F M Ortas (18 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Black hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition with dust jacket. Page edges browning. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 239pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First British Edition. Hardcover, 223 pp. A novel condeming Franco's treatment of his soldiers. Light wear, unmarked, tight binding.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine, Mild Browning. 1st UK Edition. Drama set in post-Civil War Spain, translated from the Spanish. Jacket by Paul Griffin. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

223p., yellow boards titled black in pictorial dj, translated from the Spanish by Christopher Martin. First British edition, good copy. "Virulently" anti-Franco novel, set in the dictator's conscript military. Author Ortas at age 17 "joined Franco's Republican Air Force. From 1939 he spent several years in French concentration camps, was imprisoned for five years in Spain on political grounds, is at present living in London having sought political asylum." He has also published a novel in Mexico based on these experiences (different title in English namely Soldier and a Half). The dedication softens Ortas' "virulence," which dedication is to "the best infantry in the world" [sic; in context none other than his old outfit], likewise in acknowledgements Ortas cites as reprehensible the Spanish Army's "rickety structure, rigid internal hierarchy, lack of money and supplies, and the corruption of a few [sic] officers." Period. To further gild this mildness odd in a political exile, he grinds his teeth most about "the miserable sum which the Spanish Army receives fortnightly under the comic title of 'extras'".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG. Nice, clean, tight copy of the First Edition. Hole from punch in upper corner of inside end paper and half title. Dust Jacket has minor soiling. Location: P15.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Trans.: Christopher Martin (illustrator). Hardcover in very good condition, with good jacket. First English edition. Jacket is lightly marked, worn and nicked. Page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.

HARDCOVER. Neville Spearman Ltd, 1963. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a very good, unclipped d/w with light edge wear and panel scuffing.

Dura. Condition: Buen estado. Dust Jacket Condition: Buen estado.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition. 8vo. 223pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at the spine. The merest hint of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper with several tiny closed tears and a small area of surface abrasion to the base of the spine panel, where a small sticker has been removed. Based on the author's own wartime experiences, a "violently anti-Franco" novel with a printed dedication "To the private soldier of the best infantry in the world". (Ortas joined Franco's Republican Air Force in 1936, subsequently spending some years in a French P.O.W. camp, and was later imprisoned in Spain for five years on political grounds).

Condition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: sovracopertina leggermente logorata e con leggere tracce d'umidita' Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Dura. Condition: Buen estado. Dust Jacket Condition: Buen estado.

Condition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, strappi bruniture Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture.

Condition: Buono stato di conservazione. 13 x 20 cm. Pagg. 323 Legatura editoriale in tela con copertina rigida manca sovraccoperta.

Condition: Very good. 1963, London, Neville Spearman, pp223, yellow cloth in dustwrapper. Fifty centimos was the basic pay of a conscript soldier.

Condition: BUONO USATO. I Libri d'Oro ITALIANO Volume rilegato in tutta tela con titoli in oro al piatto anteriore e al dorso. Coperta lievemente imbrunita, sovraccoperta illustrata al piatto anteriore e con segni dovuti da fattore tempo. Tagli regolari e naturalmente imbruniti, pagine ben salde alla costa e con minima imbrunitura. Libro completamente fruibile, appartenente alla collana "I Libri d'Oro", traduzione diretta dal testo originale spagnolo di Gianni Samaja, numero pagine 323.

London, Neville Spearman, 1963. 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. 223; wrapper just a little rubbed, otherwise very good.First edition of this anti-Franco novel by a former member of Franco's Republican Air Force, who from 1939 spent several years in French concentration camps, to be repatriated by the Germans, then imprisioned by Franco-Spain and finally moving to London.