Devil Heels by Thompson (8 results)

Condition: Fair. 1947. First Published. 320 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Very slight crushing to spine ends.

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Maps across front endpapers. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 320 pages : map (on lining-paper) ; 21 cm. Subjects: Europe Description and travel; Europe. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine, binding and cover all fine; nice blue boards with gilt title; contents clean and no inscription. Dustcover good, faded somewhat, worn on edges and more at top and bottom of spine. 320 pages.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 320 pages : map (on lining-paper) ; 21 cm. Subjects: Europe Description and travel; Europe. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, endpapers and page edges foxed, name in pencil on the title page, in an unclipped, worn dustjacket which is creased with closed tears at the edges, and small areas of loss at the spine ends. 320 pages, map on front endpapers.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good small octavo 320pp., ep maps, Mainly Germany, Slovakia, Macedonia & Yugoslavia. many references to WW2. Well written.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Colour map endpapers. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the corners. The contents with one page a the rear slightly roughly opened, a very minor crease to the last few pages and a tiny scorch mark to the blank margin of pp.86-90 are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. Complete with the very good dustwrapper which has some toning to the spine and a few small nicks to the extremities. Not price-clipped (12/6 net to the front flap). Signed and inscribed by R. W. Thompson in blue ink on the title page "R.W. Thompson / For Frank Owen / with all good wishes / Nov. 47". An account of a journey through Europe from Tromso in North Norway to the Black Sea in the aftermath of the Second World War by the journalist Reginald William Thompson (1904-1977), who had previously served with the the Intelligence Corps as well as working as a war correspondent. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.