Patrol

New York: Harpers, 1928.

Price: $700.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Contemporary owner name, slight soiling to the binding, still fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with several small chips and tears, mostly at the spine ends. Members of a small British Army unit stranded in a Mesopotamian oasis are picked off one by one by hostile Arabs. Basis for the classic John Ford film *Lost Patrol* featuring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, and Alan Hale. Very scarce in this condition.

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Item #55129 Patrol. Philip MacDONALD.
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Philip MacDonald
birth name: Philip MacDonald
born: 11/5/1901
died: 12/10/1980

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Biography

Successful British mystery author and screenwriter, the grandson of 19th Century author George MacDonald, died in Woodland Hills, CA at age 79. His books include Patrol and Forbidden Planet, and among his screenplays was Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca.more