Desert Rat Sketch Book
PUBLISHER
Sketchbook Press, New York
BINDING
Oatmeal cloth boards with gilt lettering, in yellow card slipcase. Coloured maps on endpapers.
BOOK CONDITION
Some discolouration and spotting to boards, but printed pages remain clear and little marked. Colours bright.
DUST JACKET
Intact, but has general wear and scuffing, with some stain marks and discolouration. A couple of tiny splits to open corners.
EDITION
First edition 1959.
DESCRIPTION
A vivid record of the North African campaign, 1942-43, by an American volunteer ambulance driver with the Eighth Army. Includes 139 drawings and paintings, maps, extracts from diaries and letters, and the artists reminiscences. 187 pp. Large volume 36 x 26.5 in slipcase.
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