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Author:	O'Dowd Gallagher
Title:	Retreat In The East
Publisher:	George G. Harrap & Company
Country:	UK
Date:	1942
Format:	Hardcover
Class Number:	940.6
Genre:	Non-Fiction, History, Biography
Total Editions:	2
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ppint. 30th Jan 2024		first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1942 this first printing in h/cvr by george harrap & co. ltd., london in 1942 is ttbomk the first edition. it would have been distributed by them within the british empire - quite possibly excluding canada - probably including the west indies, but certainly to gibraltar, malta, egypt, anglo-egyptian sudan, kenya, uganda, tanganyika, northern & southern rhodesia, nyasaland, south africa, aden, india, australia & new zealand by sea, and - at least in theory - also to british guyana, british honduras, st. helena, montserrat, the falkland islands, and south georgia; and further, to territories outwith north america (possibly including canada) and the british empire in competition with any copies of the licenced doubleday doran h/cvr edition to which that estimable merkin publishing company bothered to export such wares, insofar as these might be, or were unoccupied by forces of, the axis powers...



ppint. 29th Jan 2024		lancashire county library copy book no. 938296, not rebound. in the granada tv reference library c.1974 last borrowing date-stamped 23/jan/1996 originally lent ''subject to early recall'' which meant that the loan was for one week, rather than the usual two weeks, and could not be renewed (though the book could be reserved, and borrowed again, once those ahead in the reservation queue had borrowed and returned it). later provided on monthly loan, perhaps to branch libraries, mobile (travelling) libraries, etc. stamped withdrawn from lancashire libraries, but this not dated. d-j missing.



ppint. 28th Jan 2024		george g. harrap & co. ltd. h/cvr first printing, 1942, first edition 182 high holborn, london w.c.1 composed in aldine bembo type and printed by morrison & gibb, ltd. london & edinburgh dedication: to mr churchill in admiration and in wonder that he ever sleeps book production war economy standard (with lion couchant at top of line-printed frame) this book is produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards 192pp. including titles, indicia etc., plus b+w photographic plates, bound with endpapers between green cloth-covered boards



ppint. 30th Jan 2024		first published year date is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to 1942 first published by george harrap & co. ltd., london 1942, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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O'Dowd Gallagher - Retreat In The East - Viking [World Distributors] - Paperback - UK (1956)