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    By Somerset de Chair
    London   The Golden Cockerel Press
    10.5" by 8" 5-126 [1]pp
    Somerset de Chair's limited edition account of his experiences in World War Two, in a quarter morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
    By Somerset de Chair

    1943 The Silver Crescent

    London   The Golden Cockerel Press
    10.5" by 8" 5-126 [1]pp
    Somerset de Chair's limited edition account of his experiences in World War Two, in a quarter morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
    £185.00
    : 1kgs / : 947F16
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed Binding

    A limited edition work, limited to five hundred copies, of which this is number 79.

    Somerset de Chair's reminiscences on World War Two, in particular his experiences as a desert campaigner and on the Levant-Caspian front.

    A remarkable first-hand account of the hardships of the Second World War. 

    Illustrated with a frontispiece, and with numerous full page and vignette monochrome illustrations throughout.

    In quarter morocco signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with their stamp to the head of the front free endpaper verso.

    Condition

    In a signed quarter morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Externally, excellent, but with a touch of fading to back strip, as is common with blue morocco. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

    Very Good Indeed

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