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Abyssinian Stop Press

by Farago, L. (Ed.)

Publisher : Robert Hale & Company
Published In : London
Illustrations : 31 b/w plates, 1 folding map

Description:

First edition. Scarce account of the second Italian-Abyssian War (October 1935 to February 1937). Based on the accounts of British war corespondants observing both sides of the invasion. Includes accounts from Major-General J.F.C. Fuller; Patrick Balfour; Edmund Demaitre & Ladislas Farago.

Condition

8vo. orig. black cloth, lightly rubbed. Book label partly removed from front endpaper. Some light foxing throughout. Good. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.