dodo lees (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The autobiography of Dodo Lees - war heroine, politician, linguist and traveller. It records her wartime activities with the French Resistance for which she was awarded the Croix de Guerre and Bar, her time as a Labour politician as well her travels with her husband in South America.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

[Worcester, Self Publishing Association Ltd., 1993]. 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. 374, illustrated after photographs in the text; near-fine and very rare.Privately printed first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author's husband Chipps (to whom this book is dedicated in print) on front fly-leaf. Dodo Lees's life is shimmering with many aspects, one of which is her activity during the Second World War assisting the Fench resistance in the Vosges and nursing victims at the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. She was a staunch Labour supporter and even stood against her beloved huspand Chipps, who was Conservative candidate in Dorset.