Robert Hale Limited, 1958, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First, Illustrated By: Biro -- Front Cover
author's note. Red coloured boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Biro, with orange and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. "When the Italians ended the war in 1942 small radio teams and their trucks were ordered into the Northern Frontier District to hold up the Italian invasion by bluff. This is the desperate story of one of them; navigation by compass, which is upset by magnetic rock; of accident and attack from the air; of engagement with the enemy; of tensions of men driven on by heat and first and the pursuing enemy to amazing feats and terrible sacrifices, for the sake of an abstraction "the Plan" with which they had been entrusted." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and browning to the textblock edges and internal pages. A few stains to the textblock edges. Minor chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels, most prominent to the rear dustwrapper panel and a little creasing to the dustwrapper edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6), 7-224 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Biro -- Front Cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Kenya; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 0114283.
author's note. Red coloured boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Biro, with orange and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. "When the Italians ended the war in 1942 small radio teams and their trucks were ordered into the Northern Frontier District to hold up the Italian invasion by bluff. This is the desperate story of one of them; navigation by compass, which is upset by magnetic rock; of accident and attack from the air; of engagement with the enemy; of tensions of men driven on by heat and first and the pursuing enemy to amazing feats and terrible sacrifices, for the sake of an abstraction "the Plan" with which they had been entrusted." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and browning to the textblock edges and internal pages. A few stains to the textblock edges. Minor chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels, most prominent to the rear dustwrapper panel and a little creasing to the dustwrapper edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6), 7-224 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Biro -- Front Cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Kenya; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 0114283.