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CAPTAINS OF SOULS.

Wallace, Edgar, · 0

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Universal Library/Hutchinson and Co., London, ND, reprint, 254pp, small format 6 x 4 inches approx., red cloth lettered and decorated in black at spine, bordered in black upper board, advertising panel in black lower bd., sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, upper edge sl....

ANGEL ESQUIRE.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1966

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Tallis Press, Oxford, 1966, revised edn., 146pp, [iv] ads., small format about 7 x 4.5 inches, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Paton, very sl. cocked, light bump head of spine, dustwrapper lightly rubbed at extrems. with nicks at head of spine an...

ANGEL ESQUIRE.

Wallace, Edgar, · 0

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Allied Newspapers, ND, , 188pp, small format 7.5 x 4.5 inches approx., dark blue paper covered boards backed with navy blue cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, ruled in blind upper and lower boards, sl. cocked, rubbed at extrems. and surface of bds., edges tanned, ligh...

A KING BY NIGHT.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1949

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

John Long, London, 1949, 5th edn., 188th thousand, 320pp, red cloth lettered in black at spine, sl. cocked, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges tanned and foxed, light foxing to endpapers, bookseller label front pastedown, no dustwrapper, good plus,

BLACKMAIL OR WAR.

Tabouis, Genevieve (trans. by Paul Selver), · 1938

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1938, 2nd imp., paperback, 246pp, 40 in text ills. by Joss, [viii] ads., #S3, Penguin orange and white wrappers with matching dustwrapper, a Penguin Special, a political commentary by the diplomatic editor of the French newspaper l'Oeuvre, a study of ...

COURAGE IN THE SKIES - Great Air Battles From the Somme to Desert Storm.

Johnson, J. E. 'Johnnie', and Lucas, P. B. 'Laddie',, · 1916

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Stanley Paul, London, ND, 208pp, numerous coloured and half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, large format about 10 x 8 inches, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, covering 80 years of air warfare from the Somme of 1916 to the G...

THE FALL OF BERLIN.

Read, Anthony and Fisher, David, · 1992

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,481)

Hutchinson, London, 1992, 1st edn., [xiv inc, 5 maps], 513pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the fall of Berlin, opening with a description of the city at the height of its pre-WW2 fame during the 1936 Ol...

THE WAR AND COLONEL WARDEN.

Pawle, Gerald (foreword Averell Harriman), · 1963

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

George G. Harrap, London, 1963, 2nd imp., [vi], 427pp, half tone frontis port., 22pp half tone photo ills., folding map, street plan, 2 maps and facsimiles in text, dichromatic red/black cloth with black title panel lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, based on the recolle...

BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.

Pape, Richard, · 1953

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Elek, London, 1953, 4th imp., 309pp, [5pp] maps, 12pp half tone ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, dustwrapper by Val Biro, the classic tale of an airman's WW2 bombing mission: the author was navigator in an RAF Stirling returning from a Bombing mission in Germany i...

THE DOUBLE-CROSS SYSTEM in the War of 1939 to 1945.

Masterman, J. C. (foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson), · 0

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

The History Book Club, London, ND, club edn., xix, 203pp, dichromatic green/black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper, an account of British Military Intelligence and its' turning of virtually all German intelligence agents in Britain into double agents (th...

FATHERS AND SONS.

Turgenev, Ivan (trans. and intro. by Rosemary Edmonds), · 1967

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1967, 2nd imp., paperback, 237pp, [ii] ads., black spine and lower wrapper with pictorial upper wrapper, a little rubbed at extrems. with sl. surface loss lower wrapper, edges tanned and stained, ink name inside upper wrapper and on half title...

THE IMMORALIST.

Gide, Andre (trans. by Dorothy Bussy), · 1968

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin Modern Classics, Harmondsworth, 1968, 5th imp., paperback, 159pp, [i] ad., grey spine and lower wrapper with pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper and on half title, very good,

STRAIT IS THE GATE.

Gide, Andre (trans. by Dorothy Bussy), · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin Modern Classics, Harmondsworth, 1969, reissued edn., 1st in imprint, paperback, 128pp, #881, grey spine and lower wrapper with pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper, very good,

VICTORY - An Island Tale.

Conrad, Joseph, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin Modern Classics, Harmondsworth, 1966, 2nd imp., paperback, 328pp, grey spine and lower wrapper with pictorial upper wrapper by Oskar Kokoschka, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., some abrasions lower wrapper, edges tanned, ink name in side upper wrapper and on ha...

UNDER WESTERN EYES.

Conrad, Joseph, · 1969

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin Modern Classics, Harmondsworth, 1969, 4th imp., paperback, 316pp, [iii] ads., grey spine and lower wrapper with pictorial upper wrapper by Edvard Munch, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, ink name/date half title, very good,

THE MOONSTONE.

Collins, Wilkie (edited and intro. by J. I. M. Stewart), · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 528pp, #EL14, orange spine with pictorial upper wrapper, small bump tail of spine, a little rubbed at extrems. and some abrasion upper wrapper, edges tanned, ink name half title, very good,

THE SONG OF ROLAND.

Anon (trans. by Dorothy L. Sayers), · 1967

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1967, 10th imp., paperback, 206pp, [ii] ads., black wrappers lettered in white with pictorial panel upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, ink name inside upper wrapper, very good plus,

AN OLD CAPTIVITY.

Shute, Nevil, · 1965

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pan Books, London, 1965, 1st in imprint, paperback, 288pp, [i] ads., pictorial montage upper wrapper (unattrib), an aerial survey of Greenland leads to strange experiences of previous Viking visitors who may have discovered America, very sl. slant to spine, a little rubbed at...

THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH.

Lewis, C. S., · 1978

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1978, abridged edn., 16th imp., paperback, 252pp, [iv] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), sl. slant with light vertical creasing to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.

Boulle, Pierre (trans. by Xan Fielding), · 1968

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Fontana, London, 1968, 17th imp., paperback, 189pp, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), novel of Allied POW's on the Burma Railway, a little rubbed at extrems., faint creasing to wrappers, edges tanned and lightly foxed, very good,