lesser degree than is usually encountered for a book of it's age; contents bright,tight with very,very minimal foxing/spotting to page fore- edges,text body almost free of any excessively noticeable foxing,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn,v-ixpp+1-274pp [paginated],includes author's poem+Envoi,separate contents+illustrations lists/ tables,14 chapters and an 8pp index,8 contemporary b/w line illustrations by Captain R. T. Roussel - himself a P.O.W with Waugh - includes frntis,4 contemporary b/w photographs of their Kantine,"prison cell",billiard room and "prison square" - tennis courts,plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title,b/w frntis illustration,title page - all without foxing,and to the rear publisher's advert for Waugh's first book,written aged 17, 'Loom of Youth' with critics' opinions.
Uncanningly bright,clean and an exceptionally presentable example.An uncommon and scarce 1st edn of this his 3rd book,and a true literary find for any collector of this genre.
Waugh's detailed account and experience as a P.O.W in Germany during WW1.
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