Author: Somerset de Chair
Title: The Golden Carpet
Description: London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this first-hand account of a World War II campaign in the desert, a signed edition, limited to five hundred copies. The first edition of this work, offering a personal account of a British desert campaign during World War II to relieve Habbaniya and capture Baghdad, and of the subsequent and equally vital campaign in Syria. The campaign saved Iraq from German domination. A remarkable first-hand account of the hardships of the desert war. By Somerset de Chair, published by permission of the War Office. An edition limited to five hundred copies, of which thirty are bound in full leather and the remainder in quarter morocco bindings. The present copy is bound in quarter morocco and numbered one hundred and seventeen. Signed by the author to the limitation page, dated 1943. Illustrated with a frontispiece, with maps to the endpapers. With a publisher's slip loosely inserted announcing the publication of a sequel. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding over cloth covered boards. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor sunning to the spine. The front board very slightly warped. Signed by the author to the limitation page. With a publisher's slip loosely inserted announcing the publication of a sequel, 'The Silver Crescent.' Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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