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8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Detailed modern account of FLIPPER, the audacious atempt in 1941 to capture Rommel in his desert HQ. Inevitably covers the formative days of the SAS and volunteer commandos, including Bob Laycock and Geoffrey Keyes, the latter awarded a posthumous VC for the attack.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; yellow cloth, upper board framed in black, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Eric Fraser. Vividly-written novel based on the author's service in North Africa. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
8vo., First Edition thus, text in German, with very numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
3è expédition dans le Sahara avec son amie artiste peintre Marion SENONES et dernier récit de voyage de l'exploratrice et journaliste Odette DU PUIGAUDEAU (1894-1991), où elle retrace l'histoire de la route Maroc-Sénégal et et de ses bâtisseurs, les "pistards"; lexique; photos en 12 hors-texte, cartes, 31 dessins dans le texte de Marion SENONES. Français
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Debutante transformed into VAD nurse during WWII and serving primarily in Cairo.
Paris, Albin Michel, 1959. In-8, broché, 596 pp. Première édition. Cartes hors-texte. Bel ex.
Paris, Nouvelle Collection d'auteurs français, 1936 ; in-8, plein cartonnage, 304 pp. Dessins en noir dans le texte.
Paris, P.U.F., Bibliothèque de Sociologie Contemporaine, 1971. In-8, broché, 246 pp.
français Fort in-12 de X-919-(2) pp.; demi-chagrin rouge, dos à quatre nerfs orné (reliure de l'époque). Quatorzième édition ornée de 57 vignettes, de 11 cartes tirées en couleur et de 31 cartes intercalées dans le texte.
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16, 3 full-page maps and a full-page table in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in the sixtieth anniversary year of the battle, this is the most comprehensive and detailed single-volume history to date, with a very good selection of photographs (a number of which were censored at the time). Includes details of the war correspondents (six of whom died during the campaign) who did so much to publicise 'the end of the beginning'. A valuable complement to Pitt.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one colour and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Includes material on the 'U'-class in general. Law, 1112.
8vo., First Edition, front free endpaper lightly browned; cloth, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting a small piece from bottom half of backstrip. The story of the New York Times's correspondent in WWII. It begins with the day the tanks broke through the British lines in Libya, followed by his long trek back to Benghazi, his journey across the Mediterranean to Italy and Germany, his solitary confinement in a Gestapo prision and his final days of the war in an Italian prison camp.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first history of the Divison to feature contributions from Other Ranks. Includes six OOBs for various stages of the war. Smith p.275.
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, upper board faded at extreme top edge, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly-browned dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at extremities. Enser, p.296 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 184.
L'Egypte, les déserts, les oasis, les sites archéologiques et la vallée du Nil, par Nicole LEVALLOIS; évocation in fine de 3 anciens voyageurs: Paul Lucas (1664-1737), Gian Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) et Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894); préface de l'archéologue Alain ZIVIE; carte et nombreuses photos couleurs; bibliographie. Exemplaire bien complet de ses jaquette et étui. Français
Quarto in an orange slipcase (tan spine) ; 276 p : illus ; 26 cm Africa, West -- Description and travel -- Literature
pp. xiv, 312 + Plus maps and photographs. Map endpapers. 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, soiled. First American Edition. Scarce. WWIIA/1
Tan quarto ; 152 p, music, 26 cm In French // Music -- Africa -- Congresses -- France
Octavo in white printed wraps In Arabic. Uncommon. || Morrocco, History. Politics. North Africa
