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Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY: (1950)., 1950 250p. + numerous photographs. Very XLib. 8vo. Rebound. Hardbound. Reading copy only. INDIA BOX 1 0.0. Hardcover.

NY: Doubleday. VG. (1950). From Elephant Bill's experiences in Burma where elephants helped with work. Sl edge wear, owner name ft endpaper. .

Long Riders' Guild Press, 2001. Paperback. Good/N/A. n.d. Facsimile reprint. Wrappers handled, edgeworn, with a number of spots and smudges; corners bumped, a couple of page corners creased, one page bumped at fore-edge. 319 pp., illus. 1920s life in the Jungles of Burma. An Adventure Travel Classic. Size: 8vo

Reader's Digest Association, 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Winter 1951 Selections. Vol.IV. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Hardcovers are very good. Text is clean but edges have lightly yellowed. Previous owner's name is stamped twice on first front end paper. Dust jacket has chips and edge wear and has been repaired with cellophane tape. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good . Though he was officially known as Lt. Colonel J. H. Williams, the author was known to the world at large as “Elephant Bill.” That is because he spent 25 years living with the elephants in the mountains and forests of Burma. There he trained them to haul teak logs out of the isolated jungles. Yet this is also a story of great courage, because when the Second World War struck it also came to Burma. The Japanese Imperial Army planned to confiscate the Burmese elephants, drafting them to make the bridges and railways they needed to invade India. When he learned of these plans to put his beloved animals to a war-like purpose, Elephant Bill knew what had to be done. The mighty kings of the jungle had to be evacuated to safety. This is thus the story not only of the peaceful days in the jungle, starting in 1921, but also the story of the largest elephant rescue in history. It tells the amazing account of how Elephant Bill, along… Read More

Doubleday & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Later printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. New protective mylar applied to dust jacket before shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. Former library copy, may have usual markings. Includes clear protective plastic cover on dust jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Photographs. G/G, used, map end papers, 250pp. Interior clean no marks, binding tight. There is a 1 1/8 X 1 1/2 inch area cut out of the top edge of the ffep near the gutter by a previous owner for reasons not known to me. Shelf rubbing to dust jacket, spine sunned, small tear and small chip to the head of the spine, small tear to top edge of the upper at fore-corner, small tears and chip to tail of the spine, corners rubbed.

Doubleday, 1950 Doubleday, 1950 250 pp with B&W plates in text and maps on endpapers. Colonel Williams recounts the heroic record of thelephants as soldiers in the Burma campaign in World War II. Including a description of a harrowing trek by forty-five elephants and their handlers in a march over the 6000 foot mountains of the Eastern Himalayas to India. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.

Garden City: White Lotus, 1950. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Williams, Lt.-Col. J. H.. Elephant Bill

Hardcover. 250 pp. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York (1950). First Edition. Later Printing. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear to cloth boards. Appears mostly unread. Straight and square boards and corners. Softened spine ends. DJ has one tear at top front panel near spine, and moderate chipping at extremities. Near Fine/Very Good. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.