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London: Cherry Tree Books, 1950. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Thus.. 224pp. Moderate external wear, with slt. loss to rear cover. Internally clean. No inscriptions. Scarce in this edition. Not dated but thought to be circa 1950. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Typical browning to external edges..

London: John Murray, 1928 A good copy of the second printing, red cloth binding, 348pp plus The Song of the Legion. Tight and square bindings, faded at the spine, a small name in front.

Paperback. Very Good.

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Later printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: John Murray, 1949 Brown cloth titled in dark brown on spine and upper front board. Tight and almost square, slight wear to spine and bottom corner, faint foxing in edges and endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: John Murray, 1966. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (Originally published, 1928) Smaller sturdy book, quality peach cloth, purple lettering very fine on spine, an owner's emboss at bottom of first front end paper, 248 pages. DJ bottom front inside flap cut off leaving intact the praise from The Daily Mail and The Spectator. DJ glossy white beneath mylar with stunning color-illustration of hero in Arab robes holding a dagger on front. DJ has tiny crease at bottom front edge, microtear at bottom back spine indentation, very tiny tear at middle of bottom back edge. Good DJ/Very Fine book.

John Murray, 1966. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. jacket is rubbed and a bit chipped. edge wear and knocking on boards. foxing and markings. stamp and sticker. front end page has been removed. fair copy. reprint. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: John Murray, 1930 Pale blue blind-stamped boards. Tight and square, lightly foxed edges and endpapers, name and store stamp in front. Dust jacket is unclipped, edge wear, faded and repaired at spine, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: John Murray, 1926 12mo. original red cloth gilt (rubbed & frayed, some splitting to spines, spotting & marking, prev. owner's details to upper pastedown, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 348, [4 (Song of the Legion)]. A good copy. The third Beau Geste French Foreign Legion novel set in North Africa.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket.

UsedLikeNew The cover is like new! .

New York: Stokes, 1928. First Edition - American. Bookplate. Very good plus copy with a hint of use, very minor fading to the spine, a few tiny tears to the cloth at the top and bottom of the spine, and a 1/3” faint rubbed spot to the cloth on the rear board without dust jacket. A “Beau Geste” sequel.

London: John Murray, 1957. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Dustjacket very bright, but clipped, some light wear to extremities. A sharp copy.

NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1928. black c w/gilt titles; ownr's name; 373 clean, unmarked pages; dj, in mylar, is a Grosset & Dunlap dj; book is not; . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12vo.

London: John Murray, 1926 12mo. original grey cloth (rubbed & a little nicked, some spotting & marking, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 348, [4 (Song of the Legion)]. A very good copy of the Colonial issue. The third Beau Geste French Foreign Legion novel set in North Africa.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

London: John Murray, 1952. 8vo. pp.348. previous owners stamp to free endpaper.. Some toning and odd spots of brown.Original tan cloth titled in brown. in pictorial dust wrapper Very Good Copy. Percival Christopher Wren was the first novelist to exploit the French Legion as a background to an adventure story and all his Legion novels, in spite of imitators have remained the best of their kind.

London: John Murray, 1926 VG+/VG-. 12mo. original red cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked, prev. owner's details to half-title, slight offsetting to endpapers, a few leaves carelessly opened, else internally clean) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & frayed, slight chipping at headcap, a few marks, backed on reverse with paper strengthening); pp. 348, [4 (Song of the Legion)]. A very good copy. The third Beau Geste French Foreign Legion novel set in North Africa.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth, 12mo, 373 pages; inscription in elegant pen on front free endpaper; attractively illustrated dust jacket a bit soiled and edge worn. The fifth installment in the Beau Geste series, chronicling the adventures of the men of the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. From the dust jacket: "Against the background of color- the red and blue uniforms of the Legion, the flaming desert, the green of the oasis- is this gallant theme: a man running desperate risks to save the husband of the woman he loves- a soldier's heroism in a barbarous and terrible country".

London: Murray, 1928. Book. VG. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition stated. POI to front pastedown, otherwise, a G/VG copy in a VG Grosset and Dunlap dust jacket..

New York: Stokes, 1928. First American Edition. Fine in a lightly worn, spine sunned, price-clipped dust jacket.

John Murray, 1929-1935. 5 vols: Beau Sabreur (Cheaper edn, 1929), Beau Ideal (Cheap edn, 1930), The Wages of Virtue (reprint, 1933), Beau Geste (Cheaper edn 2nd printing, 1934), Valiant Dust (Cheaper edn, 1935). 12mo. Original gilt decorated blue cloth (some light wear at edges), dustwrapper (lightly worn at edges - in protective covers). Pp. various (pages rather tanned and some vols with previous owner's neat inscriptions on front endpapers).