The Red Beret : The story of the Parachute Regiment at War 1940-1945 by Saunders, Hilary St. George - 1955

Michael Joseph, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is bright and clear.

Michael Joseph, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Map to front endpapers. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece, with other plates throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Plates are bright. Binding is firm. Heavy marking to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is severely sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Moderate marking and heavy bleach spotting to boards.

Michael Joseph, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. Fourth Impression. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are faintly tanned with mild foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Notable water staining to rear pastedown. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Large water stains to boards. Book has forward lean. Mild warping to boards.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

London: New English Library, 1971. Mass market paperback, second printing thus, 315 pages including 2-page map; spine creased, other light shelf and reading wear, previous owner's embossed stamp over rubber store stamp on first page, otherwise gently used, very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for Anne Laurens' Betrayal at Arnhem, and for Ken Tout's Tanks Advance!: Normandy to the Netherlands, 1944, as well as Major-General John Frost's A Drop Too Many. . Soft Cover. Very Good -.

odhams beacon, 1958 first thus. B-32, very good, spine creases, , paperback,

Eighth Impression; Sm. 8vo; pp. 336; illustrated front endpaper, portrait frontispiece, 11 map illustrations, b/.w illustrations, appendix, index; original maroon cloth with minor flecking, minor bumping to head and tail of spine, a good copy. London, Michael Joseph, (1952).

Michael Joseph, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Reprint. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edge worn. There are closed tears, tape residue and marks along the edges. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*01/31/2023. [AK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Michael Joseph , 1954. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/Poor. Reprint 1954 - tenth impression. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, torn, chipped pieces and edge worn. A small piece of the spine panel missing. There are minor marks within the book and there are small chipped pieces on page 56. The text within the book is clear. There is minor foxing around the block of the book. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.