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Barbara Hately-Broad
War and Welfare: British Prisoner of War Families, 1939-45 (Politics, Culture & Society in)
Book and jacket in as new unread condition. 291pp. A study of the lives and difficulties experienced by the wives and families left at home when some 250,000 British servicemen were taken captive by the Axis powers or the Japanese during World War Two.
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Jackson Lears (editor)
Raritan : A Quaterly Review : Winter 2018 - Vol XXXVII No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 167pp. This issues features You are not alone Stalingrad, American peace in an age of endless war, Grug - a man in the market, Sasha my brilliant friend, the Cyclops, the river song, encounters with Monsieur Beyle, the future in the present tense - on AJ Muste plus other fiction and poems from a few authors. Very scarce in the UK.
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Bishop, Chris
Order Of Battle: German Infantry In World War 2 (WWII)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 192pp. A comprehensive account of German infantry which made up the bulk of the Wehrmacht forces in the Second World War comprising paratroop, mountain, light and grenadier units and their specialist functions. Well illustrated.
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Brian Lavery
River-class Frigates and the Battle of the Atlantic: A Technical and Social History
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. An in-depth study of frigates in the Second World War, why the River-class became necessary, the key people involved in its design and the pressures and time constraints under which the plans were developed. With much personal insight into wartime ship construction from the author, who highlights the Hedgehog, depth charges and minesweeping gear and Asdic.
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Hudson, Roger (editor)
William Russell : Special Correspondent of Tthe Times
Book in as new condition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Slipcase near fine with faint scratch across one surface. 426pp. An account of the life and travels of William Russell who is still considered as the greatest war correspondent of all time, over 160 years after he made his name reporting from The Crimea. He also covered the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War and the Zulu War of 1879.
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 138 Sep 1995
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147p. This issue includes AA Milne life and works, Richard Townshend Bickers and aerial war, JD Salinger author of Catcher in the Rye, British composers, L Ron Hubbard fiction, Robert Service poet, Pervy Muir, index and letters and classified..
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Weisbrode, Kenneth
Churchill and the King : The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned page edges, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor crease to spine foot. 208pp. The story of how two very different personalities worked successfully together during the Second World War when England stood alone against Germany.
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The Editors
SP 17-pr Valentine : Royal Armoured Corps Training
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 87pp. This is the handling manual for the 17-pr antitank gun fitted to the Valentine tank. It covers the gun itself and controls, sighting equipment and ammunition, with clear and very effective illustrations of all points. Although issued in 1952 it covers earlier versions of the gun. Restricted document originally published in 1952. Scarce.
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Chief of the Imperial General Staff
The Campaign in North Africa Part III : November 1942 - May 1943
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Three fold-out maps in excellent condition. 144pp. An account of the Allies actions in North Africa during November 1942 to May 1943. Originally published as Notes From Theatres of War No 16 in 1943.
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The Editor
Armament Centurion Mark III (1951)
Appears unread. No marks or inscription. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 237pp. Reprint of the official handbook for the armament fitted to the Centurion Mark III Main Battle Tank. It includes 71 illustrations of the;20-pounder main armament, the 7.92mm BESA machine gun and the 2-in Bomb Thrower. Restricted War Office document originally published in 1951. Scarce.
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The Editor
The Campaign in Italy 1945
Mint unread copy. 92pp. British official short account of the campaign in Italy. This is a reprint of the pamphlet issued by the British War Office in 1945 dealing with the campaign in Italy, and gives details of all major operations up to March 1944. From contemporary 'Notes from Theatres of War'. Very scarce.
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The Editor
Canadian Armoured Car G.M. Mark I - Fox I
Appears unread. No marks or inscription to contentss. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. ca 300pp. Very similar to the British Humber Mk.IV armoured car, the Fox was manufactured by General Motors of Canada. It was armed with a .50 and .30 cal machine gun in a hand-cranked turret. It saw limited duty in the Italian theatre, reconnaissance and escort units in northern Europe opted for M3A3 Stuarts, as well as Staghound and Daimler armoured cars. 1506 Foxes were manufactured in total. This manual covers every detail of the vehicle, and includes stowage diagrams. Document originally published in 1942. Scarce.
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Fitz Gibbon, Constantine
Going to the River
Name/date to title page and number inside rear board. No other added marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Foxed dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with tiny red ink mark to top of spine. 277pp. Set in the period from the start of World War I to the start of World War II, the story follows the lives of two female art students as the world struggles to recover from one war through to the horrors of another.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : November 1978
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on 'The War Must be Ended' 1918 pt one, William Bartram in America's Eden, Cyrano de Bergerac, Supplying the Elizabethan Court, London life in the 1790s, British travellers to Rome in Tudor and Stuart times, the poisoning of William Cotesworth 1725, Notes on battlefields IV the Battle of Corunna plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : December 1978
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on the birth and background of Jesus of Nazareth, 'The War Must be Ended' 1918 part 2, pablo de Olavide 1725-1803 - spirit of an age, August 1862 - the Second Battle of Bull Run, Bart's Hospital from its refoundation by Henry VIII, the Expulsion of the Moriscos 1609-14, John Lethbridge, Diver plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : May 1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Opponents of King John - Northern Barons against the Monarch, Old Sarum - A pocket Borough, the Royal Navy 1782-1814, Mr Justice Holmes in England 1866, the Polish-Prussian War of 1831 - part 1 Grochow, Chimurenga! The Mashone War in Rhodesia, Greek Fire in the West, Roman aids to beauty plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter (editor)
History Today : August 1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Medieval Schools of England, Botanist Explorers of two continents, Margaret Fuller in Europe 1846-1850, Lord Derby of the Oaks, Woodes Rogers - privateer and pirate hunter, Smuggling in the War of 1812, Henry Crabb Robinson, the English Earthquake of 1580 plus book reviews and letters.
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Mercurio, Jed
Ascent
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 263pp. Story of a Russian fighter pilot in the Korean War who later sets off on his new destination - the Moon. It is based on facts and some unverified theories.
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Berto, Giuseppe
The Works of God and other stories
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards, minor foxing to end papers and page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with slight marking to sunned spine and very minor foxing. 235pp. Four stories from Italy during the Second World War from the author of 'The Sky is Red'.
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Rees, Paul (editor)
Q Music Magazine : October 2010 : Jay-Z on front Cover
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 162pp. Britain's biggest music magazine with features on Jay-Z, Dave Grohl, Brandon Flowers, Lady Gaga, War Chilr record, Carl Barat, Funeral Party, Bob Geldof, Mumford & Sons and lots more.
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Spears, Major-General Sir Edward
Fulfilment of a Mission : Syria and Lebanon 1941-1944
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked light blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn wth tiny crease to foot of slightly sunned spine. 311pp. Considered with Churchill as one of the twp outstanding soldier authors of the 20th century, Spears found himself at war not only with the Germans and the Vichy French but equally with the Free French and the Foreign Office ! In this work he describes his gradual disenchantment with the monster he had created - De Gaulle - who he had brought from France to England and virtually created him leader of the Free French.
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Wouk, Herman
War and Remembrance
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to spine ends and lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with nicks to upper edge and a little rubbing to upper and lower edges. 1042pp. Fictional reconstruction of events during the Second World War following a related group of people from the fall of Singapore to the first atomic bomb test and from Midway to Stalingrad.
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Featherstone, Sue
Lest We Forget : Hollingworth 1914-1918
Appears unread. Small label removal mark to rear. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. ca. 100pp. Memorial to eighty-nine men from Hollingworth in Tameside who were lost in the First World War. This work contains each person's concise biography.
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Morris, Heather
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 278pp. The true story of Lale Sokolov who was forced to tattoo the blue numbers on concentration camp prisoners during the Second World War. During this time he was instrumental in exchanging money and jewels taken from murdered Jewish prisoners to obtain food to keep others alive.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : January 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Jefferson's visit to England 1786, Louis XIV's Paris, China and Russia - the beginnings of contact, Ferozeshah and the Sikh War, the 17th century and Africans, Education and the Dissentings Academies - 17th to 19th centuries plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : July 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly foxed rear and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Bishops of Winchester Henry of Blois and Peter des Roches, the aftermath of Nivelle 1917, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini - humanist and Pope, the Klondike 1898, the Peninsular War, the Yorkshier Plumptons in the Wars of the Roses, Stephen Duck, Thresher Poet plus book reviews and letters.
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Fowler, Will
Kursk : The Greatest Tank Battle
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 192pp. An account of the battle between 3000 German tanks and 4000 tanks from the Soviet Union which took place from 5-16 July 1943 on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. It was Germany's last large-scale offensive on the Eastern Front and was a decisive failure for them. Very well illustrated. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Crump, Simon
They Call it 'U-Boat Hotel'
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 80pp. The story of the German POW camp at Grizedale Hall in the English Lake District. It was used for captured German submariner and Luftwaffe officers between 1939 and 1948. With a fold-out architectural drawing of its plan and elevation as designated during this period. With a number of reports about activities, goods available to inmates and also details of an escape tunnel. Illustrated. A very scarce publication. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Olson, Lynne
Last Hope Island
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny ink spot to lower page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 553pp. A saga of hairbreadth escape, espionage and resistance during the Secons World War telling the stories of heroic souls from seven countries overrun by Hitler who find refuge in Churchill's London and seek payback. Scarce in the UK.
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Wilson, Sir Henry & Jeffery, Keith (editor)
The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson 1918-1922
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth gilt embossed boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with damp effect to reverse side of top edge (no effect on book) and very minor creasing to top edge. 438pp. Copies of letters held in the Imperial War Museum from the author's time as professional head of the British Army. They cover the end of the First World War, demobilisation, army re-building and other wide-ranging military commitments throughout the world.
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Lambert, A. P. and Woods, J. C.
Continent, Coalfield and Conservation : The Biographical History of the British Army Austerity 0-6-0 Saddle Tank
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, staples rusty internally and no bumping to corners. 83pp. The bulk of the book considers every example of the British Army Austerity 0-6-0 saddle tank, listing them individually number by number and giving their history from manufacture to being scrapped. There is a list of the builders of each numbered vahicle, loco names and what happened to those in Belgium, France and Holland. Very well illustrated. Scarce.
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Levi, Primo
The Drowned and the Saved
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 170pp. Primo Levi's account of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II.
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The Editor
People of Peace at War
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and well-rubbed edges and corners. 87pp. The Pepperell Textile company explain their input to the war effort pictorially. Captioned photographs throughout the book of weaving and other textile manufacturing, service personnel and all the textile applications during the Second World War. Very scarce in the UK.
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Topolski, Feliks (illus) & Cripps, Sir Stafford (intro)
Russia in War : London-Summer 1941 Russia-Bound Convoy A British Cruiser Iceland.
No added marks or inscriptions. A clean tight copy with boards very foxed to upper and lower two inches, well rubbed lower edge and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out drawing (same as jacket image) of Russian troops as frontispiece in very good condition. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn and with pieces missing. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 128pp. Pages 12 to 128 are captioned drawings by Topolski. Introduction by Sir Stafford Cripps. 'British Cruiser Iceland' in title refers to Topolski's return from Russia through the Arctic.
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Krikler, Jeremy
Revolution from above, Rebellion from Below : The Agrarian Transvaal at the Turn of the Century
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight dustiness to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of handling. 261pp. A scholarly and comprehensive study of rural society and struggle in the Transvaal during the watershed period of the early 20th century.
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Hickman, Tom
What Did You Do in the War Auntie? : The BBC at War 1939-45
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 224pp. This account of the BBC during World War II traces the development of news reporting from the Blitz to the deserts of North Africa and the beaches of Normandy, it explores the BBC's battles with the Government and it shows how it brought hope and help to the peoples of occupied Europe.
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Longstaff-Tyrrell, Peter with Berry, Patricia
The Maple Leaf Army in Britain
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 124pp. Social history from the Second World War about Canadian troops in Britain. During that time, 500,000 Canadian armed services people served part of WW2 in Britain and 40,000 British/Canadian marriages resulted.
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HERRAIZ, Ismael.
Italia fuera de combate.
Madrid, Ediciones Atlas, 1944. 4to.; 322 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
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N/A.
Sweden. A Wartime Survey. Edited and published by The Press Bureau of The Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Stockholm, 1942. 4to.; 250 pp., con ilustraciones entre el texto. Enc. original en tela.
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ACEDO COLUNGA, Felipe.
José Calvo Sotelo. La verdad de una muerte.
Barcelona, Editorial AHR, 1957 ("La Epopeya y sus Héroes"). 4to.; IX-351 pp., con 19 ilustraciones fotográficas en láminas fuera de texto. Encuadernación original en tela.
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VV.AA.
Anales de la Universidad de Murcia. Filosofía y Letras. Volúmen XVI, nº 3-4. (Manuel Muñoz Cortés: Sobre el estilo de Quevedo. Análisis del Romance "Visita de Alejandro a Diógenes Cínico", Arturo Ruiz Elvira: El problema de las fuentes literarias de la historia primitiva de Roma, Margarita Zielinski: Albert Camus a tavés de "La Peste", y Luciano de la Calzada Rodríguez: La ideología política de la Guerra de la Independencia).
Murcia, Universidad, 1956-1957. 4to. mayor; 78 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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ARAGONÉS DE LA ENCARNACION, Adolfo.
Álbum de Toledo y su Alcázar.
Toledo, Talleres Gráficos de Rafael Gómez Menor, 1947. 4to.mayor; 205 pp., 1 h., con 31 láminas aparte, con fotografías y reproducciones de documentos. Cubiertas originales.
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ARAUZ DE ROBLES, Carlos.
La vuelta al clasicismo. Ensayo crítico del liberalismo y sus secuelas socialistas.
San Sebastian, Editorial Española, 1939. 4to.; 168 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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ASENJO SEDANO, José.
Conversación sobre la Guerra.
Barcelona, 1978. 4to.; 227 pp. Encuadernación original.
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AYUSO MARAZUELA, Teófilo.
La vuelta de Bilbao. Conferencia pronunciada en la Catedral de Segovia el día 26 de Junio de 1937.
Segovia, Imprenta Artes Gráficas, 1937. 4to. mayor; 12 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BAVIER, André de.
L'Angleterre chevaleresque.
Lausanne, Librairie Payot & Cie., 1916. 4to. menor; 24 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BALLESTER, Rafael.
La Batalla del Ebro.
Barcelona, Bruguera, 1975. 4to.menor; 254 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
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BARENTS, Jan (1916-1961).
Het Nieuwe Spanje. Een Nationaal-Syndicalistische Staat.
Hilversum, Paul Brand's Uitgeversbedrijf, 1941. 4to.; 96 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BIGNON, Louis Pierre Édouard.
Anales Pintorescos de la Era Revolucionaria, desde 1789 hasta nuestros días.
Madrid - Barcelona, Librería de la Señora V. de Razola - Imprenta de Llorens, Hermanos, 1845. Folio; 1 h., 357-III pp. Con 68 láminas grabadas en acero por Audibran, H.C. Müller, A. Léfevre, Pollet, Geoffroy, Pourvoyuer, E. Laville, Beyer, Masson, Colin, Joubert, Frilley, Rouargue, Gouttière, Beyer, François, Pardinel, Langlois, Girardet, Pelée, Skelton, Bougeard.Las quince primeras páginas y 4 láminas afectadas por una roedura marginal en la parte blanca del pie. Encuadernación en media tela y cartoné, tambien afectada por la referida roedura.
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BERGIER, Jacques.
Agentes secretos contra armas secretas. Traducción de Isabel Bubge de Ducci.
Barcelona, Editorial Pomaire, 1966. 4to.; 252 pp. y 17 láminas fotográficas fuera de texto. Enc. original en tela.
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