They Have Their Exits. With a Foreword by Lord Justice Birkett. IN FULL MOROCCO
by NEAVE Lt.-Col. Airey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton,, 1953. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 3 full-page diagrams, and endpaper maps in blue; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'barbed-wire' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Neave recounts his evasions and escapes following capture at Dunkirk. He was the first British prisoner to make a Home Run from Oflag IVc, Colditz. Enser, p.151.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45917
- Title
- They Have Their Exits. With a Foreword by Lord Justice Birkett. IN FULL MOROCCO
- Author
- NEAVE Lt.-Col. Airey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton,
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- mstock, military, ww2, wwii, pow, colditz, oflag ivc, neave, airey neave
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Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...