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Description: First edition, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
WAUGH, Alec. The prisoners of Mainz. Chapman & Hall, 1919.
Price: US$30.99 + shipping
Description: Rather untidy old repair to front hinge; slight yellowing to pages; pale flecks to buff cloth on boards; paper title label on spine yellowed & worn Used - Good. Good hardback in buff cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine slightly darkened and with some wear at head and tail, lettering-label very rubbed, free endpapers slightly embrowned. Alec Waugh (Alexander Raban Waugh, 1898-1981) published his first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), when he was just out of school. "By the time it became apparent that The Loom of Youth was a best-seller," records his nephew Auberon Waugh in the ODNB, "Waugh was a prisoner of war near Mainz, having fought at Passchendaele with the Dorset regiment and been captured as a machine-gunner near Arras." The Prisoners of Mainz (Roussel's frontispiece illustration is entitled "The Doom of Youth") is a good-natured account of his wartime experiences; 2pp. publisher's advertisement at end for The Loom of Youth (ninth edition, twentieth thousand) - "press opinions" from Captain C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and others.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London. Chapman & Hall, 1919. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good minus. 8vo. 274pp + ii publisher's advertisements for Waugh's 'The Loom of Youth'. Brown cloth boards with a very darkened spine label although titles still visible. Two partial ring marks (beverage?) on front endpaper. Spine tail softened and corners knocked . Boards are a little grubby paperIllustrated with a frontispiece and eleven captioned plates of drawings and photographs. The author's record of his incarceration in the German POW camp Citadel Mainz following his capture at Arras.
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original cloth with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: from the library of Andrew and Careys Whybrow, with their bookplate to front pastedown. Physical description: ix, 274 p : ill, front., plates ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Prisoners and prisons, German Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany); Prisoners of war History 20th century Germany; World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - France. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original cloth with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: from the library of Andrew and Careys Whybrow, with their bookplate to front pastedown. Physical description: ix, 274 p : ill, front., plates ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Prisoners and prisons, German Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany); Prisoners of war History 20th century Germany; World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - France. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Alec. The Prisoner of Mainz. Chapman and Hall, London, 1919.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor mark to rear board, slightly cocked, title label rubbed to spine, top edge a little dusty and foxed, pp clean and tidy. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First state of First Edition, publisher's advertisement for, 'Loom Of Youth'. The frontispiece and eleven illustrations are present in the 274pp + ii publishers advertisements. The label on the spine is quite bright as well as the boards which have a mylar cover.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Alec Waugh.. The Prisoners of Mainz.. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London., 1919.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Prisoners of Mainz. By Alec Waugh. Hard covers in fair condition with dust jacket in good condition. 1st Edition 1919.
Seller: Entelechy Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, pp xi, 274, single bound-in advertising leaf to rear, frontis & 11 further plates. Some light toning throughout and rear internal hinge starting but intact. In oatmeal cloth with laid-on white, black & red title label to spine. In the original clay-coloured DJ (in protective wraps) with the frontis illustration reproduced to the top cover, some light chipping to the front fold and the top of the spine. Identical to the Britiah first edition this is a scarce work in any condition, let alone with the original jacket. Alec Waugh, the brother of Evelyn, was held as a POW in the First World War and served with distinction with Tito's forces in Yugoslavia (as a member of the embryonic SAS) in the Second. Illustrations by Captain R.T.Roussel (P.O.W. Mainz).
Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United Kingdom
Alec Waugh SIGNED. The Prisoners of Mainz. Chapman and Hall, UK, 1919.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1919. Presentation inscription from the author to the inner page. Uncommon signed. Illustrated by R T Roussel. Details his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War I. Book is very good and bright. Spine label rubbed with light loss to wording. Contents good. Endpapers age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Alec; ROUSSEL, Capt. R. T. (illus.). The Prisoners of Mainz. Chapman and Hall, London, 1919.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ix, 274 p. + 2 p. of press blurbs for author's first book, The Loom of Youth. 20 cm. Illustrated with frontispiece drawing, photographs, and other drawings by Captain R. T. Roussel. Grey cloth with white spine label. Minor wear. Slight spine lean, mild foxing on the page edges.In mylar-covered pristine dustjacket that replicates the frontispiece illustration, showing a uniformed prisoner looking through a wire fence at a guard patrolling on the other side. A superior copy. The author's third book, The Prisoners of Mainz describes Waugh's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany in World War I. The illustrator was a prisoner as well.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
WAUGH, Alec. The Prisoners of Mainz. Chapman and Hall, London, 1919.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Capt. R.T. Roussel. 8vo, tan cloth, paper spine label (tanned & rubbed). London: Chapman & Hall, 1919. First Edition. Details his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War I. Presentation copy, inscribed to Philip (Gosse). "One day soon I am going to rewrite this book and tell what has happened to those people since."With Gosse's ex-libris.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.