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STREET A G , Hitler's Whistle FIRST EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUST WRAPPER

STREET (A.G).: Hitler's Whistle. FIRST EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUST-WRAPPER , Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates of photographs by Eric Guy, small neat contemporary initials on front free endpaper, fore-edges mottled; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, covers lightly age-marked and faded at edges else a good, bright, clean copy in unclipped d/w, the latter lightly age-soiled and rubbed at edges. Arguably the scarcest of his wartime collections, this important Street title is based on his week-by-week farming diary of the first three years of WWII. Prior to the outbreak of war Street had been primarily a writer and broadcaster; this account of his return to the land gives much fascinating detail on the farming practices of the period. The 'whistle' of the title refers to an air-raid siren. This scarce work is rarely found in really good condition due to stringent wartime production standards. Any d/w is a real bonus. Enser, p.74. (Book ref. 19575)  £85.00

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