CLAVELL, James King Rat. London: Michael Joseph.1963.
8vo. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; pink and green dust jacket; pp. [viii], 397, [3]; slightly bumped to head and tail of spine with discolouration to edges; small tears to head and tail of dust jacket spine with minor sunning to rear panel and scuffing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.
First UK Printing
"For those who are there and are not. For those who were there and are. For him. But most, for her."
The author's powerful debut work; a semi-fictional account of his incarceration at Changi, the notorious Japanese prison camp in Singapore (with the protagonist, Peter Marlowe, based on Clavell himsef).
King Rat was the first book published of Clavell's famous, The Asian Saga, and yet the fourth chronologically of the six books that form the series.
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