CLAVELL, James. King Rat. London: Michael Joseph. 1963. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill. A fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and perhaps just very marginally rolled, very minor, and the contents clean and fine throughout, one tiny nick to fore-edge of p. 373. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net) and fine without any of the spine toning commonly hindering the book, with trivial bumps to spine foot, but an extremely pleasing copy.
The first British edition of Clavell’s acclaimed Asian Saga which would take more than thirty years to complete. The six-volume series spans the seventeenth century to the present day, rooted in East meets West. King Rat picks up the action in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in the Second World War. A superior example.
CLAVELL, James. King Rat. London: Michael Joseph. 1963. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill. A fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and perhaps just very marginally rolled, very minor, and the contents clean and fine throughout, one tiny nick to fore-edge of p. 373. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net) and fine without any of the spine toning commonly hindering the book, with trivial bumps to spine foot, but an extremely pleasing copy.
The first British edition of Clavell’s acclaimed Asian Saga which would take more than thirty years to complete. The six-volume series spans the seventeenth century to the present day, rooted in East meets West. King Rat picks up the action in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in the Second World War. A superior example.
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