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WARD LOCK LTD
A Handbook to Switzerland. Ninth Edition - Revised.
Sm. 8vo., Ninth Edition, with a folding coloured map (one small tear) as frontispiece, 59 plates on 48 and 12 folding maps (5 coloured); original series binding of red cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, radial corners, red and blue sprinkled edges, a very good, clean copy. With the small trade stamp of Robert of Geneve on front paste-down.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire. [North-West Europe 1944-5]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; original pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACDONALD Charles
By Air to Battle. [Purnell's History of the Second World War. Weapons Book No. 12.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First UK Edition, with photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Enser, p.19.
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DUTTON Ralph
Normandy and Brittany. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, 99 monochrome plates on 66 and 5 maps (4 full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEVENSON Francis Seymour
A History of Montenegro. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, some light age-staining, fore-edges mildly mottled; original red ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small inked Dewey on backstrip. Extremely scarce. No copy is listed in BLPC.
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KESSLER Leo
The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. April 1945.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BEEVOR Antony
Paris after the Liberation.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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KERILLIS Henri de
I Accuse Ge Gaulle. Translated from the French by Harold Rosenberg . IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright,, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped (without material loss) at extremities. First edition in English of the author's critical assessment of De Gaulle's standing immediately after the Armistice. Kerillis was a WWI aviation ace and member of the French Chamber of Deputies just before the war. For obvious political reasons this work was not published in the UK. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.173.
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PARKER (ed.) Danny S.
Hitler's Ardennes Offensive. The German View of the Battle of the Bulge. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILKINS Kim
The Autumn Castle. Europa Suite: 1, FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER.
8vo., First Edition; orange cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COOPER Artemis
Patrick Leigh Fermor. An Adventure. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a double-page facsimile as frontispiece, numerous plates, and 4 maps in the text; dark blue cloth, gilt back, olive endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of Artemis Cooper's long-awaited biography of Paddy Leigh Fermor.
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ROWE Vivian
Return to Normandy.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the series 'Windows on the World'. Uncommon in the dustwrapper.
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TREVELYAN G.M.
Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic [with] Garibaldi and the Thousand [with] Garibaldi and the Making of Italy. THE GARIBALDI TRILOGY COMPLETE
3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with 3 frontispieces, 114 plates on 82, 9 maps in the text and 7 folding coloured maps on japon at end; original brown cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, clean, firm set. The set comprises: Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic 1848-9 (1928); Garibaldi and the Thousand May 1860, (1938); Garibaldi and the Making of Italy June-November 1860 (1928).The first editions were published in 1907, 1909 and 1911 respectively. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE
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WILLIAMS P.M.
De Gaulle's Republic.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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TURNER Elsie Grey
The Casting of a Pebble. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 15 plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cover the author's travels in Spain, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany and Italy, as well as Canada and the US.
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CLEMENCEAU Georges
In the Evening of My Thought. Translated by Charles Miner Thompson and John Heard. [First US Edition]. FIRST US EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., First US Edition, with portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, uncut, backstrip gilt faded virtually to blind else a very good, crisp, clean copy.
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HALLAM Henry
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. Fifth Edition. IN NINETEENTH CENTURY MOROCCO
3 vols., 8vo., Fifth Edition; strongly bound in mind-nineteenth century half morocco, straight-grain red cloth boards, backs with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green floral endpapers, a very good, bright, firm set.
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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General Brian
A Full Life. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 10 maps in the text; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography by one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in Operation GARDEN). Enser, p.266.
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STOTHARD P.
On the Spartacus Road. A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; dark blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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DOHERTY Richard
Only the Enemy in Front. (Every other Beggar behind). The Recce Corps at War 1940-1946. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with 22 plates on 12 and 15 maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated history of the Corps. Published in the same year as the first edition.
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LOW David
Europe at War. A History in Sixty Cartoons with a Narrative Text.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with many full-page illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, covers just a little browned else a remarkably bright, clean copy.
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LUCAS Edward Verrall
A Wanderer among Pictures. A Companion to the Galleries of Europe.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 71 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; red cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end. Prance A159.
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WHITESIDE J.
Italy in the Nineteenth Century. A New Edition. [First One-Volume Edition]. IN CONTEMPORARY FULL ROAN
8vo., First Edition thus, with an engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved plates, some faint and occasional spotting, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; attractively bound in contemporary red full roan, sides with gilt frame border, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, very neatly rebacked to style, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With the nineteenth century trade ticket of Deighton of Worcester on front paste-down. The frontispiece is by Henshall after Turner; the plates by Cooke after Bonington and others. 'In the present edition, I have by a careful revision, compressed the substantial contents of three volumes into one, not omitting anything of permanent interest' (Author's Preface). First published in three volumes in 1848.
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ANGOULEME] [Duchess of (Marie Therese Charlotte de Bourbon)
Private Memoirs, which, with the Work of M. Hue, and the Journal of Clery, complete the History of the Captivity of the Royal Family of France in the Temple. Translated from the French, with Notes. [First English Edition.] RARE ACCOUNT OF THE 'TERROR' IN ENGLISH
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, small age-mark on half-title verso; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral motif, joints cracked (but hinges and binding entirely sound), a most attractive and remarkably crisp, clean copy. Complete with half-title, and 6pp publisher's catalogue (dated February 1817) bound in at end. RARE. We have seen this edition confused with a very similar but shorter (and apparently less elusive) version of Angouleme's memoirs published by Constable in Edinburgh later the same year. NICE COPY OF A KEY DOCUMENTARY RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, THE REVOLUTION AND THE TERROR, AND AFTER CLERY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF LOUIS XVI.
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FARSON Negley
Sailing Across Europe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous plates and endpaper maps, free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth, gilt back, uncut, boards lightly sunned else an unusually bright, clean copy. Well-above average copy of Farson's account of sailing the canals from Holland to the Black Sea in the summer of 1925. SCARCE
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JOHN MURRAY Ltd
Murray's Handy Classical Maps. Gallia. [Edited by C.B. Grundy]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo. with large folding coloured map and gazetteer; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL.
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JOHN MURRAY Ltd
Murray's Handy Classical Maps. Mare Aegaeum. [Edited by C.B. Grundy]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo. with large folding coloured map and gazetteer; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL.
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ALLEN Peter
One More River. The Rhine Crossings of 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser p.239.
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BRADBY G.F.
The Great Days of Versailles. Studies from Court Life in the later Years of Louis XIV. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo. Second Edition with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); burgundy cloth gilt back a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1906.
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NEAVE Airey
Saturday at M.I.9. A History of Underground Escape Lines in North-West Europe in 1940-5 by a leading Organiser at M.I.9. [Second Impression]
8vo., Second Impression, with a portrait frontispiece, 25 plates on 14, 6 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps, some light age-browning to text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, clean copy. Published in the same monthas the first edition. The first account of the escape lines by an insider, himself the first British officer to escape from Colditz. Tragically, Airey Neave was assassinated by the INLA at the Houses of Parliament in 1979. Enser, p.151
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VANVITELLI Jr Luigi
Vita di Luigi Vanvitelli. [Edited by Mario Rotili]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, text in Italian, with coloured portrait frontispiece, and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE.
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CONSOLO, Vincenzo
La Terra di Archimede. Fotografi di Mimmo Jodice. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, text in Italian, with numerous fine full-page coloured photographs throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board with coloured illustration (repeated from text) and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Superb and lavish photography.
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ARNOLD E.N.
A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. Illustrated by Denys Ovenden. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and numerous line illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth boards, covers very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
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SUMPTION Jonathan
The Hundred Years War. Trial by Battle [with] Trial by Fire [with] Divided Houses [with] Cursed Kings. THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR TETRALOGY COMPLETE IN PAPERBACK
4 vols., 8vo., First Paperback Edition (mixed impressions), with numerous maps and plans (many full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine set. Sumption's masterly history comprises Vol. I: Trial by Battle (1990; first paperback edition 1999); Vol. II: Trial by Fire (1999; first paperback edition 2001); Vol. III: Divided Houses (2009; first paperback edition, second impression, 2012); Vol. IV: Cursed Kings (first paperback edition, ninth impression, 2016) COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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LISSONI Osvaldo
Il Castello di Milano. Castle of Milan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MONMARCHE Georges
Paris. Photos de Marcelle D'Heilly. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout, small signature on title; pictorial wrappers, a good, clean copy.
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CAMERON Mary Lovett
The Inquiring Pilgrim's Guide to Assisi. to which is added the First Life of S. Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edge lightly spotted; burgundy cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at edges and wanting top quarter of backstrip. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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ROE F.C.
Modern France. An Introduction to French Civilization. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of a work first published in 1956.
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BRIDGES A.
Sugar Beet in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and large folding chart on japon, some mild offsetting from fold-in to title; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BEEVOR Antony
Ardennes 1944. Hitler's Last Gamble NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DE LEE Nigel
Voices from the Battle of the Bulge. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs in the text and double-page map; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FORD Richard
A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home. Describing the Country and Cities, the Natives and their Manners; the Antiquities, Religion, Legends, Fine Ars, Literature, Sports and Gastronomy. Foreword by Sir John Balfour. Edited and with an Introduction by Ian Robertson. NEAR FINE SET OF THE CENTAUR EDITION
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 frontispieces and 2 large folding maps; navy cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, a near fine set. The set comprises Vol. I: Preliminary Remarks and Andalucia; Vol. II: Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, Estremadura, Leon and Gallicia; Vol. III: The Asturias, The Castiles (Old and New), The Basque Provinces, Arragon and Navarre. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MAUCLAIR Camille
Normandy. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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CLARKE Moma
Paris. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text; original series binding of buff cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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DEBRAYE Henry
Touraine and its Chateaux. [The Picture Guides series]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text, original series binding of green cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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FAURE Gabriel
The Land of St. Francis of Assisi. Assisi and Perugia. [The Picture Guides series. Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., Second Impression thus, with sepia-toned title-vignette and very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in the previous year. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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FERRAND Henri
Grenoble and Thereabouts. Chartreuse, Oisans, Vercors, Belledone, Uriage-les-Bains, Allevard, Trieves, Salette, Laffrey. [The Picture Guides series. Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., Second Impression, with title and text in sepia, title-vignette, very numerous photographs in the text and front endpaper map; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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PRAVIEL Armand
Biarritz, Pau and the Basque Country. [The Picture Guides series]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and front endpaper map, endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of brown cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire. [North-West Europe 1944-5]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS WARM SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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AREND Guy Franz
The Battle for Bastogne. 'The Hole in the Doughnut'. A chronological History of the Battle of Bastogne. [Translated from the original French by Tim Hayward. Preface by General McAuliffe. First English Edition]. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and maps throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. Includes OOB.
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