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London: The Folio Society, 2014. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2014 (first thus). Octavo, xxvi, 204 pages with a map plus 13 pages of plates, 5 pages of facsimile documents and a large colour folding map (of West and Central Crete) in an end-pocket, and colour pictorial endpapers. Colour pictorial cloth; a fine copy lacking the slipcase. Introduction by Clare Mulley. Crete in World War Two. Not least, exploits with Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Hide and Seek The Story of a Wartime Agent by Fielding, Xan - 2014
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London: The Folio Society. 2014. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good Slipcase. Slipcase has light abrasion to one panel. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and a black & white map of Crete. Includes fold-out colour map in pocket at rear. This map is War Office map of west and Central Crete created in 1943 and reproduced in 1944, annotated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Introduction by Clare Mulley. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxiii, 204pp. Firsts published in 1954, Xan Fielding's own account of his exploits as an SOE agent during World War II. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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London: The Folio Society, 2014. 8vo. pp.xxiii +204 with 13p. plates, 5p. of facsimile documents & a large colour folding map in rear pocket, colour pictorial endpapers.Original decorated cloth hardcover in slipcase. Fine Copy. Major Alexander Wallace Fielding was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as a Special Operations Executive agent in Crete, France and the Far East during World War II. After the fall of Crete in May 1941 he landed in Crete with a supply of weapons and explosives Fielding teamed up with Patrick Leigh Fermor, and built an intelligence gathering network which provided detailed information on the movement of Axis troops, shipping, and air transport.
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Secker & Warburg, London, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo, First Edition. Book Condition: Good. Moderate foxing edges. Inscription endpaper. Boards and interior very clean. Dusr Jacket: Fair. Only top quarter of jacket spine remains. Bottom front flap torn. Not Clipped..
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Secker & Warburg, London, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 255pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and fifteen captioned black and white photographs. A tiny area of miscellaneous marking to the upper board, and a shade or two of fading to the backstrip cloth. Some uneven toning to the free endpapers, and a small inked (!) price to the tip of the front free endpaper. A very good copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. One of the more important and elusive of the S.O.E. titles: an account of the author's cat-and-mouse games avoiding the Germans in the Cretan mountains and later in Southern France, oft times accompanied by Patrick Leigh Fermor (who appears in two of the photographs). Uncommon..
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