Christopher Landon – Ice-Cold in Alex – First Edition 1957 – with the rare wrap-around band and SIGNED Photograph of Sir John Mills
£675.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Ice-Cold in Alex’ published by Heinemann in 1957. A near fine book in a very good unclipped wrapper with rubbing to the edges and a tape shadow to the rear panel. With the wrap-around band showing John Mills, Sylvia Sims et al. having a well earned drink. The book is accompanied by a signed black and white photo of Sir John Mills, hand-signed in blue ink.
Christopher Landon’s 1957 novel, drawing on wartime desert experience, and became J. Lee Thompson’s 1958 film. Both follow a battered British ambulance crew crossing North Africa toward Alexandria, driven by survival and the dream of an ice-cold beer. The film keeps the book’s tense, dusty realism, but reshapes some character emphasis for cinema, helping turn Landon’s tough, intimate war story into a British classic for many later viewers alike.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Ice-Cold in Alex’ published by Heinemann in 1957. A near fine book in a very good unclipped wrapper with rubbing to the edges and a tape shadow to the rear panel. With the wrap-around band showing John Mills, Sylvia Sims et al. having a well earned drink. The book is accompanied by a signed black and white photo of Sir John Mills, hand-signed in blue ink.
Christopher Landon’s 1957 novel, drawing on wartime desert experience, and became J. Lee Thompson’s 1958 film. Both follow a battered British ambulance crew crossing North Africa toward Alexandria, driven by survival and the dream of an ice-cold beer. The film keeps the book’s tense, dusty realism, but reshapes some character emphasis for cinema, helping turn Landon’s tough, intimate war story into a British classic for many later viewers alike.
