8vo. 378pp. With a photographic frontispiece, a further seven photographic plates, and four maps in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Inked ownership inscription of John Douglas Slim (1927-2019), son of Field Marshal William Slim, to title page.

An early edition of explorer and mountaineer Frederick Spencer Chapman's (1907-1971) immensely popular account of operations behind the lines in Malaya during the Second World War, first published in 1948.