DE CHAIR, Somerset.

The Golden Carpet.

Name: The Golden Carpet.
Brand: DE CHAIR, Somerset.
SKU: 123560
Price: 1250.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published by permission of the war office.

Stock Code 123560

London Golden Cockerel Press, 1943

£1,250

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Special presentation copy bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

The march from the Mediterranean to the Tigris to capture Baghdad during WWII. This copy is numbered 5 and therefore is one of the special copies ( nos 1-30) bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full green morocco gilt. Numbers 31-500 are bound in quarter morocco. It is also signed by the author and reads For Oliver from Somerset on the limitation page.

Limited edition numbered 5 of 30 specially bound copies from an edition of 500. Small 4to (26 x 20 cm), frontispiece portrait, presentation signature from the author in ink on limitation page, binder's stamp on front pastedown, pages uncut, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers; bound in full green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt edged, spine gilt lettered with raised bands, spine faded, housed n cream cloth slipcase, slightly marked and soiled; overall a very good copy. 127pp.

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