geoffrey croix guerre royal de elizabeth keyes (6 résultats)

Etat : Fair. 1956. First Edition. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt titles to spine; gilt crest to front. Includes photographic plates. Map endpapers. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Prices in pencil to both endpapers. A few dog-eared corners. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book and on text block edges. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. A ring mark to front board. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is dulled and worn. Several minor dents to board edges.

Etat : Good. 1956. First Edition. 278 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Ink stamp inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear and water marks to spine and panels.

First Edition. The story of one of the heroes of Britain's desert campaign in WW2 who won the Victoria cross for his bravery in the 'Rommel Raid'. VG in VG- slightly frayed jacket which has a few number son the fron flap.

First edition. x, 278 pp. Frontispiece, & 59 other b/w photographic illustrations. A biography, told by his sister, of Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Keyes V.C. who died in the raid on General Rommel's Main Headquarters in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War. Maps on eps. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. A few spots of foxing on edges. Corners of back board bumped. Overall condition VG. In VG illustrated dust wrapper.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper mildly chafed at extremities. The story, told by his sister, of the hero of the raid on Rommel's HQ in the Western Desert in December 1941. An appendix includes an eye-witness account of Keyes' death by a German soldier present. Enser, p.111; Mulholland & Jordan, K23.

First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 278p.,[32]p. of plates : ill., facsim.,ports. ; 23cm. Subjects: Keyes, Geoffrey Charles Tasker (1917-1941). World War, (1939-1945) -- Commando operations. 1 Kg.