Editore: Penguin Classics, 2015
ISBN 10: 0143107445 ISBN 13: 9780143107446
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Condizione: New.
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Editore: Penguin Classics, 2016
ISBN 10: 0143110233 ISBN 13: 9780143110231
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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Editore: W. H. Allen, 1967
Da: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Regno Unito
Condizione: Good. 1967. No edition remarks. 420 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Laminated jacket over black cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Light water droplets to pages throughout. Boards are assumed in good condition as are covered with laminated jacket. Heavy scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Editore: London:Hutchinson
Da: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Regno Unito
Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition first edition book. An ex-library copy with labels for the Epworth Mechanics Institute library, including on the front cover. No dust jacket. A tidy tape repair to the centre of two title pages. Supplemental information has been attached to the rear board and endpaper. The main body of text is clean and sound with good unfaded print. Fine for a library book.
Editore: W H Allen 1967, 1967
Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova Zelanda
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Editore: E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 1965
Da: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 367 pages. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly foxed and tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Condizione: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear, small losses to corners/spine ends. Book has clean and bright contents with no inscriptions, 352pp.
Editore: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, New York, 1962
Da: Sagebrush Press, Morongo Valley, CA, U.S.A.
green cloth. Condizione: Good. 1st Amer. Edition. clean ex-lib in library binding, several stampings but NO paste-ins.
Editore: Hutchinson of London, 1961
Da: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hard cover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st. First edition. Jacket is worn at edges and hinges, and bears light foxing on inside edges. Cover has some white marks on cover edge and spine. Very fine foxing on book edge. Missing front end paper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked.
Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Not Stated (illustratore). First edition. One of Jean Lartéguy's most successful works; a first UK edition of this novel on the Algerian War. The first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. The English translation of this very successful novel, drawn from the author's experiences as a war correspondent. Set in Algiers at the end of colonial rule, this work explores the Algerian War and the role of the French paratroops. General Peter Pace mentioned this work as one of the inspirations for his surge strategy in Iraq. The author Jean Lartéguy (1920-2011), pseudonym of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, was a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. His novel was translated by Xan Fielding. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely condition. Gilt lettering remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Small marks to pages 45 to 47. Dust wrapper remains bright, with a little shelf wear and chipping to the extremities and folds. Two losses to the front flyleaf, which is torn. Very Good Indeed. book.
Editore: E.P. DUTTON & CO, NY, 1965
Da: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
HARD BACK RED. Condizione: GOOD. JACKET: WORN DJ. FIRST ED ENG. General wear: small bookplate, foxing, , previous owner marking on title page, partially rubbed off at bottom and intact POM at top of title page DATE PUBLISHED: 1965 EDITION: FIRST ED ENG 367.
Editore: Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1966
Da: Book Bazaar, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Black cloth hardcover, with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows signs of light wear at edges, with a handful of small tears. Binding solid. Pages stained from age, foxing, but interiors remain clean and bright. Slight creasing at spine. 480 pp. First British Edition, translated from the original 1963 French text. Quite scarce, especially this particular edition. [JZ].
Editore: E.P. DUTTON & CO., NEW YORK, 1962
Da: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
HARD BACK BLUE. Condizione: GOOD. JACKET: TATTERED DJ. FIRST ED. Top edge of dust jacket is chipped with 1" x 2" pissing from the top of the back coverpiece of dustjacket. Slightly faded spine. Bookstore sticker on front endpaper and writing on front endcover. No markings inside. DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: FIRST ED 487.
Editore: E.P. DOTTON & CO, NY, 1966
Da: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
HARD BACK BRICK. Condizione: GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. FIRST ED. General wear, shadowing, small bookplate, foxing of EPS and fore edges--text is clear but small DATE PUBLISHED: 1966 EDITION: FIRST ED 481.
Editore: Hutchinson, 1961
Da: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First UK edition-first impression. VGC plus.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine)in VGC, no Dj cover.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small foxing marks and nick on the outer edges,two small foxing marks and a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC plus for its age with light shelf wear.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but without the Dj cover.
Editore: Hutchinson 1961, 1961
Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova Zelanda
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
First edition, Lovely Copy, octavo, red heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 487 pp, VG+ (moderate foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (some creasing to spine extrems, some staining to inside of french flaps).
Editore: Arrow Books, 1966
Da: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Arrow edition. GC plus.Arrow book,1966.First Arrow edition, 1966.Originally published in English under title: The Centurions,1961.First published in France under the tile: Les Centurions, 1960. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Small size paperback(small tear on the edge of the back cover,some creases,nicks and ink marks on the cover and spine,small pen mark on the edge of the front cover) in good condition plus.Clean pages but tainted on the outer edges,small creases,nicks and tainted on the edges of the pages,small foxing marks inside the edges of the front and back cover.The book is in good condition for its age with some shelf wear.448pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce book.
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. None (illustratore). First edition. First US edition of this important French novel by Jean Larteguy, an excellent copy. First US edition of this work, preceded by the first English language edition published by Hutchinson in London in 1962. Translated by Xan Fielding.A famous French novel by Jean Larteguy [Jean Pierre Lucien Osty] following the airborne battalion during the First Indochina War, Algerian War, and Suez Crisis. Winner of the 1960 Prix Eve Delacroix.The Centurionswas adapted into a film starring Anthony Quinn titled 'Lost Command.'Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine. book.
Editore: Hutchinson, 1961
Da: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First UK edition-first impression. VGC.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the edges of the cover and spine) with protected Dj(number written on the edges of the front Dj cover, numbers written on the back Dj cover, very small tear ,small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages with a couple of ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC except for the written numbers on the Dj cover.Price clipped.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but with the Dj cover.
Editore: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London, 1961
Da: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. This is a jacketed copy of the first English-language edition, both the jacket and volume in very good condition. The red and black cloth binding remains clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners, vivid spine gilt, and no appreciable wear apart from minor wrinkling to the spine ends. A forward lean is the only defect noted. The contents remain bright with no previous ownership marks. A trivial hint of soiling and spotting appears to the text block edges. The illustrated yellow and gray-green dust jacket is respectably bright, substantially complete, and unclipped, with the original lower front flap price intact. We note minor loss to the spine head and corners, the largest instance being a 1.25 inch deep by .375 inch wide loss to the lower front flap adjacent to the flap fold which does not intrude into either the front cover illustration or the flap print. Otherwise light wear and soiling is mostly confined to edges, hinges, and flap folds. Shelf presentation is good, the minor loss and wear to the spine ends neither intruding into any print nor appreciably diminishing appearance. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, archival quality clear cover. French journalist, war correspondent, and former soldier Jean Pierre Lucien Osty published this acclaimed novel under the nom de plume Jean Larteguy. The Centurions narrative is set against the backdrop of the military quagmires and moral complexities of France's post-WWII colonial conflicts. The story follows a group of French paratroop officers captured by the Vietminh after the fall of Dien-Bien-Phu in Indo-China through their subsequent release, re-enlistment, and service in Algeria using the methods they learned from the Vietminh. The book was written and published in French in 1960, then translated by Xan Fielding for publication in this first English-language edition in 1961. The Centurions won the prestigious Prix Eve Delacroix for 1960 and in 1966 was adapted into a movie (Lost Command) starring Anthony Quinn. The Centurions is credited with the first presentation of the "ticking time bomb" moral quandary scenario. First English language edition, first printing.
Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. None (illustratore). First edition. The first UK edition of Jean Larteguy's popular novel about a French airborne battalion, in the exceptionally bright original dust wrapper. The first UK edition, first impression. Initially published in France in 1960, this is the first English language edition of the work, translated by Xan Fielding.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Larteguy's novel follows a battalion through the First Indochina War, Algerian War, and Suez Crisis.The novel won the 1960 Prix Ève Delacroix, and includes the first use of the so-called "ticking time bomb" scenario.With the inscription 'To Dad, Happy Christmas, From Gloria', dated 1961, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with a touch of sunning to back strip. Light chipping to back strip tail, with minor chips to back strip head. Small closed tear to tail of fold of front flyleaf. Small closed tear to tail of front wrap, repaired with clear tape to reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.
Editore: E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1962
Da: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in a darker blue. Near Fine or better, with slight wear to the spine ends, faint stains to the textblock edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial wear. One would be hard-pressed to find a nicer copy.
Editore: London, Hutchinson, 1961, 1961
Da: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, Sudafrica
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Near fine, clean, bright and tight. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. with slight edgewear to spine extremities. The extremely rare first English translation. A wonderful copy. Africana. Hardback. With dj.