The White Kepi, A Casual History of the French Foreign Legopm
by Kanitz, Walter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Regnery, 1956. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth covered boards. 364 pp. including notes. A history of the most notorious military contingent of modern colonial times. A very tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth and bright white pages, unmarked and apparently unread in a crisp, very tight, sharp dust jacket with some minor superficial dust/soil on white rear panel which also had two mintue nicks at edge. Very fine in near fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07937
- Title
- The White Kepi, A Casual History of the French Foreign Legopm
- Author
- Kanitz, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Regnery
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- FRENCH, FRANCE, FOREIGN, LEGION, AFRICA, ALGERIA, INFANTRY, CRIMINAL, SOCIETY, MERCENARY, BATTLE, WAR, MOROCCO, TUNISIA, LIBYA, MILITARY, HISTORY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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