Published by Sussex: Book Guild, 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine blue boards with gold lettering to spine, near fine black and white dust jacket, not price clipped, no inscriptions 437 pages, black and white illustrations,
Published by Book Guild, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Light staining to top of cover. Scratches to dustjacket & creases/some tears at edges. Marks/some scratches to textblock edges. Some foxing/marks to endpapers. Content very good.
Published by Book Guild, Sussex, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Seller: Greystone Books, Margate, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. NrF/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front paste-down without dedication. Illustrated with photographs. Major Thomas' autobiography of his many years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals: his postings included France, Western Desert, Syria, East Africa, Cyprus, Germany, Singapore. He was chosen to help organise Churchill's funeral. A near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Non-authorial gift presentation on front endpaper. TOGETHER WITH A SEPARATE ADVANCE INFORMATION SHEET ABOUT THE BOOK, which bears the address label of W J and E L Thomas, of Whitstable, Kent, Tommy Thomas retired to Canterbury, Kent. Signed by Author.
Published by The Book Guild, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Very minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£15.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 437pp, illustrated. The extraordinary story of Major Tommy Thomas's career in the Royal Corps of Signals during the war, and his forty years of travel and adventure in the British Army.
Published by Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. First Edition. 437pp Plates. Service with Royal Signals India, WW2 in France, W. Dessert. Ink name label on fr.fly. Size: Cr.8vo. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Book Guild, Lewes,, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publishers blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed by the author on the front pastedown. ISBN: 0863329950 Pages: 437 Very good in very good dust jacket. Signedes.
Published by The Book Guild, 1995
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Seller: Invicta Books P.B.F.A., Builth Wells, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. signed inscription from the author on the front end paper illustrated 437 pages.
Published by Bantam Press / Transworld Publishers, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0863329950 ISBN 13: 9780863329951
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITHOUT DEDICATION ON TITLE PAGE. Some very minor edge wear to top of spine, top corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£15.00), Xmas dedication on half title page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 401pp. Andrew Eames is an adventurous, insightful and sympathetic observer who sets out to travel from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of the old Orient Express. Interwoven through his own experience, with the colourful cast of characters he encounters en route, is an identical journey made by Agatha Christie in 1928, a journey which was to change her life completely and led to her spending 30 seasons on archaeological digs in the deserts of Syria and Iraq. As Eames¿ own journey progresses he begins to reveal details of that exotic second existence of the world¿s most widely read author. The modern journey from London to Baghdad by train is actually far harder to do today than it was in Agatha¿s day. Many of the countries Eames passes through, from the Balkans and into the Middle East, have had a particularly bad press in recent years, and yet the people the author meets are invariably delightful. Eventually he arrives at the Iraqi border at the same time as the UN weapons inspectors, and thus was one of the last tourists to experience the reality of Saddam Hussein¿s regime. As the book approaches its final destination of Ur, one of the first cities mentioned in Genesis and the place where Agatha first met her future husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, it becomes increasingly filled with a sense of doom and oppression as the shadow of war looms. A compelling read which merges literary biography with an intensely personal travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary events. A revelation both about Agatha Christie¿s life and about the true character of nations which have been demonized by the world press in recent years. Signed by Author(s).