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El Alamein to the River Sangro
by Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein [MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law]
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1949. First US Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. Large 8vo. Pp. 192. Frontis. color map. Illustrated with sixteen additional colored fold-out maps. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, Eighth Army insignia blind stamped on the cover. Lower corners at trifle bumped, spine ends, two fold-out maps partially severed at the folds in an apparent binding and trimming error, leaves crisp and bright. In the two color dust jacket: front flap price torn away, edges rubbed, short, closed tears. Personal account of the great campaigns against Rommel's German forces that made "Monty" and the British Eighth Army famous.
An attractive copy with the dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7142
- Title
- El Alamein to the River Sangro
- Author
- Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein [MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
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About the Seller
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About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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