The Longest Day. June 6, 1944
RYAN, Cornelius
[Maps by Richard Edes Harrison. Second Impression.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Gollancz, 1960
Stock code: 50983
Price: £160.00
8vo., Second Impression, with 28 plates on 16 and coloured endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back,case with slight forward lean else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the wrapper lightly browned and chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip.
'Second Impression before Publication'. Includes a good bibliography. The dustwrapper is unusual in that the publisher's blurb occupies the whole of the inner surface. Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.292.