Cardboard Crucifix.
Wet, Olaf de.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons Limited., London., 1938
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iii, 343pp. Republican pilot out of Madrid, Albacete and Manises, post Spain, recruited a spy by the 2nd Burea of France, arrested by the Nazis, released under a prisoner exchange programme.Regarded as one of the best accounts of a republican flier. Clean and tight, neat previous owner label to fep, very slight curvature. 750g. Seller Inventory # 010712
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Title: Cardboard Crucifix.
Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons Limited., London.
Publication Date: 1938
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
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Cardboard Crucifix
Published by
William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1938
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: John Hopkinson - Bookseller, Cremona, AB, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition previous owner's small inside signature starting to fade Orange cover. Seller Inventory # 5958
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Cardboard Crucifix: The Story of a Pilot in Spain.
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., ., 1938
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Hardcover
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
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Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), [x], 343 pp. Poor, with heavy damage to spine, bookplate; binding still tight, interior clean and sound, good quality paper. Aviation, Spanish Civil War, Spain, Military History, European History. islic. Seller Inventory # 61704bd
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Cardboard crucifix: the story of a pilot in Spain
Published by
William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1938
Used
First Edition
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
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1st ed. Foxing on pages & fore-edge; binding tight; spine faded & a little stained. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket). Seller Inventory # BOOKS169720I
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Cardboard Crucifix; The Story of a Pilot in Spain
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Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, royal blue title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 343 pp. Spine sun faded, corners bumped, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir). Seller Inventory # 111419
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Cardboard crucifix: the story of a pilot in Spain : Oloff de WET
Published by
William Blackwood, 1938
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Hardcover
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. No dust jacket, spine faded, boards marked and worn, some foxing. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday. Seller Inventory # O1-CO7G-F4GZ
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Cardboard Crucifix. The Story of a Pilot in Spain.
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EDINBURGH and LONDON: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1938., 1938
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Hardcover
Seller: Paul Orssich HISPANIC STUDIES, LONDON, United Kingdom
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8vo. Tela editorial naranja; título en azul en lomo y plano superior; cortes superiores tintados. Restos de las sobrecubiertas originales montadas en las guardas.Una hoja blanca; portadilla; portada; Contents, 1 h; 343 pp.PRIMERA EMISION, poco común. Experiencias de un piloto republicano en las bases de Madrid, Albacete y Manises. En principio Oloff de Wet ofreció sus servicios a los nacionalistas; rechazado, se unió a la República y en esta época fue reclutado como espía por el Deuxième Bureau de Francia. Arrestado por los Nazis fue condenado a muerte, pena a la que escapó por canje de prisioneros. Seller Inventory # 1207030
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Cardboard Crucifix: The Story of a Pilot in Spain
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1938
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
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Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). First edition (first printing). Hardback. Physically 8" x 5¼" (0.9 kg); 343pp; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #176452|| Condition: Good. Heavily faded at the spine, less so to the boards which are a little dull. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Pages lightly age-tanned. Seller Inventory # 176452
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Cardboard Crucifix
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Blackwood, London, 1938
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Hardcover
First Edition
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Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London, Blackwood, 1938. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. An account of the Spanish civil war. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper to an 'Edward Le Guerre', additionally signed without inscription by Elizabeth De Wet on the half title. A Spine faded and rubbed, a little dusty to the top edge. No jacket. [10889, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 10889
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Cardboard crucifix: the story of a pilot in Spain. . . .
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William Blackwood & Sons, Ltd.,, Edinburgh & London:, 1938
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
8vo. [4], 343, [1] pp. Orange cloth, purple lettering front cover & spine (minor dustsoiling, minor darkening to head & foot of spine, slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art of monoplane soaring into the sky above smoking ruins at the lower fore-edge (minor creasing, slight chipping to corners, minor chipping head & foot of spine, w/ old minor tape repairs to verso), still VG/G copy. First edition, second printing, of Oloff de Wet's memoir as a British volunteer pilot during the Spanish Civil War, and considered one of the most descriptive and best accounts by a republican flier during the War. Oloff de Wet (1912-1975) was an RAF trained pilot who grounded out from an accident, worked as journalist and pilot in the Second Italo-Ethipian War (Second Italo-Abyssiann War), and after fighting in the Spanish Civil War, would later become a spy in Prague before World War II. He and his wife were captured and tortured by the Gestapo, and his experiences would later be published as The Valley of the Shadow, Death Row. After his release in April, 1945 from a Nazi prison, he returned to London where as a portrait sculpture, he executed busts of Ezra Pound, Edmund Blunden, John Cowper Powys, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and others. Scarce in original dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 56826
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Cardboard Crucifix; The Story of a Pilot in Spain
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Published by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh Second Impression . London 1938., 1938
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Hardcover
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, royal blue title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 343 printed pages of text. Spine ends a little soft, foxing to the closed page edges, ink message dated 1939 to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in scarce Very Good condition art work dust wrapper with tiny chips to the spine tips and corners, crease lines to the edges, 8/6 to the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir). Seller Inventory # 76301
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