King Rat

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Good/Very Good -. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22 cm); publisher's green dust jacket with $5.75 price intact; boards in beige cloth with green lettering to spine; green topstain; [viii],406pp. Ex- Stephentown Memorial Library, with their stamp to title page, remnants of removed pocket to rear free endpaper, and a pen number at bottom of dedication page. Jacket chipped along bottom edge with heavy scuffs down folds at at bottom rear; spine and folds a bit darkened, small closed tear at bottom front; toning to verso. Boards show tape shadow from earlier mylar jacket cover having been affixed, with toning along edges and a horizontal run to cloth on rear. Spine cocked, with bumping at head and tail. Waterspotting to top edge of textblock with topstain mottled and a bit of color bleed near head. Tidemarks to rear free endpaper, with occasional and slight color bleed into top page margin. Endpapers show matching tape shadows and toning. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Rough overall but externally presentable.

The first of Clavell's novels and the first in his Asian Saga, set in a Japanese POW camp in Singapore.