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Mission Marcel-Proust: The Story of an Unusual O.S.S. Undertaking. Signed copy.
by [World War II, France]. BOOTH, Colonel Walter B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink in the year of publication at the first blank page by Colonel Booth. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top corners bruised, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in very good lightly soiled & foxed dust jacket, with brief edge wear including a short closed tear & a couple of nicks.
The author was the commanding officer of the Proust program which sent French military personnel recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the C.I.A.) to France to produce intelligence for the Allied invasion at Normandy. This copy is inscribed "with thanks" to Carroll Godwin who was news director, anchorman and talk show host at WCSC- Channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Mission Marcel Proust "is a story of incredible heroism displayed by patriotic Frenchmen and of their amazing accomplishments. Frustrations and difficulties abound and the horrors of war surround them, but they are still capable of the ingenius and daring exploits which the author describes with pride." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1617
- Title
- Mission Marcel-Proust: The Story of an Unusual O.S.S. Undertaking. Signed copy.
- Author
- [World War II, France]. BOOTH, Colonel Walter B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dorrance & Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- (1972)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- World War II, Espionage, O.S.S., C.I.A., Walter B. Booth, Signed, France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History; Europe; World War II; South Carolina; Signed; Espionage;
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- Foxed
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