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8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, red ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Complementing 'Specially Employed' (1952), this is an elegant copy of the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart, content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.410 (recording the first edition).
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, 22 plates on 8 and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Reconstructed account of the notable survivors. Standard reference by one of SOE's two pioneer historians. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.396; Foot, p.456.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.190.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
IN HEBREW. contains b&w plates. 23.5x15.5cm. 518 pages. Hardcover. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
1944942181.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
196577434New York, The Viking Press 1965. Fourth Printing xiv, 6 Blatt, 364 S., 22cm Leinen 0
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
96 pages. Index. "Debates the goals and actions of militias and examines whether these groups constitute a danger to America." - from Introduction. Usual library markings. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1334034125.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20x13.5cm. 331 pages. Softcover. Spine slightly bumped. Else in good condition.
32 pages. Features: Cover photos of Churchill and Viscount Halifax approaching battleship 'King George V'; Excellent two-page illustration of sappers throwing a box-girder bridge with nose union across an enemy tank trap; Photo of Carl J. Hambro with M. Carton De Wiart; Photo of King Haakon with Polish President M. Raczkiewicz; One-page photo of General Wavell with Maj.-Gen. O'Connor outside doomed Bardia; Eight pages of fantastic photos of the fall of Bardia - first views; Magnificant centrefold photo of Britain's latest and greatest battleship, H.M.S. 'King George V'; Eight photos of patriot Abyssinians training for battle against Italian tyrants; Six photos of Greek heroism in arctic cold - latest pictures from Albania; Two pages of photos of Wendell Willkie, supporter of the aid for Britain policy, at work; Photos of personalities of the week include General De Gaulle, Count Ciano, Marshal Griziani, Count Csaky, Commander Roger Bureau, P.D. Willeringhaus, John Oxenham, Daniel Hopkin, L.F. Sinclair, and David Lloyd George at his wife's funeral; Five photos of the Chinese military which stands undaunted after four years' heroic resistance; Four photos of Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife, plus a photo of her Pekinese dog; Photo of amazing Italian 'Land Yacht' (captured from Commander Gatti) presented to Britain as a symbol of the resistance by the Belgian Congo; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book
Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The harrowing story of Gunvald Tomstadt was first published in Oslo in 1965. Enser, p.299.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With presentation bookplate on front free endpaper. Enser, p.371.
IN HEBREW. 250x190 pages. 557 pages. Hardcover. In good condition.
140X220 mm. 447 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners slightly bumped. Ex-library copy with usual marks on spine, front and rear inner covers and title page. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
82 pages. "Being a Text-book of Data collected from Investigations in the Research Laboratories and in the Works of Thos. Firth & Sons, LTD., Sheffield." - from title page. Chapters include: The Requisitioning of Stainless Steel; Stainless Steel and its Manufacture; The Working and Treatment of Stainless Steel; The Strength of Stainless Steel as Shewn by Mechanical Tests; The Mechanical Strength of Stainless Steel at High Temperatures; General Physical Properites; Resistance to Rust - Corrosion Resisting Properties; The Effect of Various Reagents upon Stainless Steel; Contact with Other Metals; Stainless Iron. Illustrated. Undated. Circa 1950s? Unmarked. Moderate wear. Bright gilt lettering to front board and spine. Spine leaning. Binding intact. Nice clean copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Roxanne Pitt was one of the few of the UK's principal women agents to escape arrest in occupied France and elsewhere. Enser, p.400.
18x10.5 cm. 168 pages. Soft cover. Spine is scuffed and slightly faded. Cover is slightly scratched and stained. Edges of book are slightly stained and dirty. Pages are slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
VG. paperback -minor spine-creasing but no inscriptions or underlinings. a collection of 11 new essays by leading scholars of the chartist movement from britain australia and the united states
8vo., First Edition thus; grey tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the French edition. Bruller was co-founder of Editions de Minuit, the publishing house which flourished under the nose of the occupying Nazis. 'The Silence of the Sea' was his first clandestine book.