King Rat.

CLAVELL, James.

Item Number: 92

Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

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.