12mo. Green cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 155pp. Near fine/very good. Small inoffensive stain on rear endpaper; jacket lightly edgeworn, with single edge chip. A tight and attractive first edition wartime travelogue by the British actor, singer, playwright and all-around wit as he traveled to entertain allied troops during World War Two and (to cite front jacket panel) "reports his impressions of the war in the Mediterranean." Very lovely and very uncommon in such a spiffy jacket, whose front panel graphics show a stylized aerial view of the Mediterranean and Sicily, Gibraltar, Malta and Beirut. Seller Inventory # 44193

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Title: Middle East Diary

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City

Publication Date: 1944

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been buying and selling quality books, autographs and ephemera since 1991. We specialize in general antiquarian, first editions, signed books and autographs and documents. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA), Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC) and The Manuscript Society.

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
9304 Saturn Ln, Galena, IL, 61036, U.S.A.

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