£85
A poignant relic of the Japanese occupation of Singapore in WWII, being a 1924 edition of "The Oxford Books of English Verse 1250-1900", inscribed in pencil on the flyleaf "C W Dawson Changi Prison 1942" and later inscribed on the other side "This book greatly helped me & Jill to survive internment by the Japanese in Singapore from 1942 to 1945", the title page bearing a Japanese stamp with note beneath "This seal of Japanese military enabled me to have this book in Changi Prison C.W.D", also with penciled notes in the margins and inside the back covers the numbers of those poems that have been read. GC, some wear and foxing. Together with a page of research of civilians interred in Changi Prison listing five members of the Dawson family with prisoner ID numbers 1185-1189 including Christopher William and Jill Dawson. £50-80
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