White Squadron

The Adventurers Club, London, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Tells of the volunteers known as "The White Squadron" in the Libyan and Saharan Deserts in opposing drug and slave traffickers and the author's time with this group as a young woman. Crisp clean unclipped dust-jacket, fresh covers with gilt lettering on… Read more about this item

The Adventurers Club, 1961. 1st ed VG in VG- dw. the story of a young Italian girl who joined The White Squadron, patrolling the Sahara desert on a camel, fighting Arab drug and slave traffickers. I always assumed this to be a true story as it was published by The Adventurers Club, and the book implies… Read more about this item

Robert Hale Limited, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Edition. 186 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations and a map throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text and illustrations remain clear. Binding is firm. Boards have minimal shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt to spine is… Read more about this item

Robert Hale, 1961. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with nicks at the corners. Price Clipped. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Slight shelf cock. Text complete, clean and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (orange boards… Read more about this item

London: The Adventurer's Club, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 186 pp, with map, photographs. A clean, tightly bound copy with no visible wear. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light dust soiling to the rear panel, but remains quite attractive; in a new mylar cover. At the age of 17, the author ran away from her… Read more about this item

London: The Adventurers Club, 1961. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 5.75 x 8.5 inches (14.5 x 22 cm). Dust jacket: Slight fading to spine, very light marking to rear cover, unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: Black cloth binding, foxing to top page edge, otherwise in very clean condition throughout.… Read more about this item

London: The Adventurers Club. G: in Good condition with faded dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 186pp. B/w photographs. .

Robert Hale, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Published in GB. 186 pages. Illustrative jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with… Read more about this item

London: The Adventurer's Club, 1961.. Forty men and a girl made up the White Squadron, which battled against the ruthless Arab drug and slave traffickers in the remote areas of the Sahara and Libyan deserts....When she was seventeen years old, the author ran away from school in Rome to join her uncle, her only living relative, who was then… Read more about this item

The Adventurers Club, 1961 Female drug and slave runner crusader fighter in North Africa desert Like new with DJ. True stories.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Robert Hale, London.1961. 1st. edn. Hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. 8vo. pp186, 14 b/w photo-illus. Orig. tan cloth, gilt to spine. VG+ with v. slight bumping to lower spine & neat inscr. to fep. Dustwrapper fade to spine with small tears to lower & upper spine with creased upper foredge from being used as a page mark. Closed tears to front… Read more about this item

London: The Adventurer's Club. 1961. 8vo, pp. 186, b/w plates, map, small piece missing fore-edge rear free endpaper, tear to margin pp. 186, minor foxing fore-edge, original boards, good, in d.j. spine sunned, few marks rear. Authors account of her time as part of a squadron battling Arab drug and slave traffickers in remote Libya and the Sahara. … Read more about this item

The Adventurers Club, 1961 Female drug and slave runner crusader fighter in North Africa desert Like new with DJ. True stories.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

The Adventurers Club. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Dw has fading to spine, minor surface discolouring to lower panel, sl wear to some edges/corners. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 186 pages .