members eighth army (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. "8-4 Second Edition K-T;" 51 p., clean and unmarked anywhere, with opened pages. 51 p., clean and unmarked anywhere except for faint stray mark on front end page near lower margin;; binding firm; in absence of d.j.the beige boards have faint stains, lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Edition. "Poems, written by fighting men in the heat of desert battle, that vividly record their emotions and their essential spirit." Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery to this stated Second Edition, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover exemplar of moving poetry from members of the Eighth Army in the British military force in the Second World War. Clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed dust jacket, lightly worn, a bit sunned, slight chip missing to spine head. 51 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Edition. "Poems, written by fighting men in the heat of desert battle, that vividly record their emotions and their essential spirit." Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery to this stated Second Edition, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover exemplar of moving poetry from members of the Eighth Army in the British military force in the Second World War. Clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed dust jacket, moderately worn, a bit sunned, chip missing to spine head. A fetching gift inscription at first free endpaper, "To 'Bennie', from Mom and Pop, 1945." 51 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. 46 pp. Light bruising to spine ends. Dust jacket lightly soiled and edge worn. A collection of twenty-seven poems (one anonymous) of battle, of love, of home, written during the fighting in Libya and submitted for competition to their won newspaper Crusader, by the officers and men of the gallant Eighth Army during the great campaign that drove Rommel back across Africa.

46pp. orig. blue cloth,

Reprint: Navy bds., gold titles, 145 x 220 mm., 175 grms., 46 pp., owner's signature on pdfep., no dw., VG copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American edition. Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Small light stain on top edge, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a touch of toning on the spine. 27 "poems by officers and soldiers of the British Eighth Army, all written under fire in the midst of one of the greatest campaigns of this war- while Rommel was retreating across the Western Desert." (from the dust jacket).

Leather bound. Zustand: Near fine. Signed limited edition of Poems From The Desert, Versus by Members of the Eighth Army, by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. (illustrator). First Edition / Limited Edition. Octavo, 45pp, [3]. Beige cloth over original blue morocco spine, title in gilt on spine. Bound by Leighton Straker in London, with binder's imprint at rear. Solid text block, faint foxing to cloth covers. Frontispiece portrait protected with tissue cover. Housed in scarce publisher's cardboard slipcase, limitation number on bottom panel in ink. Limited edition of 110 signed copies by General Sir Bernard Montgomery, this being number 87. The first 10 copies of this signed limited edition were bound in full leather for the author's personal use. Number 10-110 were bound in cloth, as with this example here. Frontispiece portrait is signed by artist Stephen Gooden. Signed.