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Rommel (The Great Commanders)
by Douglas-Home, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD/GD/GD
- ISBN 10
- 0297766252
- ISBN 13
- 9780297766254
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "HARD TOO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint/Revised. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 19 * Publisher: 1973. * Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Heavy rubs to edges and corners, considerable shelf wear overall. Front hinge slightly split. GD.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £2.95. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Now in replacement clear un-attached protective jacket. GD++ * Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp and tight with some reading wear. Some reading wear & slight marks throughout especially to edges and margins. GD.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and line drawn photos throughout. A few colour plates.* Pages: 218 pp. text. vii pp.bibliography, list of illustrations, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: One of the "Great Commanders" series, general editor Lord Chalfont. Of the greatest names in German military history, Rommel stands out as a man apart. His exploits during his years of battle showed a breath-taking audacity and an imaginative approach to fighting consistent with the greatest Commanders of all time.* A GOOD EX-LIBRARY copy of the 1st/1st with considerable age and shelf-wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5936
- Title
- Rommel (The Great Commanders)
- Author
- Douglas-Home, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD/GD/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0297766252
- ISBN 13
- 9780297766254
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 225
- Date Published
- 1973-10-18
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