Backwater war by Peggy Woodford - 1975

New York, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Hardcover First Ed USA, so stated. First Ed USA, so stated. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ: Both book and DJ show indications of very careful use. Book shows just a touch of wear to extremtiies; the former owner's inked name has been crossed out at the lower front free endpaper, which also shows staple marks in a couple of places; the binding shows the slightest lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows only the mildest rubbing and very faint soiling to the panels; price unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, remains a structurally sound, tightly bound copy : clean, sturdy and quite presentable and with a clean text in a like DJ. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 213pp. Hardback with DJ. Novel set in the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975, c1974. First American Edition. First? Printing. fair, good. 21 cm, 213, tape marks on cover, pencil erasure on verso, minor soiling to front endpaper, rear endpaper missing. Disruption in the life of a family when the Germans occupy the Channel Island of Guernsey during World War II.