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195451284Secker & Warburg 1954. 8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with barbed-wire motif gilt top hand-made endpapers original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front ribbon marker in custom-made-slip case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Boulle's classic WWII novel is the basis of David Lean's eponymous feature film 1957 starring Alec Guinness William Holden Jack Hawkins and Sessue Hayakawa. Arguably the first major movie to depict the sufferings of POWs on the Burma-Siam railway it was awarded no fewer than seven Oscars. Secker & Warburg, hardcover