rivett rohan (19 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine in Very Good+ DJ. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed to noted Harvard professor. A handsome copy. Very minimal shelf wear, inscribed on the title page by the author, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Black coated paper boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 225pp. Index.

xii+225pp. 8vo. B&W plates. Oringinal boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First edition. Presented by author's (subject's grandson).

84pp. 8vo. Oringinal wrappers. A very good copy. Monograph No. 1. First edition.

8vo; pp. xiv, 217; portrait frontispiece, 16 illustrations, notes, index, original cloth, dustjacket, very good copy. . First Edition.

xii+225pp. 8vo. Oringinal boards in dustwrapper. Laminate of dustwrapper falls short of horizontal edges resulting in some soiling. Review paper remains folded around dustwrapper. Otherwise a near fine copy. B&W plates.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Inscription to the Title Page from author " for Dymphna & Alex with best wishes from Nan & Rohan, November 1972" 225 pages. Foreword by Baron Casey of Berwick and of the City of Westminister. Biography of notable Australian scientist, Sir David Rivett, who was instrumental in the foundation and success of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research the forerunner to the CSIRO. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

xii+225pp. 8vo. B&W plates. Oringinal boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First edition. Inscribed by author's son.

xiv+400pp. 8vo. Original cloth in slightly worn dustwrapper. . Includes colour frontispiece, 2 maps and 13 illustrations (of which 3 are full-page plates). Lacks ffe., otherwise a very good copy. First edition.

4th Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing on endpages, half-title and title page. Minor marks and foxing to foredges. Borrower card pocket on inside back cover. Missing dust jacket. Body text and binding are still very good. Behind Bamboo is unflinching in its honesty and haunting in its realism. It is a vivid, compelling testament to the Australians' will to survive and their unassailable spirit in the face of the most callous inhumanity.

8vo; pp. xiv, 217; portrait frontispiece, 16 illustrations, notes, index, original cloth, dustjacket, a near finecopy. . First Edition. Inscribed by Alfred Deakin Brookes in 1987.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Camberwell, Rohan Rivett, 1977. Octavo; pictorial card covers lightly creased and rubbed; a very good copy. Bullock teamers between 1900-1939.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white plates and two maps. Colour frontispiece. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners with some marking to boards. Very faint scattered foxing to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 335 pages. Rohan Rivett's classic saga of life as a prisoner of war during the Second World War including the hell of his days on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Includes an Appendix 'P.O.W. Glossary'.

Hardback. Foreword by Baron Casey of Berwick and of the City of Westminister. Biography of notable Australian scientist, Sir David Rivett, who was instrumental in the foundation and success of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research the forerunner to the CSIRO. Very good condition. Some light scuffing on dust jacket.

1st ed. From the library of E.W.Swanton - bookplate on front pastedown. Presentation inscription by author on title page; binding tight. Used - Very Good. SIGNED copy. VG hardback in burgundy cloth Used - Very Good. SIGNED copy. VG hardback in burgundy cloth.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. First impression. 8vo. Pp ix + 225 + frontis and 12pp b&w photographs. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Gift inscriptioin on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Short closed tear on the dust jacket which is a touch rubbed at the top edge. Signed by the author on the title page.

Black and white illustrations and plates, xiii + 400pp, appendix. Two leaves unopened, with small closed tear at margin, cloth-covered boards somewhat worn.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. North Blackburn, Dominion Press, 1972. Octavo, xxii, 225 pages plus 12 pages of plates. Papered boards slightly bumped; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly marked, creased, rubbed and torn with very slight loss. A presentation copy, inscribed 'For John [Bray]/ with warm personal regards', dated (December 1972) and signed by the author. With the publisher's wrap-around 'Rohan Rivett on David Rivett' (a little browned and rubbed with a tiny tear). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Behind Bamboo by Rohan Rivett. Publisher: Angus & Robertson., London / Sydney., 1954. Very good hardback with jacket. No inscriptions. Binding firm, minor marks. Jacket has some chippint to edges with a small closed tear front flap. 335 pages with photos. The bestselling memoir of life as an Australian POW on the notorious Thai-Burma railway. Rohan Rivett was a journalist in Singapore when it fell to the Japanese in 1942. He escaped south across the treacherous Bangka Strait to Indonesia, but was soon captured and became just one of thousands of POWs struggling for existence in a Japanese camp. The struggle was to last for more than three years. Behind Bamboo is unflinching in its honesty and haunting in its realism. It is a vivid, compelling testament to the Australians' will to survive and their unassailable spirit in the face of the most callous inhumanity.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Book Condition: Good. Some mild foxing to title page and tanning to edges/ ends. No dust jacket. Some wear/marking to cover. Text inside clean and bright, no damage to interior. Good Reading Copy. 14 illustrations (Pencil Drawings and Colour Paintings) 2 Hand Drawn Maps by the author. Dedicated by Author to "THE MEN, AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH AND AMERICAN, who endured the Jaspanese captivity along the Burma - Siam railway and above all to the memory of those comrades who lie for ever in jungle graves THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED." First published in 1946, this is the story of life in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and working on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. The author captures the spirit of men who found courage, loyalty and even optimism in the midst of the horror and deprivation of the grimmest of conditions.