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Verlag: Barrie & Jenkins in association with The Arcadia Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0214669017ISBN 13: 9780214669019
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Boards in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else internally clean. Nearly fifty illustrations. Index. Dust jacket has a small chip at upper right corner of front panel; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xiii, 421. Field Marshall Montgomery's accounts of his victorious campaigns during World War II. He commanded the Eighth Army from Aug 1942 until Dec 1943 and documents the march from Cairo along the north African shore, through Sicily, and far into Italy towards Rome. He then commanded the 21st Army Group from Jan 1944 until the German surrender in May 1945, and describes the planning and implementation of Operation Overlord, including D Day and the Battle of Normandy.
Verlag: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, M.A., 1948
Anbieter: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. Previous owner's name cut out from half-title page. VG book, clean and sturdy, with nearly VG dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Verlag: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, M.A., 1948
Anbieter: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. Previous owner's name cut out from half-title page. VG book, clean and sturdy, with nearly VG dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Verlag: E. P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1949
Anbieter: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, USA
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Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First US Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 192. Frontis. color map. Illustrated with sixteen additional colored fold-out maps. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, Eighth Army insignia blind stamped on the cover. Lower corners at trifle bumped, spine ends, two fold-out maps partially severed at the folds in an apparent binding and trimming error, leaves crisp and bright. In the two color dust jacket: front flap price torn away, edges rubbed, short, closed tears. Personal account of the great campaigns against Rommel's German forces that made "Monty" and the British Eighth Army famous.An attractive copy with the dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
24x18cm. 255 pages. Hardcover rebound. Front cover rubbed, age stained, faded and yellowing. Rear cover rubbed and slightly yellowing. Cover edges and corners worn. Spine taped. Original spine wrinkled and yellowing. Spine edges worn. Several pages slightly wrinkled. Page 81 edge partly torn. Pages yellowing and age stained. Else in good condition. The book is in : Polish.
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1948
Anbieter: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good - Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good +. First American Edition. Large 8vo. xv (1), 351 (1) pp, maps. First American Edition, 1948. Jacket Subtitle: Twenty First Army Group. Price clipped. Some tiny chips top and bottom spine edge and fore-edge corner tips with a 1" closed tear to bottom edge rear panel and some background soiling to rear pane of same. Dust line to top edge and some slight age-toning to bottom and fore- text block, else no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 5.25" x 9.55". Orangish-red cloth with black lettering to front board and spine, and illustrated endpapers. In acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book.
Verlag: Without place or date s?, 1980
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
4pp., 8vo. In good condition, with light signs of age. A lively and vivid account, as the opening indicates: '"Ah! I see you're a member of my Club!" said the Field Marshal, pointing at my tie: and do you know, despite the fact that I doubt if he had set foot in Carlton House Terrace - or any of our subsequent addresses, - more than half a dozen times, he still managed to give the impression by the way he said "My Club!" that, if not actually a Founder Member, he was at least a popular and highly-respected Savage, and that my standing with him was increased by my own membership of an organisation which included himself. | "Anyway," he said, turning to our mutual host Basil Liddell Hart, "what's he doing here and why have you invited him?" - this, I might point out, in Basil's own house! | Basil then explained to him that I had written books on the First World War and was about to start one on the Second, and that I was interested to know the Field Marshal's opinion on the relative merits of the two groups of generals. | "Right!" he said. "Come over to Bentley tomorrow morning and we'll talk about it. Can't stop now. Well Basil, give my love to Kathleen and stop bullying her! She's much too good for you!" and with a curt "Eleven o'clock, don't be late!" to me, he was off.' Pitt gives the Field Marshal's terse evaluations of various generals, and notes that he 'giggled' when reminded of his DSO. 'He gave me lunch - salad with a bottle of light ale for me and lemonade for him, and then he showed me around the main rooms with his trophies - the solid silver coach and six horses from Birmingham, the huge silver Crusader sword from Syria and the curved golden Saracen sword from the sheiks of the Trucial States. And, of course, the beautiful Field Marshal's baton. | "What security system do you have for all this stuff?" I asked. "It must be worth a fortune!" | "None!" he said. "There's always someone here - and anyway, no-one would ever burgle me!" And, tragically, he really believed it!' A second visit, with his son, on leave from the RAF, is described, leading Pitt to a reminiscence of his first encounter with Montgomery, while on active service in Egypt in 1942: 'I have never forgotten my first sight of Monty - short, compact, the rather bird-like head thrown slightly back, clear grey eyes staring straight into mine, stirring uneasy thoughts of sins of omission and commission of which he couldn't possibly have known. Then he was past, but to our increasing wonderment, he then repeated the performance along the second and rear lines.'.
Verlag: Published by The Arcadia Press, London, First Edition Thus . 1969., 1969
Anbieter: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe Signiert
First edition full black crushed cape levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and third, cannon design to the front cover in gilt with orange and red onlay, all page edges gilt, gilt crown lines and silk headbands, ruled gilt board edges, wide gilt turn-ins, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, England', brown, cream and beige marble end sheets. 4to. 10'' x 7¼''. Hand written number 154 of 265 (numbers 251-265 were not for sale) Limited Edition copies SIGNED by the author 'Montgomery of Alamein' to the limitation leaf. Contains 584 printed pages of text with colour plates, maps and battle plans throughout. Fine condition book in publisher's original clamshell, fleece lined cream cloth covered case with later title labels to the spine, with small handling marks to the case. Heavy volume weighing 2.5 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).
Verlag: Collins, London, 1958
Anbieter: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by Collins, London in 1958. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition . Original maroon cloth with gilt titling to the spine. Light pushing at the spine tips. Bumping to the upper front corner. Pink top-stain lightly faded with mild toning to the text-block. A moderate crease to the upper corner of all pages. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. Mild edge-wear with two small closed tears to the upper front spine fold and corner. Light rubbing in places. A small personal number library sticker to the lower spine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been inscribed (in the year of publication) by the author to the front blank end-paper : ' To Virginia and Ashley, with admiration and affectionate regards, from Montgomery of Alamein, Nov 1958'. The recipients were Sir Ashley Clarke and his wife Virginia Bell. Sir Henry Ashley Clarke GCMG GCVO FSA was a British diplomat who was et al. the UK ambassador to Italy. Later he was chairman of the 'Venice in Peril Fund' (Wiki). Accompanying this book are FOUR Christmas cards addressed to the same recipients dated from 1960-67. All Four cards have been signed by 'Montgomery of Alamein' and each has a B/W photograph of Montgomery. Montgomery is best known for his command of the British Eighth Army from August 1942, through the Second Battle of El Alamein and on to the final Allied victory in Tunisia in May 1943. Following the Allied victory, he served as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe until his retirement in 1958. This detailed autobiography covers his childhood, his wartime campaigns, and the his post-war years. A highly collectible title with such attributes and signed ephemera. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Aldershot
Anbieter: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, USA
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This archive centers on the Centenary of the British Army Physical Training Corps (A.P.T.C.) at Aldershot and one of its most famous sons, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, Corps Commandant from 1946-1960. Spanning 1958 to 1962, the archive includes: two books signed by Montgomery, two holograph, signed letters from Montgomery, a signed note on the verso of an invitation, and an original photograph. The books are a 1960 Centenary publication about the A.P.T.C. and a 1960 Presentation of the Freedom of the Borough of Aldershot to the A.P.T.C. Both bindings feature the same marbled endpapers and the Corps gilt crossed swords device on the front cover. The Centenary is strikingly bound in full red morocco with an elaborate glassine jacket featuring a web motif and housed in a red cloth case lined with matching marbled paper. Profusely illustrated, the Centenary opens with a facsimile holograph Forward by Montgomery opposite his frontispiece portrait. Montgomery offers the volume as "an account of the development of physical training in our Army during the past hundred years." Affixed to the front free endpaper is a special printed plate hand addressed to "Major T. L. Fletcher | Secretary | Army Physical Training Corps Association" and signed "Montgomery of Alamein | F.M." above his printed title "Colonel Commandant Army Physical Training Corps".The Presentation book is bound in red cloth, the front free endpaper boldly signed by "Montgomery of Alamein | F.M." as well as thirteen other individuals, including T.L. Fletcher and Aldershot civic leaders. Condition of both books is exceptional. A 9 August 1958 holograph letter from Montgomery on personal letterhead from Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, conveys regrets for a Reunion event citing "The 13 and 14 September is my last week in NATO " and promising "Next Year, 1959, I will be with you." A red "WAR OFFICE" ink stamp is dated "12 AUG 1958" and ink notation from T. L. Fletcher at the lower right states that the letter is to be "Read out at The Reunion Dinner". A printed and autograph invitation to the 16 September 1961 "Corps Annual Reunion Dinner" is inked in red by Montgomery on the verso: "I regret it is not possible for me to attend. I will be in China in September.", and is signed "M of A | 15-7-61" with subsequent notation dated two days later by "Major Fletcher" at the upper left corner.The final piece of correspondence is an autograph note from Montgomery to the new Training Corps Commandant thanking him for a telegram regarding the Annual Reunion. This note is on "Isington Mill | Alton | Hampshire" (Montgomery s home) stationery, dated "17-9-62" and signed "Montgomery of Alamein". Purple ink stamped at the upper left reads: "ARMY SCHOOL OF | PHYSICAL TRAINING | 18 SEP 1963 | ALDERSHOT". A 13.75 x 8.5 cm photograph of Montgomery in dress uniform ostensibly in Aldershot for the 1960 Training Corps Centenary - is stamped on the verso "NATURAL FOTOS" with an "ALDERSHOT, HANTS" address.In 1854, the heathland of Aldershot became the site of the first permanent training camp for the British Army and has since remained the "Home of the British Army". Major T. L. Fletcher was an Army Physical Training Corps Master-at-Arms from 1939-1954 and served as Honorary Curator of the Army Physical Training Corps Museum. During fifty years in the British Army, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) became "the outstanding British field commander of the twentieth century." (ODNB) He earned fame in North Africa during the Second World War, later commanding Allied ground forces during the Normandy invasion. After the war he rose to Chief of the Imperial General Staff and retired in 1958 as NATO s deputy supreme commander. Lines of Aldershot barracks bear the names of great British military leaders. In April 1965 Montgomery was at Aldershot to formally open the "Montgomery lines" which are still in use.