Author: YOUNG Desmond
Title: Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Collins,, 1950. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7 and 2 full-page maps in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, front panel and backstrip of dustwrapper mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With striking dustwrapper portrait by C.H. Birtwhistle. The first dedicated biography, it was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. Enser, p. 374.

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