E duplesis (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition Presumed. No stated date but believed to be late 1930s or early 1940s. Presumed first edition. xii, 212pp. This is the story of a young South African who, after serving with distinction in the 1914-18 war, disgraced himself over a worthless woman. Then came a period of "roughing it" in America, after which he worked his passage to France and joined the famous Foreign Legion. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the corners and heavier bumping with some fading and a little damage to the cloth at spine ends. There is some damp spotting and fading on the fore edge of the front board and a water stain around the bottom corner of the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with a faint stain near the bottom corner of the rear fixed endpaper and a name and date has been written on the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and a large red stain is visible on the reverse of the wrapper around the bottom rear corner. Small pieces are missing from the corner tips, about 1/4" from the bottom of the spine, a larger piece from the bottom rear spine corner, up to about 1/2" from the top of the spine and up to about 1/4" from parts of the top front and rear edges. The top front edge has noticeable creasing and there are several small tears on the top edge. The bottom spine edges have tears of up to about 1 1/2" and these tears together with some other smaller tears on the edges have been repaired on the reverse with document repair tape.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Spotting along page fore-edges. Dust jacket is in a protective cover. British price 12/6 on jacket flap. Dust jacket has small tears. Inscription on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. As told to and written down by E. C. Trelawney-Ansell. No date stated, a good copy in a chipped and edge worn dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. A French Foreign Legion story of E Duplesis, written down by Trelawney-Ansell. 1st edition, undated.

Hardback. Zustand: VG+. VG- DW. 1st Edition. Burgundy cloth. Not dated but about 1939. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. DW priced 12/6 net.…

(1st edition) orig. cloth Near Fine octavo 512pp., b/w pls., fldg. maps, honour roll, index, "A story of a young South African who, after serving with distinction in the 1914-18 war, disgraced himself over a worthless woman." Presumed first edition. No dust jacket but a nice tight, square copy of an uncommon Foreign Legion title.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. No date, c: 1935. A very gd copy in a non price-clipped DJ which has tape reinforcements to top and bottom of spine and light esdge wear. An usually good copy.

nd. "A story of a young South African who, after serving with distinction in the 1914-18 war, disgraced himself over a worthless woman." Pp. 12/212. Red cloth, d/w (designed by E. Jeffrey) edges chipped. VG/G.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. As told to and written down by E.C. trelawney-Ansell. No date circa 1930's. presumed 1st. red bds with black title to spine. top edge of boards sunned. spine ends bumped with 7mm tear to top spine end. corners lightly rubbed. pages evenly browning. interior nice and clean. light foxing to outer edge of text block. unclipped d.j. with creasing and small tears to edges, tearing and small losses to corners, repaired tear to bottom spine end and tearing and small losses to top spine end.…