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London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 240pp. In grey cloth boards, red and black lettering on spine. 8vo. Boards a tad rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, slightly sunned on spine. Upper text block edge a little dust darkened. Previous owner's name, dated 1954, neatly inked on front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket on front paste down, else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original, colourful dust jacket, very slightly rubbed on corners. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodard-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (v.g.), grey clothbound boards clean, red/black spine titling good; text block firm, pages unmarked; some foxing on edges.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Ten tales of horror depicting the cynacism, terror and cruelty of Hitler's Nazi regime, which whilst fictional took as their basis sworn testimony from the Nuremburg and Belsen War Trials. Not one of these stories,' writes Mr Forester in his foreword, 'tells of an actual happening, but all of them except the last could easily have happened. From the thousands of pages of matter_s worn evidence at the Nuremberg and Belsen trials, sober history, self-exculpatory memoirs, and actual documents, which have appeared since the fall of the Nazi regime, could be gathered material for many stories, most of them hardly credible on account of their cynicism or horror ... During the dozen years of the Nazi regime in Germany,' Mr Forester continues, `things happened… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. The first edition of C. S. Forester's novel about the end of Nazi Germany, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of The Nightmare by C.S. Forester, English novelist particuarly known for his naval writings, such as the Hornblower series.This novel deals with the events that took place in Nazi Germany, until the end of the Reich with the Nuremberg trials. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with titles stamped in black and red to spine. Externally, very smart with minor shelfwear only, Spine is slightly fainted. Dustwrapper is very smart, with minor shelfwear and minor closed tears and chipping to head of spine, which is slightly sunned. INternally, firmly bound. Minor faint spotting to front free endpaper and edges, affecting only the occasional gutter. Otherwise, pages are very bright. With unclipped… Read More