Moss (W.S): Ill met by Moonlight. FIRST EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO , Harrap, [1950]

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 21 plates on 14 and 2 full-page maps in the text; handsomely bound in navy blue full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Classic account of the kidnapping of General Karl Kreipe on the island of Crete; yet another episode in the war service of Patrick (Paddy) Leigh Fermor. Initial requests for publication had been denied as recently as 1945, and the book was chosen to lead the BBC's famous radio series 'Now it can be told' of 1950. Enser, p.120. (Book ref. 19588)  £280.00

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