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London: Secker and Warburg, 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Daphne Bath (photographs). First edition first printing octavo hardback. 464 pp. Illustrated plus folding map at end Spine rubbed - title scarcely visible otherwise Good condition Contents are OK.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. First Edition. 8vo.pp.xviii + 31,with photographs in black & white + map end papers,and a fine folding map at the rear.with contemporary booksellers ticket on endpaper which has caused offsetting to opposite page, not affecting map. The endpapers and the foredges are toning. The dust wrapper is toned, chipped & price clipped but presents well. Original blue/green cloth hardcover titles in gilt in original pictorial dust wrapper. ,During the Second World War, Xan Fielding served for two years as an officer in the British Special Operations Executive on German-occupied Crete, where he ran an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Seven years later, Fielding returned to Crete to spend a year traveling in the island's White Mountains (the "stronghold" of the title), revisiting sites of his wartime exploits and seeking out former comrades who had returned to their peacetime lives. Xan Fielding was a British writer and traveler, and a… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket xvii + 317pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Very nice copy in green boards in a nice unclipped John Craxton dust jacket. Very scarce in this condition

Lon.: Secker. nice copy; very light foxing to endpaper . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1953.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 317pp. Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, map-illustrated endpapers, seventeen captioned photographs and a multi-panel folding map at the rear. Edges lightly spotted, and with a scattering of further light spotting to the margins of a dozen concluding leaves. Some toning and light spotting to the free endpapers. Handsome former owner bookplate to a blank preliminary leaf, and with the inked name of the same owner above. A very good copy in the splendid Craxton colour dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but with some toning to the spine panel, and a little minor spotting and wear, and several small areas of loss from the spine panel ends (impacting the "The" of the title) and several corner tips. The author's first book, an uncommon account of his year-long return to Crete after the conclusion of WWII. Fielding… Read More