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A Lamb to Slaughter : An Artist among the Battlefields
by Montyn, Jan; Kooiman, Dirk Ayelt
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0285626213
- ISBN 13
- 9780285626218
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Great Britain: Souvenir Press, 1984. Hardcover, black cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 251pp., Illustrated with phtographs, line drawings and maps. First English edition, first printing. Translated from the Dutch by Adrienne Dixon. The autobiography of a Dutch youth who "joined the German navy in a spirit of bravado, only to find himself trapped in the final, agonising throes of Germany's defeat." Subsequent tours in the French Foreign Legion and Korea led from his being a devotee of war to a confirmed pacifist. A fancnating life told with honesty and passion. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp, unread copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006633
- Title
- A Lamb to Slaughter : An Artist among the Battlefields
- Author
- Montyn, Jan; Kooiman, Dirk Ayelt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0285626213
- ISBN 13
- 9780285626218
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Biography, Anti-war Manifesto
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography and Biography;
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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