Turn Road by Bartimeus (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ex-Library, with usual stamps and markings. Corner, edge and cover wear/soiling/staining. Includes maps. Interior is clean. > DJ NONE.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content with light age tone. Owner message to end paper. DJ with some edge wear, scuffs and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Corner unclipped, wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges chipped, ripped, creased and worn, some pieces missing, some light wear to covers and spine, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, edges of covers a little faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, all maps present.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1946 first edition. Erased pencil mark and minor spotting to inside cover. No other marks. Clean pages, tight, even binding. The blue cloth boards are very good, just minor shelf wear. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with just a little shelf wear. An excellent copy. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 123pp, 8 Maps. Bound in original blue cloth with dustwrapper Nvya and Merchant Navy part in the landings in Algeria & French Morocco in Nov. 1942.; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to Good. Vg clean firm interior with fold-out map - no inscription's - tiny mark to closed edge of pages - excellent clean unworn cloth boards - d/j in good bright condition generally but with average edgewear, loss to top of spine - approx 2" split to rear side top edge - paper-rub to top rear edge - not price-clipped./. …

ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc) 122pp maps VG+(sl bruised corners,v sl bumped spine head & foot)d/w VG(v sl wear at extremities,v sl rubbed).

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good small octavo 123pp., fldg. maps & plans, Part played by the RN & Merchant Navy in the N. African landings Nov. 1942.

Hardback. Condition: VG. VG- DW. 1st Edition. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 122 printed pages of text with monochrome diagrams throughout, three fold-out maps, illustrated front piece and rear of the dust wrapper only loosely enclosed . Sun bleaching to the blue of the spine and head of the upper panel, black ink stamp to the front paste down, tape traces to the end papers and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Algeria].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Story of the part played by the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in th landings in Algeria and French Morocco of British and US forces in 1942. 123 pages. Illustrated with 5 diagrams and 3 fold out maps. Pages v/g condition. White endpapers. Previous owner's embossed stamp on top of ffep. BLue cloth, gilt title on spine. SPine and edges lightly faded. Corners bumped. VG. Book.…

Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Some discoloration of cloth at fore edges, ownership inscription dated 1947, a very good copy in the pictorial dust jacket. Several diagrams, three folding maps. A better than usual copy of this book. An account of the Allied landing in North Africa, covering November 8, 1942 through May 9, 1943.…

8vo., First Edition, with 3 large folding maps (one coloured in outline) and several diagrams in the text, front endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Concerned mainly with TORCH; but actually written in 1943 and not revised with hindsight. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.293; Law, 0363. …

Condition: Poor. Aged and shelfworn to the dust jacket extremities. Some creases also. Ex-lib sticker to the inside page. Book feels aged and worn but is still fine to read.

Condition: Near Fine. Pictorial Dustwrapper. First Edition. All books outside UK send airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Story of Navy in Algeria and Morocco in the Second World War on 8th November 1942. Illustrated with Folding Maps (illustrator).

Condition: Poor. 8vo. Blue cloth hard cover in D/W. Minor foxing to title pages and minor foxing to end pages. 122pp. 5 diagrams. 3 fold out maps. In this book Bartimeus presents a first-hand record of one of the most crucial half-years in the war - November 8th, 1942, when the first allied landing was made in North Africa, to May 9th, 1943, when it had become evident that, in spite of intitial misfortunes, the immensely difficult and ambitious project had been successful. The most important of the eleven sections deals with naval matters paying particular attention to the parts played by the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy, supplemented by some extremely interesting statistics. Bartimeus also describes a number of specific naval actions and exploits of individual vessals. His account includes quotations from records and signal logs which, with their staccato humour and supreme understatement, relieve the tension of the story and reveal some remarkable personalities. The naval aspect of the campaign is seen in relation to the military strategy and to the political background, with particular reference to the French, whose attitude is clearly analysed.…

In-8 toile éditeur, sous jaquette, 123 pages avec 5 diagrammes et 3 cartes, dont dépliants. En anglais. Bon état. Expédition : tarifs de La Poste en vigueur.