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Criterion Collection, 2014-01-01. DVD. Like New. 7x5x0. 2 Mint scratch free discs, original artwork, and case are all in great condition. Satisfaction guaranteed!

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Contra Mundum Press, 2017. Paperback. New. 314 pages. 7.91x5.00x0.91 inches.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Hard cover. Very good/Fair. Jacket is tanned, creased, and worn. Chips along jacket edges, not affecting legibility. Tear halfway along back jacket flap hinge, but jacket is intact. Cover is worn along edges. Spine is stained, not affecting legibility. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Top edge of text block is sprayed red; other edges are tanned. Pages are tanned, but text is bright and unmarked.

First Ace Books edition 1959. Paperback (11 x 18 cm), 190 pages. Good condition. The wraps are rubbed, chipped, scuffed/scratched and soiled. Ink mark & writing across top corner (over price). Pages tanning, foxing.

Cresset Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1945. Reprinted. 166 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Light blue cloth boards, silver-stamped spine and small pictorial cover.. Good/No Dust Jacket. Second printing, July 1944. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Fictionalized account of the French Resistance in World War II. This is a true account fictionalized for security, accurate but unrecognizable. From the preface, ""There is no propaganda in this book and there is no fiction."" Cover depicts a soldier with rifle looking at the Eiffel Tower in the distance. 159 pages, clean and unmarked. Wartime publication restrictions. Dampstain along edge fep and areas of the front cover. Top edge red. Owner's name neatly inked ffep. Spine darkened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. An early, wartime edition (1944) of Joseph Kessel's novel which presents various harrowing incidents and anecdotes experienced by those participating in the clandestine French resisitance to Nazi occupiers in France during World War II. Though ficticious in this work, the events are based on real-life events and people. Because the war was still raging and resistance forces were in constant jeopardy, the actual events and descriptions of actors were modified. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. This work was adapted in a 1969 movie directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. --- In blue cloth-covered boards with image of a Nazi soldier about to be stabbed by a shadowy figure in silver to cover; spine titling in silver and red topstain. Volume wrapped in jacket with image of six shadowy figures marching across a moonlit landscape. --- With sunning to edges of cloth and moderate age-toning to leaves, else a… Read More

Cresst Press, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Cresst Press 1944 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

Cresset Press, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. The jacket is edgeworn and marked.Some foxing.Excellent binding.Good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.