Desert Rats by Verney, First Edition (11 results)

Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Hutchinson, 1954, first printing. 8vo., 312pp., illus frontis, b/w plates, endpaper maps. Black cloth with red titles and cover design, top edge tinted red. Bottom corner of rear board cut off, wear on lower edges, mild toning to the paper. Very good otherwise in fair dust jacket with heavy loss at the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy; North Africa, Italy, northern Europe.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 312 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Prominent forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Loss to jacket edges and corners. Brown paper patches to interior.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 312 pages. With a foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. A small chipped piece is missing from the spine panel. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. Boards are rubbed. Rat vignette to ffront board is clean and bright.Maps to eps. 312 pages of text, including index with 21 plates and 18 maps. (RA-NT-TW-Wa).

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy octavo 312pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, Tape-marks to end papers o/w a nice copy.

1st edition orig. cloth Near Fine octavo 312pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 312p. maps, Photos. Black cloth. Near Fine Copy. Book.

1st Edition. 312 pages. Near fine hardback covers in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine with endpaper maps and black and white ills.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 312pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, Nice copy in a slightly chipped ust jacket.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps in red; original black cloth, divisional emblem blocked in red on upper board, backstrip lettered in red, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. Reasonably detailed history of the service (Middle East, Western Desert, Europe) of one of the most renowned allied armoured formations of WWII. Includes OOB, commanders and senior staff, and a fascinating account of the creation of the famous divisional emblem. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.35 ; Smith, p.273.