brigadier general e l spears (13 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Owner presentation on the endpaper. ; Folded maps in back.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First US Edition. Folding maps and illustrations throughout. U.S. title page, otherwise identical to British edition. Clean redound volume in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 2nd impression . Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board from the previous owner. 2nd, New Impression October, 1930. Complete with Fourteen maps and two sketches by Lt-Col, Sir Morgan Crofton. Preface by Winston S. Churchill. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 597 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally there is foxing and a few minor marks. All pages are accessible. The text is legible. The binding has been repaired. Now protected with a plastic covering. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. New Impression. A good plus copy in reddish-brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. No ownership inscription. Some edge and end-paper foxing. Rear hinges tender. Pp.xxix,597. 33 illustrations. 14 maps. Preface by Winston Churchill. A study of the opening phase of the First World War up to mid-September 1914 and including the First Battle of the Marne.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, xxx,597pp, illustrations and 14 folding maps, some with tape-reinforced folds, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, otherwise clean and sound, red cloth, slightly marked, spine slightly faded, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Heinemann, London, 1930. New impression of the first edition. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE 1ST EDITION! 640 pages, with numerous illustrations and 9 maps, some being fold-out, a very good hardback, publisher's original maroon cloth binding with gold gilt lettering to the spine. Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill prior to him becoming Prime Minister. From a university library but hard to tell.

Hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy buckram covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Thick 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 597 printed pages of text with 14 folding maps and monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Spine ends and gutters very lightly rubbed, a little age darkening to the spine, private plate to the front paste down and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.

Hardback. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Lt.-Col Sir Morgan Crofton (illustrateur). Please note that this is a heavy item and may incur extra shipping costs for international orders. ; Red cloth boards are slightly faded and marked, corners bumped; spine has been removed and laid in, paper covering should be handled carefully as joints to both front and rear boards are exposed; binding otherwise tight; pages are age-toned, occasionally spotted, fourteen maps including five holding at rear, E.L. Spears' ink signature and dedication on front endpaper. E.L. Spears was a liaison officer between the British and French forces throughout both World Wars; his bilingual skills greatly helped communications between the two sides. ; 6.5 x 2.5 x 9.5 inches; 597 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd impresssion. Signed by the author, with a nice (military association) inscription and dated 1945. Some cover wear. The pages are tanned. The dustjacket is discoloured and grubby and has some wear, loss and tearing around the edges. Signed by Author(s).

Reprint. xxix, 597pp. All maps including folding maps present. A typed letter to Canon Lummis, thanking him for support on headed paper, signed by Spears stuck down to front pastedown. 1974 memorial report from The Telegraph attached to rear endpaper. Original red cloth very sl. spattered to spine, inner hinge visible but sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Occasional foxing. VG.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This is an inscribed author's presentation copy of General Spears's memoir of his role as liaison officer in 1917 during the First World War's failed Franco-British Nivelle Offensive. The book was a successor to Spears's Liaison, 1914 (1930). Of note, the author's inscription is dated exactly two months after Britain and France declared war on Germany, beginning the Second World War.As prominently noted in red print on the dust jacket spine and front face, Winston Churchill contributed an introduction (pages 11-13). This first edition, first printing was inscribed to Maurice Hankey. Within months of this book's publication and inscription, both men were playing important wartime roles under Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. The inscription, inked in five lines on the front free endpaper recto, reads "To | Maurice Hankey | from | Louis Spears | Nov. 3rd. 1939". Condition approaches near fine in a good plus dust jacket. The red cloth binding is square, tight, clean, and unfaded with sharp corners and bright spine gilt. We note only trivial shelf wear to extremities and a tiny scuff to the upper edge of the front cover. The contents are clean and bright, the red-stained top edge retaining uniform hue, only the fore edges showing light soiling. Differential toning of the endpapers corresponding to the dust jacket flaps confirms that this copy has spent life jacketed. The dust jacket is unclipped, the original front flap price intact, and has only minor loss to the spine ends and upper front corner. The jacket is soiled, modestly spine-toned, and shows some short, closed tears and attendant wrinkling to the edges. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.In his generous introduction, Churchill observes of Spears that "From his position as a Liaison Officer he had the opportunity of knowing much that passed behind the lines as well as at the front." Churchill praises Prelude to Victory as "a military and human study of the highest value and interest." This was not polite hyperbole. Upon finishing the book, Churchill wrote to Spears on 20 July 1939, "I think it a great work, and one of the finest I have read in the literature of the War."His First World War role as liaison officer between British and French high commands gave Major General Sir Edward Louis Spears (1886-1974) not only two highly regarded books, but saw him awarded the Military Cross, made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Commander of the French Legion of Honor, and promoted to brigadier general. Spears served in Parliament from 1922-24 and 1931-45. In the early May 1940 crisis that saw Churchill replace Chamberlain as prime minister, Spears voted against Chamberlain. In 1940, not long after publishing and inscribing this book, now-Prime Minister Churchill sent Spears to France to report "at first hand." (Gilbert, VI, p.388-9) Spears not only traveled to besieged France with and for Churchill, but also rescued Charles De Gaulle; it was onboard Spears's plane that De Gaulle took Gallic flight, bravely abandoning his country, army, wife, and children. Spears later served as envoy to Syria and Lebanon and was knighted in 1942. Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (1877-1963) passed out from the Royal Naval College in 1897, but by 1902 left the fleet for Whitehall, where he spent the great majority of his career. Notably, Hankey served as the first Secretary to the Cabinet (1919-1938) and Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence (1912-1938). He was knighted in 1916 and created Baron in 1939. Hankey "remained a Chamberlain loyalist to the bitter end". Nonetheless, when Churchill became Prime Minister Hankey was able "to carry on his committee work and the 'special duties' which had been entrusted to him." Hankey was relegated to the post of paymaster-general by July 1941. Broad, persistent, open criticism of Churchill led to Hankey's dismissal in March 1942. (ODNB & Gilbert)Reference: Cohen B67, Woods B33.

Cloth. Etat : Good Plus. Etat de la jaquette : Good Minus. First Edition. Protective plastic covering to dust jacket, d-j edgeworn and chipped in places along head with several tears to corners, rubbed along reading edge and spine, rear cover also rubbed, price clipped, scuff mark to front cover, feint scuff mark to rear cover, light shelf wear to head/foot of spine, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, previous owner's inscription to fep, uncut edges to foot of text block, light spotting to fep, pp clean and clear, rear maps in very good condition, bind solid, pp secure. Size: 8vo.