The Labyrinth by Roberts, Cecil - 1944

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944. 1st. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Doubleday, Doran. G+/NONE. 1944. Hardcover. No edition/printing given. Blue covers clean on front/rear but darkened on spine. Gold lettering. Text is clean/tight with normal page browning. Top Edge Green. Spine ends a bit worn from shelf movement. ; Small 8vo; 278 pages .

Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Hard Cover Hardcover. GOOD/NOT ISSUED. • Binding: Hard Cover • Revision: Unknown • 1944 • Blue hardcover shows some edgewear, scuffs, previous owner’s name on a bookplate on inside cover, •

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944 Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY. 1944. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; wear to head, tail, tips, and board tops and bottoms; soiling to board peripheries. DJ: Fair; missing pieces at head and tail; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; toning to panels and spine. Blue grained boards and spine with tarnished gilt lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top; banded head and tail. Internally clean; sound hinges. 278 pp 8vo. This is a WWII novel set in Crete during the German air invasion. A young English nurse in the British Army leads the fight from an ancient labyrinth in the mountains and builds and organization that defies the German occupation. Military action abounds in this story of quenchless heroism that unites fiction and history. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944. Hardcover. Fine. The story is set in Tunisia and Crete before and during the German invasion. Pervious owners inscription neatly on FFEP. Slight discoloration to top edge of DJ. Under protective wraps.

New York: Doubleday Doran., 1944 Book. Very Good. Cloth. First US Edition.. Story of love and betrayals in Crete during WW II. '"The scene of this story opens in Tunis and moves to Crete before and during the German invasion. Sylvia Day had visited her brother Richard, an archaeologist in Crete, in peacetime, where a lyrical love affair with a debonair Italian was ended by the outbreak of war. Fate returns her to the island, this time as a young nurse in the Army that has returned from Greece and is now making a heroic stand against the German air invasion. Linked with her in this drama are her brother, now an aviator, her former Italian lover, a young Nazi prisoner, and a naval lieutenant. When defeat comes, Sylvia Day, assisted by Janet Farr, a hoyden of rugged independence, leads the heroic band of survivors, who cannot be evacuated, up into the mountains. Using her former villa as headquarters and an ancient labyrinth as a fortress, she builds up an organization that infuriates the… Read More

Garden City, NY.: Sun Dial Press, 1945 Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. this story opens in Tunis and moves to Crete before and during the German invasion. Sylvia Day had visited her brother Richard, an archaeologist in Crete, in peacetime, where a lyrical love affair with a debonair Italian was ended by the outbreak of war. Fate returns her to the island, this time as a young nurse in the Army that has returned from Greece and is now making a heroic stand against the German air invasion. Linked with her in this drama are her brother, now an aviator, her former Italian lover, a young Nazi prisoner, and a naval lieutenant. When defeat comes, Sylvia Day, assisted by Janet Farr, a hoyden of rugged independence, leads the heroic band of survivors, who cannot be evacuated, up into the mountains. Using her former villa as headquarters and an ancient labyrinth as a fortress, she builds up an organization that infuriates the invader and baffles his utmost vigilence. This drama, personal as well as… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc, 1944. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Shelf and handling wear to dj. DJ rubbed on edges and corners with small chips and tears. Previous owner's stamp on inside of front endboard and on first endpage, Interior pages otherwise clean and unmarked.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine slightly sunned, rear board small stains. Corners bumped. Jacket clipped but price remains. Jacket chipped with edgewar at the folds. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .