The Valley of the Shadow.
by WET H.O. de
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Blackwood,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. Detailed account of the author's capture, imprisonment and torture by the Gestapo; an unforgettable record of the horrors of prison life in Nazi Germany. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.149.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26192
- Title
- The Valley of the Shadow.
- Author
- WET H.O. de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackwood,
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- military, ww2, espionage, gestapo, h.o. de wet, military, espionage, pow, the, valley, the, shadow
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About the Seller
Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
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- Dustwrapper
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- Gilt
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