NAPOLEON OF THE SNOWS.
by ADYE, John, Viscount Allenby (Intro)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise clean, very good. Decent copy.
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London,, 1931. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise clean, very good. Decent copy. . 8vo. pp 279. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. A detailed account of Bonaparte's daily movements and activities from the sixth of May 1800 to the fourteenth of June in the same year, when he fought the battle of Marengo. Bookplate of film director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes (1926-2013). An attractive personalised bookplate with the printed initials B.J.F and a stylised tree with large leaves and cones with a bee beneath.
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- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C19502
- Title
- NAPOLEON OF THE SNOWS.
- Author
- ADYE, John, Viscount Allenby (Intro)
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise clean, very good. Decent copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 1931
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