The Golden Carpet [Limited to 30 copies] by DE CHAIR, Somerset - 1943

Harcourt Brace, 1945. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 252 pages. Bent cover, moderate wear and yellowing; name inside; a good solid book. No jacket. Some illustrations. Illustrated endpapers of "Route followed by Kingstone's column." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 202708. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good; scuffed and edge-worn cover.

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.

London: Faber & Faber. 1945. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Yellow boards with title patch to spine. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps on Endpapers. Previous owner's name/details to prelims. Bookplate to front pastedown. Fold-out Map to rear. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. The campaign in the middle East and the capture of Baghdad. . 3rd Impression. Hardback.

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good-; Foxing to surface of book.. 1944. Hardcover. Third impression 1955. Coloured maps on endpaper, foldout map looks as never opened. Index, appendix. 450gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .

Faber, 1944T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First American edition harcourt Brace on black cloth

Harcourt Brace and Co 1945. First US edition octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable.They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Faber, London. 1944. First one-volume edition. 8vo, 224pp, with black and white illustrations, coloured maps to endpapers and one coloured fold-out map to rear. A good hardback copy in edgeworn and foxed dust jacket with loss to spine ends and screasing to edges. Foxing to fore edges and endpapers.

Faber, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1946. Fourth Impression. 224 pages. Dust jacket over yellow cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are bright and clear with mild foxing and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters with netting slightly exposed but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall with heavy loss and creasing to front panel.

London: Faber and Faber [1945], 3rd printing. (Hardcover) 224pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Map endpapers, frontispiece, photographs, folding map, appendix, index. Locale: Baghdad; Iraq; Middle East; Palestine; Syria; Trans-Jordan. (World War 2).