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MOLLO A.
Uniforms of the SS. Collected Edition. Volumes 1 to 6. [Collected Edition].
Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with many hundreds of photographs and drawings in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Mollo and Taylor's standard reference was originally published in seven volumes between 1963 and 1976. The first six volumes have been individually updated and re-issued; the scarce seventh volume has not been reprinted to date. The six volumes included here comprise: 1. Allgemeine-SS 1923-1945 (Mollo; fourth edition, 1991); 2. Germanische-SS 1940-1945 (Taylor, third edition, 1991); 3. SS-Verfugungstruppe 1933-1939 (Mollo & Taylor, third edition, 1991); 4. SS-Totenkopfverbande 1933-1945 (Mollo, second edition, 1991); 5. Sicherheitsdienst und Sicherheitspolizei 1931-1945 (Mollo, second edition, 1992); 6. Waffen-SS Clothing and Equipment 1939-1945 (Mollo, second edition, 1992). The seventh volume, Waffen-SS Badges and Unit Distinctions 1939-1945 (1976), is not included in this edition.
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MACMUNN G.
Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917. [Vol. I only]. A CAMBERLEY COPY FROM THE BRACKENBURY BEQUEST
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 6 large folding panoramas in sepia-toned collotype, 16 full-page maps in red and black and 2 full-page diagrams in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps, most original tissue guards present; original red cloth, gilt back, case a little shaken (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY FORMED PART OF THE BRACKENBURY BEQUEST TO THE STAFF COLLEGE, CAMBERLEY. It bears the fine engraved armorial Brackenbury bookplate on front paste-down, the Camberley stamp (cancelled) together with several date stamps on half-title, and 'not to be retained' label on front board. Published in the official series 'History of the Great War', based on official documents by direction of the historical section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. This first (of two) volumes covers the commands of Maxwell and Murray, and deals with the defence of Suez, the advance across Sinai into Southern Palestine and First and Second Gaza. It also includes the campaign against the Senussi, minor operations in the Sudan and against the Sultan of Darfur, and the outbreak of the Arab Revolt (aided by Lawrence). Co-compiler Cyril Falls is the author of the standard WWI bibliography 'War Books' (1930). The separate portfolio of maps is not present with this copy. Scarce in this original edition. Enser, p.250; Falls, p.53.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume 2: SA; Feldherrnhalle; SS; NSKK; NPEA; RAD; Hitlerjugend.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. Second of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume 3: DLV/NSFK; Diplomats; Red Cross; Police and Fire; RLB; TENO; Customs; Reichsbahn; Postal; Hunting and Forestry.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. Third of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume 4: Recently Surfaced Rare and Unusual Dress Daggers Hermann Göring Recently Surfaced Rare and Unusual Dress Daggers, Hermann Göring Bejeweled Dress Daggers; Reproductions.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. Fourth of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume I: Army; Luftwaffe; Kriegsmarine.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. First of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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PATERSON'S GUIDE
Paterson's Guide to the Rhine and its Provinces.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 tinted and monochrome maps (6 double-page and 6 full-page) on japon, and a large folding map at end, endpapers browned; original red limp cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, radial corners, very neatly recased, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Scarce.
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OSBORNE S.
Germany and her Jews.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Includes summary biographies of many notable German Jews. Scarce in this condition.
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BESSEL Richard
Nazism and War.
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A powerful, chilling and illuminating account of the rise and fall of Nazism, including a perceptive description of the long-term aftermath of WWII.
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BOYCE Frederic
SOE's Ultimate Deception. Operation Periwig. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated account of SOE's audacious scheme to bring about administrative collapse in Germany during the closing months of WWII.
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GIBBONS Floyd
The Red Knight of Germany. Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Airman. With Drawings by Clayton Knight. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and 7 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1930.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
Monty's Iron Sides. From the Normandy Beaches to Bremen with the 3rd Division. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
Taming the Panzers: Monty's Tank Battalions. 3 RTR at War.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Smith, p.85; Sutcliffe, p.127.
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DOLLINGER Hans
The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. A Pictorial History of the Final Days of WWII. Technical Adviser Dr. Hans-Adolf Jacobsen. Translated from the German by Arnold Pomerans.
Roy. 8vo., First English Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout, and front and rear photographic endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Arranged chronologically by sector, this spectacular collection of photographs includes many lesser known theatres, particularly in the Pacific. Originally published in Munich in 1965.
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FOLEY Charles
Commando Extraordinary. With a Foreword by Major-General Sir Robert Laycock, Chief of Combined Operations 1943-47. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Classic account of the wartime exploits of Otto Skorzeny, including the liberation of Mussolini, the snatching of Horthy from Budapest Castle and the 'disguised brigade' which confused the Americans on their way into Germany. Laycock's foreword gives the historical context and looks ahead to the increasing need for units like the RM Commandos and the SAS in the future of military operations. Enser, p.406
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FOLEY Charles
Commando Extraordinary. With a Foreword by Major-General Sir Robert Laycock, Chief of Combined Operations 1943-47. [Special Forces Library edition.] FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Arms & Armour's 'Special Forces Library', this is a good quality facsimile (but without the plates) of the original edition of 1954. Classic account of the wartime exploits of Otto Skorzeny, including the liberation of Mussolini, the snatching of Horthy from Budapest Castle and the 'disguised brigade' which confused the Americans on their way into Germany. Laycock's foreword gives the historical context and looks ahead to the increasing need for units like the RM Commandos and the SAS in the future of military operations.
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HOGG (intro.) I.V.
German Order of Battle 1944. The Regiments, Formations and Units of the German Ground Forces. Introduction by I.V. Hogg. Photographic Section by Brian L. Davis [PBS Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with 25 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear. Indispensable guide to German Army and Waffen-SS ground units. Published simultaneously with the Arms & Armour edition. Not recorded by Enser.
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KENNY Mary
Germany Calling. A Personal Biography of William Joyce, 'Lord Haw-Haw'.
8vo., First Edition, with 17 plates on 8; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The best modern biography, written with the co-operation of Joyce's eldest daughter and his colleague James Clark. It includes new material released through the British Public Records Office and interviews with those who knew Haw-Haw personally. Already uncommon in this condition.
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KUHN Volkmar
German Paratroops in World War II. [Translated from the German by H.A. and J.A. Barker].
8vo., First English Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a mint copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in Germany in 1974, this is probably the best overall summary of the 'Green Devils' to date. After a detailed analysis of Crete, it deals also with the paratroops as infantry - in Africa, Italy (notably Cassino) and elsewhere
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LUMSDEN R.
Edged Weapons of Hitler's Germany.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Includes swords, daggers, knives and bayonets of the armed forces.
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PALMER P.
Denmark in Nazi Chains. With Foreword by Vernon Bartlett.
8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 7 and a map; original printed wrappers, a good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little browned and frayed at edges. Early account by former London edition of 'BT' and 'Scannews Agency' of Copenhagen. Published in the series 'Europe under the Nazis'. Scarce.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Road to Ruin. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; original boards, darkened at edges as often, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, uncut, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Keynes, A38.
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SELWYN Francis
Hitler's Englishman. The Crime of 'Lord Haw-Haw' [William Joyce]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of Joyce's life and propaganda broadcasts to Britain which led to his execution in 1946.
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TARRANT V.E.
The Red Orchestra.
8vo., First Edition, with 4 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Best and most detailed study of the Soviet spy network operting inside Germany in WWII.
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THOMAS Hugh
The Murder of Rudolf Hess. [With an Introduction by Rebecca West].
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and 4 maps ands facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.97
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WHITING Charles
West Wall. The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line September 1944 - March 1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'The Spellmount Siegfried Line series', vol. 1.
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WHITING Charles
Paths of Death and Glory: The War in Europe January - May 1945. The Last Days of the Third Reich.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WRAGG David
Plan Z. The Nazi Bid for Naval Dominance.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COOPER Alan W.
The Air Battle of the Ruhr. RAF Offensive March to July 1943. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account including aircraft losses, command structure, Bomber Command groups and comprehensive register of missing aircraft and aircrew with fates where known.
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TAYLOR R.
Royal Air Force Germany since 1945.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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MACKAY Alan
313 Days to Christmas. A Human Record of War and Imprisonment. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations ands facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a mint copy in the dustwrapper. The story of the 'Daily Recco', a newspaper produced by the inmates of Stalag Luft III.
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KERSTEN Felix
The Kersten Memoirs 1940-1945. With an Introduction by H. .Trevor-Roper. Translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon and James Oliver. [First English Edition]. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition, some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, yellow top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. With the erratum slip facing Contents. Felix Kersten was personal physician to Himmler and close to many of the Nazi leadership and these journals of meetings and conversations, the majority written on the spot, make fascinating reading. Towards the end of the war he was responsible for saving many thousands of Dutchmen, Germans, Norwegians, Danes and Jews from his employer's clutches. Very scarce in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.266.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
The Fighting Wessex Wyverns. From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Well-illustrated resume of this renowned West Country formation, including its role in XXX Corps in Market Garden. The first edition in cloth is now scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
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TSCHUPPIK K.
Franz Joseph I. Der Untergang Eines Reiches.
8vo., First Edition, text in German, with plates, endpapers mildly browned; original tan cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
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MOSSMAN S.
Marquard Von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life in Late Medieval Germany. The Passion, the Eucharist, the Virigin Mary.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy. Detailed and scholary study. SCARCE
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ROHL J.C.G.
Young Wilhelm. The Kaiser's Early Life 1859-1888. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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PACKULL W.O.
Mysticism and the Early South German-Austrian Anabaptist Movement 1525-153. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition; brown faux-morocco, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History No. 19.
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BAEDEKER Karl
Northern Germany excluding the Rhineland. Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker. Seventeenth Revised Edition. THE LAST EDITION IN ENGLISH BEFORE WWII
Sm. 8vo., Seventeenth Edition, with a folding double-page coloured map as frontispiece (one short tear neatly repaired), 26 folding coloured maps on 24, 20 double-page coloured maps, 72 full-page coloured maps, mileage chart on half-title verso, numerous plans in the text, publisher's catalogue on front free endpapers and rear endpaper map; original red cloth, upper board blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, marbled edges, two silk markers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The folding maps and plans are on japon. First published in 1870. This was the last edition in English before the outbreak of WWII. Scarce in this condition.
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BERNHARDI F. von.
How Germany makes War. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, tiny age-mark on title; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Condensed version, published at the outbreak of the Great War, of the author's larger 'On War of Today' translated from the German by Hugh Rees.
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OVEN Wilfred von
Hitler's Storm Troopers. A History of the SA. The Memoirs of Wilfred von Oven. Introduction by Eleanor Hancock. Translated by Geoffrey Brooks. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First English Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first appearance in English of Oven's invaluable memoirs
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MARTELLI George
Agent Extraordinary. The Story of Michel Hollard. [With a Foreword by Sir Brian Horrocks].
8vo., First Edition, with plates and 3 maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail, and lightly browned at backstrip. Among his many other achievements, Hollard was the first agent to provide British Intelligence with detailed drawings of a V1 launching site. Captured after some one hundred secret missions, he survived Neuengamme to become known as 'the man who saved London'. Enser, p.399
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LE CARRE John
The Looking-Glass War [with] A Small Town in Germany. [WHS Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition thus; blue cloth backstrip lettered in white a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first omnibus edition of these two early Le Carre novels was published jointly by Heinemann Secker & Warburg and Octopus. This is the first - and scarcest - edition published exclusively for W H Smith. SCARCE.
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WEITZ John
Joachim von Ribbentrop. Hitler's Diplomat. Introduction by Tom Wolfe. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; black cloth gilt back cream endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SPEER Albert
The Slave State. Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy. Translation by Joachim Neugroschel. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition; olive cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.109.
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SERENY Gitta
Albert Speer: his Battle with Truth. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates and pictorial endpapers; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BUTLER Rupert
Hitler's Jackals. 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. An account of the nations collaborating with Hitler during WWII and the subsequent burdens borne by them following Nazi defeat.
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RUSSELL John
A Tour in Germany. and some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. Second Edition. REMARKABLY FRESH COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
2 vols., sm. 8vo., Second Edition; most attractively bound in contemporary full tan calf, boards with elaborate floral frame border in blind, back with flat bands ruled in gilt, second and third compartments with black leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy. With fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down of first volume.
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FORSYTH Frederick
The Odessa File. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the author's second novel, and the basis of Ronald Neame's feature film (1974) starring Jon Voight and Maximilian Schell.
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BRUHNS Wibke
My Father's Country. The Story of a German Family. [Translated by Shaun Whiteside]. [First English Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FORSYTH Frederick
The Odessa File. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. Bright copy of the author's second novel, and the basis of Ronald Neame's feature film (1974) starring Jon Voight and Maximilian Schell.
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