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Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent. Introduced by Clare Mulley. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE: WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONS AND EXTRA LARGE MAP

Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent. Introduced by Clare Mulley. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE: WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONS AND EXTRA LARGE MAP

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Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent. Introduced by Clare Mulley. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE: WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONS AND EXTRA LARGE MAP

by FIELDING Xan

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Folio Society,, 2014. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 12 pages of colour and monochrome plates, a large folding coloured map and endpaper charts; pictorial olive cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid and important edition of Fielding's classic account of SOE operations in Crete. The photographs are previously unpublished. THIS COPY IS COPIOUSLY AND NEATLY ANNOTATED ON FRONT AND REAR ENDPAPERS. THE ANNOTATIONS INCLUDE A FULL GLOSSARY OF PERSONS AND PLACES, AND THERE IS ALSO A LARGE FOLDING COLOURED MAP IN HAND-MADE POCKET ON REAR PASTE-DOWN.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent. Introduced by Clare Mulley. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE: WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONS AND EXTRA LARGE MAP
Author
FIELDING Xan
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Folio Society,
Date Published
2014
Keywords
folio society, military, ww2, wwii, fielding, xan fielding, crete, soe, special operations executive

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