The Valley of the Shadow. by DE WET, H. Oloff - 1949

William Blackwood & Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 298 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Contains brown and black illustrated plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, Edinburgh and London, 1949 G (no dj, dark cloth with some tarnish marks. lean to spine. 1 inscription to ffep. early pages foxed , and to edges of textblocl. pages age-tanned.

Tandem, London, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour illustrated paperback binding with red, white and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. The author was working as a secret agent in Prague prior to World War II. Two years later he was incarcerated in Plotzensee prison, and, till the end of the war was incarcerated under daily threat of execution. This is his story. Creasing of the top book corners with noticeable rubbing of the book panels and less noticeable rubbing of the edges. Removal of a sticker can be seen to the top right hand corner of the front panel, and, to the top right hand corner of the rear panel. White coloured sticker has been placed to the lower edge of the back strip. Tanning and staining of the text block edges with tanning of the pages. Previous owners' rubber stamp to the top edge of the verso of the front panel and lower edge of the title page (well-known Holocaust scholars). First Paperback… Read More

GB: Panther, 1956. 1st Thus. Paperback. VG-. Illus. by Cy Webb (aka Heade) (cover).

William Blackwood & Sons, 1949. Hardback. Good/Acceptible. First edition hardback with unclipped jacket. In overall good condition - dj has 2 inch loss to spine tail and edges chipped/worn. Black boards a little marked. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions, text and moving illustrations clean and clear throughout.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd 1949. First edition, small octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1949. Book. VG++, Wear, Abrasion, Foxing. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Author's account of his experiences as a secret agent of France in Prague, and his imprisonment by the Gestapo. Illustrations by the Author. Expanded condition report/scan on request..

Edinburgh and London.: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. The Valley of the Shadow. By H. Oloff de Wet. Hard covers with dust jacket and both are in good condition. 1st Edition 1949.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1949. 1st edition. Nice Copy. small octavo. dust jacket 298pp., frontis., b/w pls., Author served for nine months as a Pilot & intelligence officer in the Army of the Negus, offered his services to Franco, was refused and flew as a Republican Pilot in Spain for three months. He then started to work for the French Deuxieme Bureau. This is the story of his capture and imprisonment at the hands of the Gestapo. Nice copy