Search Results: the man on my back by eric linklater

Macmillan, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Reprinted. 340 pages. No dust jacket. Dark red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and water stains with minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier water stains and sunning to spine.

Hardcover. Good. MacMillan Publishing Co., 1941 reprint, hardcover, tight and square, light wear, name on end paper.

London : Macmillan. VG hbk reprint bound in red cloth, gilt on black spine lettering.341 pages. 23395. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1941.

London: Macmillan, 1941. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good. 341 pages. 8vo, red cloth, dust wrapper; wrapper edge-worn with one tear repaired with tape on verso. London, 1941. First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good wrapper.<br/><br/>

Hardcover. Good. Sold by the charity Langdon Foundation: Supporting men & Women with disabilities.

Macmillan & Co. ltd, 1941-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.3000 8.6000 5.5000. Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Gift inscription inside front cover. Pages are clean and intact.

GB: Macmillan, 1941. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped. In loose polythene protector. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG-pc Dw.

London: Macmillan, 1941. Reprint from October 1941 (first printed in March). Quite a lot of creasing and tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, with the top inch missing at top end of spine and smaller bits missing at bottom end and at lower corner of front panel. Some old damp-marking to red boards, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of same, black ink stains to top edge of inner flap of dustwrapper and to top edges of first pages, original owner's name and date (1942) inside front board, otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author was quite a well-known writer of novels between the 1930s and 1950s. Deals with the author's childhood in Orkney, his service in WW1, Aberdeen university, travels in Persia, Russia, India and the US, up to the outbreak of WW2. 341pp. . Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: MacMillan, 1941 price clipped dust jacket has some tears, some spotting of foxing, chipped at head, gift inscription to fep, clean copy with foxing to closed edges and on to some margins, vii 341pp, autobiography of Eric Linklater. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Macmillan. good. . with dustjacket, 1941 1st. light tanning clean copy . 1941. Hardcover.

London : Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1941. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description : vii, 340, [1] pages ; 22 cm. Subjects : Linklater, Eric 1899-1974. World War, 1914-1918 ; Personal narratives. Soldiers ; Biography.

1947. London, Macmillan & Co., 1947. 14 cm x 22 cm. VII, 341 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: The Island Lake / Soldiers in Bed / The Freedom of Baghdad / The Persian Road / The Sturgeon Sea / Black Sea Prisoners / Pacific Voyage / Return to Bombay / Holiday in Assam / The Tibetan Border / Cathay and the Way Thither / A House in Orkney etc. "Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject." (Wikipedia)