Tanks Across the Desert: The War Diary of Jake Wardrop. by Forty, George (ed) - 1981

Hardback. Very Good.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,ink owner inscrptn to top edge of ffe,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj (upper panel+spine/backstrip),with red+ black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original,plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate (owner inscrptn excepted) plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-222pp [paginated] includes illus list/table,poem,foreword by Maj-Gen W.M. Hutton (ex-CO 5th RTR), editor's preface,7 chapters,The Last Battle,profuse b/w contemporary photographs interspersed throughout the text and the… Read More

Lon.: Kimber. diary of a sergeant in the Royal Tank Corps in action in North Africa and Italy; Wardrop was later killed in action in 1945; bookplate . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1981.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.