Defeat.
by Moss, Geoffrey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Hutchinson, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. With a 7 page preface by Harold Nicolson. 270 pages with 32 page Hutchinson Catalogue for Summer 1932. Front endpapers a little foxed, as is the title page. Contents nice and clean. Original orange cloth, titled and ruled in black. Dust jacket with label removed from base of spine, slight wear, see picture First published in 1924 this collection of short stories is set in post world War 1 Germany in a sympathetic way. It includes the story 'Isn't Life Wonderful!' which was filmed by D W Griffith in 1924. This edition, with the Nicolson preface, even scarcer than the first edition. Moss, 1885-1954 was a professional soldier who retired in 1919 to write fulltime
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- Gordon Hughes (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5008
- Title
- Defeat.
- Author
- Moss, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, 1932
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- modern first edition war military ww1
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