King Rat.
CLAVELL, James.
King Rat.
“How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now": FIRST EDITION OF JAMES CLAVELL’S FIRST BOOK KING RAT; SIGNED BY HIM
Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.
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First edition of the author’s first novel in his acclaimed Asian Saga. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author. Very light shelf wear to the cloth, else fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some rubbing to the spine extremities.
King Rat is a semi-fictional account of the author's prison experiences at Changi. Upon publication, it became an immediate best-seller and three years later, it was adapted to film.
