THE GOLDEN CARPET.
by CHAIR, Somerset de
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- Hardcover
- first
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Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber & Faber, London 1945 Reprint of the 1st trade edn. Hardback without dustwrapper. 8vo pp224. Orig yellow cloth gilt to spine & front board. Somewhat grubby & bumped but sound, contents F, and the foldout map is intact and virtually pristine; eps maps of the WWII campaign routes taken. The author was in Intelligence in the never before achieved attack on Baghdad across the desert from the Med. 21 photoplates incl. the original aerial photomaps used by the column that are not in the 1st, Golden Cockerel, edn.
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- Bookseller
- Russell Needham Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 848
- Title
- THE GOLDEN CARPET.
- Author
- CHAIR, Somerset de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, London 1945
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II MILITARY HISTORY DESERT IRAQ BAGHDAD SYRIA JORDAN
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....