Paiforce (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1948. No edition remarks. 137 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and maps. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Three cards sent from Holly to Cfn. W.R. Holcombe, 542 W/Shop Coy REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers). Conditions good, a little dusted. (1) Paiforce Xmas postcard 13x10cm with oasis scene to the front and warmly affectionate ms message to the back, undated. (2) and (3) MEF 1945 Xmas cards 15x10cm reproduced and printed by 512 Field Survey Coy, RE. One has emblems bordering the Xmas message to the front (Palestine, BTE, PAIC, Cyreaica, Tripolitania, Sudan, Dodecanese, Aden, N. Levant), the other a map of the Middle East and North Africa with these emblems located on the map. The ms message inside each is exactly the same ("just a little Xmas Souvenir as it is the last which we will spend apart my Darling"), perhaps sending twice to increase the chances of it reaching its destination.

Hardback. 137pp, 32 plates, London 1948. Very good.