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SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, red cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket with sepia sketch of a battlefield, 350 pages. The Crooked Rain is a novel of the war in East and North Africa [including Palestine and the battle of El Alamein] as seen through the eyes of an average intelligent young man who has left his natural environment to serve as an infantry officer.It may rank as one of the best novels so far written about the last war.""--dust jacket. RARE SIGNED & in this condition. The distinguished author was a Q.C. in South Africa. After serving in the ranks of the First South African Division in the Abyssinian and North African campaigns, he was commissioned in 1942. His first novel, Let The Day Perish (1952), an evocative novel about the ""Colour bar,"" was then often reprinted. SIGNED and in remarkable condition (VG+/NF) in a NF pictorial dust jacket. This SIGNED copy has a solid text block and generally bright text with only the slightest age-toning. The cloth has some fading and a few spots, and there are a few very light and small smudges scattered on a few pages,
