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Buy this book on-line GREAT WAR : Arras Avant et Apres le Bombardment [Arras Before and After the Bombardment]Fernand Benoit [no date].
First edition. Landscape 8vo. A series of thirty-five captioned tissue-protected photographs depicting Arras before and after the Great War (which saw roughly three-quarters of it destroyed). Stiff card leaves bound in paper wrappers, rubbed and chafed at extremities. A brief history of the city, in French and English, is printed to the front and rear endpapers ("Whole parts of the City have been whipped out: devastation is to be seen everywhere. Arras is not to be recognised. The town, however, has kept is [sic] outlines of past times. She shall rise again, out of the ruins, more beautiful than ever, for she was the inviolated Capital of the province of Artois, and must not desappear [sic]"). Uncommon.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of GREAT WAR : Arras Avant et Apres le Bombardment [Arras Before and After the Bombardment]. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, libri antichi, antiquarian books, first editions and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |