Lett Gordon (36 results)

Condition: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554. . 2011. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554. . 2011. hardcover. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. No markinga, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, xxxii, 205pp, line maps, B&W photos. From the jacket: In July 1942, Major Gordon Lett was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk. After fourteen months in the notorious prison camps at Bari and Chieti, he escaped at the Armistice of September 1943 from the camp at Veano and took to the mountains above the Cisa Pass. Rather than return to England, he founded and led an entirely non-political band of highly-successful partisans, the Battaglione Internazionale. The group fought and harassed the Brigate Nere and the Germans along the Magra valley from North of Pontremoli to La Spezia for 18 months. They were so influential to the success of the Allied advance that permanent lines of communication with the Allies were established, supplies dropped by air and, later, SAS troops sent in to assist the Brigade. 500 Allied troops escaped to safety via Rossano. (1.8 JM 0528 LVR Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Condition: Good. 1955. First Printed. 223 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, 1955; "First printed 1955" stated, no additional printings indicated; 223pp., several b&w photo plates; map illustration on end pages, at least one other map in text. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; corners gently bumped, else only mild shelfwear to red cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout; top edge has very light dust soil. Quarter-inch crease at head of spine. Light wear, dust smudging to edges of clipped dust jacket, some fraying at head and heel of jacket, scotch tape repair on verso; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 9.20 X 6.30 X 1 inches; 256 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 52 pp. (pp. 25-52). staple binding rusted, some tears along spine. Contents: Folklore in certain professions: The English teacher and folklore / Wilson & ClarkeIn memoriam: Gordon Wilson / Clarke; Witchlore and ghostlore in the Great Smokeies. Part 2 / Hall; Some West Tennessee superstitions about conjurers, witches, ghosts, and the Devil / Lett.

Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 223 pages. Red pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: New. Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, map, 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a true story of a force of 'licensed to kill' secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked, and upon whom his James Bond stories were based.Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M, the Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service, Professor Dudley Newitt was Q and Captain Gus March-Phillips commanded 'Maid of Honor Force', the team of 'James Bonds' who, in a daring operation, sailed a Q ship to West Africa and stole three enemy ships from a neutral Spanish port on the volcanic island of Fernando Po. Ian Fleming worked closely with M to oil the wheels that made the operation possible, and prepared the cover story, in which the British Government lied in order to conceal British responsibility for the raid. M's agents prepared the ground on Fernando Po, even enmeshing the Governor in a honey trap. March-Phillips and his team carried out the raid successfully in January 1942, despite much opposition from the local regular Army and Navy commanders, and in the face of overwhelming odds. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Fleming's lies on the international stage, denying any British complicity in the operation. As a result, a secrecy embargo enveloped Operation POSTMASTER until recently.The author, an experienced criminal QC, proves beyond doubt that this thrilling operation, and the men who carried it out, were the inspiration for Fleming's James Bond. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 223pp. HARDCOVER Sme light foxing to prelims., o/w clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Various marks to external cloth & spine somewhat faded. Binding remains strong. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Paperback. first edition. 617 almost near fine, small name stamp inside top edge of the cover paperback,

Condition: Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback; very good in chipped and creased dustjacket. ; Major Gordon Lett's memoir of life in prison camps and running a renowned international partisan group. Reprint of 1971 edition, with New Introduction & Preface. Illustrated. ; 205 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. revised ed. edition. 256 pages. 9.20x6.30x1.00 inches. In Stock.

pp. 223, b/w plates, prev. owner's isncr., or. bds, v.g. in rubbed, chipped d.j., introduction by Freya Stark.

XXIX, (3), 205, (1) pp. + 8 plates with photographs. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red boards titled in gilt on spine. Tidy and tight, small bump to one bottom corner. Dust jacket is fully intact, slightly rubbed at corners, tiny edge tears, unfaded, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Black and White photographs. Very Good in Very Good (â") Dust Jacket with minor loss. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

8vo. pp 223. Original publishers red cloth, lettered gilt at spine. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Name of book collector, K. R. Clements on label on the front endpaper, otherwise very good indeed in somehwat used, very good minus dust jacket, with internal tape reinforcement.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original comb-bound printed wraps 22x30cm. xvi, 54, (33)pp Tables and Figures, with (2)pp card section dividers. Good with highlighter lines to several pages and a couple of ms annotations. Volume I of 2 only. Volume I contains the complete report. Volume II (not present) contained supporting Appendices on evaluation method (site details, instruments used, selection criteria, plan, costs, researcher qualifications, etc). A very rare internal document, not recorded on Worldcat. The US Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (DCSINT) rolled out six 24-Week Arabic Courses "in a crisis" in October 1990, when hostilities in the Middle East were looking increasingly likely. The aim was to teach as much Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as possible and introduce the Iraqi dialect in 6 months at 5 locations in the US, UK and Germany. The students were Military Intelligence (MI) linguists already qualified in another language. They were to be deployed to assist fellow MI linguists already on the ground, although this did not happen "because of the early termination of hostilities" (p.iii). DCSINT asked the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in the US Department of Defense to assess the effectiveness of its courses, whether they should be repeated, and which of them performed best. The work was done by DLIFLC's Research Division led by John Lett Jr. It collected data from official records and on-site. This report presents background information and procedures followed (Chapters 1 and 2), findings (3), lessons (4), and implications and recommendations for planning to meet linguistic emergencies in the post-Cold War era (5). It found that across all sites, 186 students took part. The courses transferred only limited MSA and thus "not very effective". This was due to insufficient preparation during a crisis, decentralised planning, student motivation issues, methodology weaknesses, and poor consideration of language learning aptitude. The courses at the Defence School of Languages (UK) and Fort Lewis performed best, and with certain improvements could be used in future. Drawing on lessons from Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Somalia and the Balkans, the report calls for a permanent "linguist contingency corps" to ensure better preparation, and a long-term plan for linguistic contingencies supported at the highest levels of the Defense Foreign Language Program and Department of Defense.

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Previous owner name to ffep. DJ with some edge wear, tears and loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NICE As pictured a First Edition a very good condition hardcover in a very good condition dust jacket , price present gently read clean pages.

First Edition. Foreword by Freya Stark. Pp. 224(last blank), 8 plates, text map, lower endpaper map; post 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn, foxed and scuffed, edges with occasional chips and closed tears; endpapers offset and lightly foxed, bookseller's stamp on upper free endpaper; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1955. First edition. *After escaping a POW camp Major Lett supervised the Italian Resistance in the Rossano Valley of Northern Italy. Some SAS material related to Operation Galia.

First Edition. Preface by Brian Lett. Foreword by James Holland. Pp. xxxii+206(last blank), 8 plates, text illustration and map; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Frontline Books, London, 2011. First edition. *After 14 months as a POW in various camps, Major Gordon Lett escaped at the time of the Armistice of September 1943 in Northern Italy. He founded and supervised the Italian Resistance in the Rossano Valley of Northern Italy. Some SAS material related to Operation Galia.

First edition hard back raspberry paper covered boards, gilt stamping and revolver to spine. 189 pp. Author's first novel. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to front end paper : "For Gordon Waterfield, in memory of an important occasion, and with the best wishes of the author", Ecu de France, London, Publication Day 18th July 1952. Touch of faint foxing to end papers. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper with light tan water mark to white spine, 3 mm chip to right hand spine tip, tiny surface grazes to foot of spine, light rubbing to corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Scarce. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.