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Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

popular library, , (first PB 1954), . EB-20, very good , (TRUE ADVENTURE STORY), paperback,

NY: Popular Library, 1954. Illustrated by John Groth. Slight wear. Photos on reqeust.. EB20, July First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Mass Market.

popular library, , (first PB 1954), . EB-20, very good -fine,, reading crease (TRUE ADVENTURE STORY), paperback,

Allen. 1952 Good+/Good+.. DJ is rather grubby, with tarnish marks, rubbing and small associated loss to most edges. prior owner's details on front endpaper. pages are age-tanned, otherwise no significant faults. Octavo 194pp. Following the fall of Singapore the Dutch liner Rosenboom left Padang for Ceylon carrying on board nearly 500 evacuees who were mostly British civilians and soldiers. Shortly after leaving port the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank so rapidly that only one lifeboat floated into which 135 people were crammed. The boat drifted for 28 days and covered over 1,000 miles but when eventually it grounded near Sumatra, only the author and three others had managed to survive

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt lettering on blue-green covers in a pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 101pp.

London: W.H Allen, 1952. Faded Spine.....Please Email for further details. Signed By an "E.N. Howes". First Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good +++/No Jacket. Illus. by Black & White Illustrations. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hardback.

popular library, , (first PB 1954), . EB-20, almost near fine, (TRUE ADVENTURE STORY), paperback,

Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd., 2007

Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd, 2007-07-12. Paperback. Like New.

Star, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. P/B 96 pages, condition is very good. Between Singapore and Ceylon a ship carrying British civilians and soldiers was torpedoes. Only one lifeboat was floated and into it were packed 135 human beings. all standing upright and all nearly naked, with only a handful of food and water between them. For twenty-eight days the tiny boat drifted helplessly for 1,000 miles, until it grounded on the shores of an island off Sumatra. Of the 135 souls on board at the start, only four had survived.

GB: George Mann (Maidstone), 1973. Reprint. Hardback. nrFine/VG+ DW. Illus. by Ken Freeman (DW).

UK: W.H. Allen, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 7.5 x 5 inches. Red cloth boards in a chipped and torn jacket. Story of the Rooseboom evacuation following the fall of Singapore.

London: W.H. Allen, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. dj (price unclipped) a little rubbed at spine tips and corners, front flyleaf removed, illustrated with photographs etc, light foredge foxing, vg. small 8vo, 96pp. 'One of the most dramatic sea stories ever told'. The story of the 135 survivors of the Dutch ship the Rooseboom taking refugees after the fall of Singapore and torpedoed on her way to Ceylon. Only 4 made it to safety. Walter Gibson and many others belonged to the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.

London: W.H. Allen, 1932 An excellent, clean and tightly bound book. Previous owner's name is inked neatly on the flyleaf.

Hardcover. Very Good.

Allen , 1952. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Ships & the Sea; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 9497. .

London: W. H. Allen, 1952. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier tanning to the spine. Offset to the endpapers. Previous owners' name to the front pastedown. Pages lightly age-tanned. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 7½” x 5” (0.5 kg); 96pp; Contains: Black & white photographs; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #192060|| Condition:

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.