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John Lane the Bodley Head, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. Reprinted. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black & white illustrations and plates. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Severe creasing to corner of page 111. Pages are mildly foxed & tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Visible dark mark to spine ends.
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The Battle of France
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THE BATTLE OF FRANCE.
by Maurois, Andre. Translated from the French by F.R. Ludman.
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London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1940. 210 pp + ads, 8vo (8 3/8" H). 8 b&w plates by Edward Ardizzone. "The first part is made up of sketches of the B.E.F. which were published in Paris each week from the beginning of November (1939). I had been asked by the Army Council to accompany the British forces as French official eye-witness. I was delighted to have the opportunity of joining my old friends again. We were full of hope. I spent at G.H.Q., and with the armies, several happy months. When I read what I wrote then, in perfect good faith, I wonder why and how we did not realize at once that our numbers were too small, our equipment scanty, our defence inadequate. As a matter of fact, we did realize it from time to time, but there was a conspiracy of optimism. If these sketches are now still worth reading, it will be mainly because of their significant omissions. The second part of this book is a diary of The Thirty Days War. Most of it was written, not for publication, but for my…
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The Battle of France
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The Right Book Club, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. This Edition. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil markings to half title page and back pastedown. Front free endpaper is missing. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.
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John Lane The Bodley Head, 1940. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1940. First Edition. 210 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over red cloth. Black and white illustration plates. Ex libris plate at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.
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The Battle of France
by Andre Maurois. Translated From the French By F. R. Ludman
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London England: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1940. Hardback. First Edition. The Battle of France. Slight wear to corners. Slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine. Couple of slight marks to cloth. Rolled spine. Red cloth with blue lettering. Author's Preface: This is a strangely built book. The first part - 'Pictures of the British Armies' - might be called: 'Fool's Paradise, or the War without a War'. It is made up of sketches of the B.E.F. which were published in Paris each week from the beginning of November. The second part of this book is a diary of the Thirty Days' War. Most of it was written, not for publication, but for myself. It is not perhaps the whole truth, but all of it is true - too terribly true. Illustrated. 210 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth.…
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The Battle of France
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London: John Lane, 1940. reprint. Nice Copy. octavo. chipped dust jacket 210pp., frontis., b/w plates, Interesting account of the first months of War. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone
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London: John Lane, 1940. reprint. Nice Copy. octavo. orig. cloth 210pp., frontis., b/w plates, Interesting account of the first months of War. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Neat ownership signature & spotting to edge of text block o/w a nice copy
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John Lane The Bodley Head, 1940. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered black to spine, a tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, the dust jacket is rubbed and chipped and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, , illustrated, 209pp.
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