picnic basket de spears major general sir edward (24 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. 224 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, light discoloring and wear; a good sound binding. The jacket is yellowed; clipped flap; wrapped and glued inside the covers. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 201333.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. v/g hardback*SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR*in v/g un-clipped d/j.1967,edition.224,pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Very good hardcover, some markings on first few pages. Very good hardcover, some wear on edges.

Etat : Good. Signed, 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and a few small tears.

hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. hardback, octavo, special edition published for the Institute of Directors with subscribers List to the front, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket which is protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, signed to the front free endpaper by the author, 224pp. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (generals, great britain, biography, 19th century ) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Good+ edition. ExLibrary book but minimum stamps/labels.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Hard Cover is bumped to spine ends. DJ has edge wear and has some cello tape to some edges. This is a special edition specially produced for members of the Institute of Directors and has been subscribed by those whose names appear in pages just before the title page. The author has signed on the fep. Seller Ref: M21810. Signed by Author(s).

Hb in Dw 8vo, xvi,224pp mono frontis plate ,mono plates to text A Vg/Vg copy SIGNED to fep by the Author A Vg/Vg copy.

Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Thus. THE PICNIC BASKET Major-General Sir Edward Spears. Secker & Warburg 1967 Subscription Edition SIGNED by Author. 224pp. This copy is in FINE, bright and tight condition in a FINE unclipped dustwrapper. This copy is a special subscription edition done for members of the Insitute of Directors and includes the names of all the subscribers. It has been signed 'E G Srears on the f.e.p. with no other dedication. Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC (7 August 1886 - 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars. Almost any book about Winston S. Churchill mentions Spears, one would think that this was his real name. In fact his original name was Spiers which he changed by Deed Poll. When he had just turned sixteen he joined the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in Kildare and later became a second lieutenant. After passing his examinations for the regular Army he was posted to the 8th, the Royal Irish Hussars. He was commanded to work at the War Office on an Anglo-French Code book but that did not last long as the French were not keen to provide information. In May 1914 he was posted to Paris to work with the French and make contacts with British intelligence agents in Belgium. When the War commenced the English soldiers in France hardly spoke any French, and the French any English. Spiers came into his own and from then on he became the Liaison between them. He was wounded in action twice. When Winston Churchill arrived at the Front he noticed Spiers, took a liking to him and asked him to become his brigade major. From then on the two became great friends and Spiers continued his Liaison duties at the highest level, becoming a confidant of Churchill and acting as interpreter at many high powered meetings. He rose in rank, finally becoming a Major-General. In 1940 he was sent by Churchill to bring General de Gaulle to England, flying with him in some secrecy, thus enabling de Gaulle to set up the Free French movement. He was knighted and became a Baron, but as his only son had died before him the Baronetcy lapsed when Spiers died in 1974. Ref W3. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Subscriber's edition, signed by the author on the front endpaper. Some tanning and foxing to pages. The dustjacket has some discolouration and some wear around the edges. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. The Picnic Basket by Major-General Sir Edward Spears. 1967. Hardback. No jacket. This edition has been specially produced for members of the Institute of Directors and has been subscribed by those whose names appear in the following pages. Book in very good condition, has the book plate of Tony M Chance to first front end-paper and has author's signature to facing front end-paper. Cloth a little faded to spine at bottom and scratch to back of jacket. Clean throughout. Bookseller Inventory #HFB0044795. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. In overall very good condition this book is signed by the author. Some foxing and light edge wear to non price clipped DJ. Foxing to block edge. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Collectible; Good. Signed edition.Good overall condition. Has wear and tear to dust cover.Internally clean throuout, though a little musty. speedy dispatch from the u/k 0.0. Signed by Author.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Reprint, 8vo, pp224, frontispiece portrait. A bright copy in VG Condition, in VG illustrated dust wrapper. (Shelf 200 / Box L) (300g).

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. A few small rubbings to boards, painted top edge slightly faded, flat signed to ffep, clean and tight. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Reprinted 1967. 224 pages. Very good red cloth covers in a very good if slightly worn and chipped pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Frontis of the author. This copy a special edition for the Institute of Directors with the list of members at the front of the book. 0.0.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; maroon buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Subscribers' edition produced for the Institute of Directors with list of subscribers bound in at front.

Couverture rigide. Etat : bon. RO60002087: 1967. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 224 pages, hardcover. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Pp. [xviii](inserted list of subscribers)+224, frontispiece portrait; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine blocked in purple and lettered in gilt, slight bruise to bottom edge of upper board, the top fore-corners a trifle rubbed; top edges purple; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves foxed; Secker & Warburg, London, 1967. First edition, subscriber's copy. *Autobiography, signed by the author on the upper free endpaper. 'This edition of "The Picnic Basket" has been specially produced for members of the Institute of Directors and has been subscribed by those whose names appear in the following pages' (page [i]). Sir Edward Spears (1886-1974) was a British Army officer and politician who served as a liaison officer between the British and French in both World Wars. In the First World War he was the first British officer to be sent to the front, in August 1914.

August 1967. Secker & Warburg. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - Poor/Fair, rear leave torn with large piece missing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. (8) 9-224pp. First edition. Very good book in very good minus dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Cocoa colored paper on boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Front board panel has a 1 1/8" round stain, else boards are clean. Horizontal crease along lower edge at tail of board spine. Front paste-down and FFEP have glue residue where a 1968 article had bee attached, article is enclosed. FFEP also with pencilled writing. Gutter at frontispiece and title page is cracked. Scuffing in side margins on pp. 66-67 else internally clean. External edges and text pages are age-toned. Dust jacket has shelf-wear soil and scuffs overall, small stain on lower right corner of front panel. Loss at head of jacket spine of 1 1/4" by up to 3/4". Lower edge of front jacket panel has loss of 1 1/8" by up to 3/8" and with several adjacent diagonal creases to the lower edge. Corners at tail of jacket spine have small amount of loss from rubs; back corner has an adjacent 1 3/4" closed diagonal tear with old tape repair on the reverse. Upper edge of front jacket panel has a 1 1/4" closed vertical tear to the left of center, also with old tape repair on reverse. Upper fore-edge corners are rubbed and both have adjacent 1/2" closed tears. Upper and lower edges of front and back jacket panels are sunned, softened and with horizontal creases and small chips. Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. Inscribed by Author.

Etat : Poor. Reprint. Institute of Directors members edition. Signed. Wear/tears, tanning/scratches to jacket & laminate lifting on top edge. Textblock edges tanned/foxed. Small stains to edge of p.81, 150/151 & 172/173, some marks on other pages. Text good.