Minor bumping to cloth; jacket with some chipping to spine ends and fore-corners.
Jacket artwork by Bateson Mason.
£275
London, John Lehmann, 1950.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Set during the Dunkirk evacuation, the novel follows Sergeant Julien Maillat and a small group of French soldiers stranded on the beach, unable to be evacuated with the British forces. It won the 1949 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize.
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