529pp total. Hardcover bindings, black lettering on slips on front boards. Condition: Good. Some rubbing, small stains, and spots of superficial wear to the covers and spines. Spots of foxing and spots of slight and superficial insect wear to the edges of the textblocks. Some browning to endpapers, small closed tear and crease to fore edge of front endpaper of vol 2. Small corrections in pen to a few of the pages. Text otherwise clean. Both volumes are well bound.
The first two parts of Frances Daphne’s until recently unpublished war diary, since edited by Laura Taylor and published as “A Woman at War: The Forgotten South African Second World War Diary”. The two volumes offered are both inscribed by a family member of the author’s family to Peter Daphne, who was a pilot during the war and son of the author.
Size: 4to (25,2 x 20cm)
Privately Printed, Undated
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 4to
