Scourge Desert by Operator 1384 (4 results)

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Covers and contents crisp and clean with no inscriptions. Not dated but appears to be 1950s. Size: 5" x 7.5". Hard Co.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. No dustjacket. No date but looks 1940s/509s. Preliminary page removed? Marked red hardback binding- spine colour-faded to lighterr red., Wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Page-edges and prelims lightly browned & foxed, ink name to flyleaf o/w pages clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 18.5 x 12 cm. 255pp. Bound into red cloth. Spine lettering is a but faded and rubbed. A man of many names, Operator 1384 was a pseudonym of David Harvey John Jones who also wrote under the names of John Henry Harvey, Ex-legionnaire 1384 and John Barrington. Harvey (or whatever he real name was) was an Englishman who joined and then deserted the French Foreign Legion in Syria in 1926. He wrote several books about his time serving with some being more fictionalized than others. For more information on Harvey see the articles "Escape from the Legion" part 1 and 2 on the site Bear Alley. …

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 262 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine black with tan lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price cut. Soiling, scuffing, and chipping to covers. Fraying to cloth on head and tail of spine. Toning to interior pages. Inscribed by James H.R. Cromwell on title page. Inscription reads, "Merry Christmas and hoping you have a lovely sleigh ride with Santa Claus on the sands of Palm Beach / December, 3rd 1936 / (Xmas to you)." Shelved in Case 8 1/2. James H.R. Cromwell (1896-1990) was an American diplomat and United States Ambassador to Canada under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1396809. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…