Diary of a War Artist
ARDIZZONE, Edward
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: The Bodley Head, [1974]
Stock code: 46476
Price: £84.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, pale blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.
Ardizzone's diary begins with Sicily in 1943 and carries through to the mopping-up in Germany in 1945. The striking wrap-around dustwrapper illustration reproduces 'Naval Control Post on the beaches of Normandy, 1944'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.