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HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE

by John Frayn Turner

Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1961

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. The Exploits of Major "Bill" Hartley, M.B.E., G.M. of Bomb Disposal. How he dodged death dozens of times, how he stepped on a beach mine - and lived, how he felt for a fuse in a bomb up to his elbow in nitro-glycerine... Blue cloth boards, dark blue title to spine. B/w photos.

1.25" strip of fading to bottom edge of blue boards. Endpapers and text block browned with some foxing. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and heavily browned.

Stock no. 1822807

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