Moonlight on a Lake in Bond Street by Watts, Stephen - 1962

New York: W.W. Norton & Company. dj sl sw & sl tear, signed by owner, VG/VG. 1962. 1st US Edition.

New York: W.W.Norton & Co. dj has trs,chps,edgwr , stain top sp & uper left cnr ow G/G. 1961. 1st US Edition.

New York: W. W. Norton, 1962. Book. Good. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: W. W. Norton, 1962. Stated First American Edition. Good/Good. Stated First American Edition in original dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Previous owner first name on front free endpaper. 208 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), has closed tears, scrapes, creasing to edges. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's personal story of his experiences during World War II in British Intelligence, blending humor, drama, and understanding for those millions who were by nature civilians and whose lot for so long was military..

W.W. Norton & Co., (1962). 1st Am. ed.. Light shelf wear & very light fading to cvrs. VG in worn but Good- chipped d.j..

London: The Bodley Head. Very Good in Good dj. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. [spine a bit turned, lower corners bumped, otherwise a good sound copy; jacket heavily edgeworn with a bit of paper loss at most extremities, rear hinge split about one-third up from the bottom]. INSCRIBED briefly and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A collection of "occasional pieces" (both anecdotal reminiscences and short stories) by the author, all deriving from his experiences during World War II; the book is described by him as "a series of loosely related, uncomprehensive, unheroic items about what we were like then and the sort of things that happened to us and around us." The author was a Scottish-born film and drama critic, who during the war took part in a famous deception involving a double for General Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") in the run-up to D-Day. (The jacket blurb suggests that his account of this episode -- included in this volume under the title… Read More

Very Good. VG++ book & jacket. Book club edition.

the bodley head london 1961. ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc) 208pp VG+(v sl gum stains to ep's & boards,v sl bruised corners,v sl bumped spine head & foot) d/w VG+(in plastic, v sl rubbed)

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Bodley Head, 1961. 1st edition. Nice Copy. 8vo.. orig. cloth 208pp.,, A British journalist recalls his adventures while serving in Commando and Intelligence units of the British army in World War II.

The Bodley Head, 1961T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. The Bodley Head 1961 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.