Carve Her Name Pride, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are edge worn with scuffing, knocking, marks and tape securing the boards to the spine. The page block is secure. Small ink marks on the series page. Stamp on the front paste down and ink annotation on the front end page. no other ink inscriptions or annotations. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. pp. xii, 187. 8vo. Bound in light green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Red publisher's topstain. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, sunning to extremities; very good- in good, discoloured dustjacket with small chips and tears to edges.

First edition. 1st edition, 1956. map end papers; B&W illustrations. Free end papers yellowed; text clean; binding tight; spine & board edges faded; gilt lettering on spine a little worn & dull. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn with tears, repaired on verso with brown paper-tape. DJ protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket Used - Very Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page map and full-page plan in the text, and endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, red top, inoffensive tape scars on paste-downs else a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The classic, well-illustrated account of SOE agent Violette Szabo, the only woman agent to be awarded the George Cross during WWII. This book forms the basis of Lewis Gilbert's classic feature film (1958) starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.399; Foot, p.460.

George Newnes. London. 1956. First edition. Hardback in DW. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HARRY PEULEVÉ, a colleague and friend of Szabo, "For Harry Peulevé with kind regards & many thanks for your great help. R J. Minney." Loosely inserted is a typed signed letter on George Newnes headed paper from Minney to Peulevé, c/o Special Forces Club in London. The letter mentions how heavily Minney relied on information that Peulevé gave him for certain sections of the book, "particularly during that night when you talked together in the stable at Metz." he also states."I hope you like the book. I should very much like to see you again to have a talk and hear your news. Perhaps if you are free, you would care to lunch with me one day at my club, the Savage Club." Boards mottled, pages lightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is internally strengthened with tape and the tape marks are visible along the joints. A unique copy. Harry Peulevé and Violette Szabó were two courageous British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents in World War II France, forming a close bond and working in the same resistance networks. Peulevé is mentioned many times in this book and some of Szabo's friends thought they had a romantic interest in each other.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None Stated (illustrator). First edition. An advance presentation copy of the first edition of R. J. Minney"s celebrated biography of SOE agent Violette Szabo, signed and inscribed by the author and retaining the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original pale green cloth binding. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with twelve double sided monochrome photographic plates and a monochrome portrait frontispiece. Collated, complete.First edition. An advanced copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the title page: "For Lewis and Hilda, with my warmest regards, R. J. Minney. Advance copy - 10th Sept, 1956."A biographical account of Violette Szabo, the Anglo-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent who served in occupied France during the Second World War and was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her bravery. The work became widely known following the 1958 film adaptation, starring Virginia McKenna.The work recounts Szabo"s recruitment into the SOE, her missions in France assisting the French Resistance following the Allied invasion of Normandy, and her eventual capture by German forces. She was later executed at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Slight fading to spine and extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, sound. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in one or two small chips, closed tears, and creases to extremities. Soiling to wraps with the odd light spot of damp staining. Slight rubbing to wraps. Ink scribble to front wrap, with ink doodle to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if characteristically age toned. One or two light spots and handling marks, heavier to first and last few leaves. Author's inscription to title page. Very Good. signed by author. book.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page map and full-page plan in the text, and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The classic, well-illustrated account of SOE agent Violette Szabo, the only woman agent to be awarded the George Cross during WWII. This book forms the basis of Lewis Gilbert's classic feature film (1958) starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner. Enser, p.399; Foot, p.460.