By Anthony Charles Faramus; Frank Owen; Eddie Chapman [Foreword]
London   Allan Wingate
7.5" by 5" 178 pp.
A very scarce first edition of Anthony Charles Faramus’s harrowing WWII memoir, charting his captivity alongside double agent, “Agent Zigzag”, Eddie Chapman, from Nazi-occupied Jersey.
By Anthony Charles Faramus; Frank Owen; Eddie Chapman [Foreword]

[1954] The Faramus Story: Being the Experiences of Anthony Charles Faramus

London   Allan Wingate
7.5" by 5" 178 pp.
A very scarce first edition of Anthony Charles Faramus’s harrowing WWII memoir, charting his captivity alongside double agent, “Agent Zigzag”, Eddie Chapman, from Nazi-occupied Jersey.
£90.00
: 0.5kgs / : 973H18

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Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original green cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper.

This volume is a first edition.

This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from a copy held at The British Library. 

It’s a harrowing first-person account of Anthony Charles Faramus, a Channel Islander who endured incarceration during the German occupation, detained alongside double agent Eddie Chapman, better known by his codename "Agent Zigzag", followed by deportation to concentration and transit camps including Fort de Romainville, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen. 

Anthony Faramus (1920–1990) was also an actor, hairdresser, and author of a later memoir titled Journey into Darkness (1990).

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Clipped. Offsetting from tape repair to head of spine. Slight loss to head of spine. One or two chips to head and tail of spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned. One or two spots to fore edge.

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