members eighth army (20 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Second Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light wear to cloth on top board. Previous owner name.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. . . . . First Edition 12mo, hardcover. Vg+ condition in vg dj. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 51 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condizione: Good+/Good. Not Illustrated (illustratore). First Edition. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. Good+/Good. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 8vo., 51pp., dust jacket shelf wear, soiling, crease on front fold-over, price clipped on front fold-over, light fading at edges, otherwise good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise quite good; light foxing on edges of text block, pencil note on rear pastedown, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 46 pages. An anthology of poetry written by member sof the British eighth army. A clean and sound book with evidence of previous ownership at the head of the front free end paper. The remains of the dust wrapper are now held together with a clear protector. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 6"x9".

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good (age toning along the spine) dust jacket. ; 51 pages.

Grey Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Grey Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 51 pages; a foreword by Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery; from the dj: "These 27 poems by officers and soldiers of the British Eighth Army were all written under fire in the midst of one of the greatest campaigns of this war--while Rommell was retreating across the Western Desert. They express completely the thoughts of these men--thoughts of battle,.of love and of home." and from the foreword by Gen. Montgomery: "Perhaps, it is not too fanciful to see in the poems that follow something of the greatness of mind and spirit with which this valiant Army has been fired, and to which so many of its finest achievements can be attributed." Book condition: a bookplate is on the front fly leaf; there is foxing in the area of both endpaper hinges, darker in the rear; the blue dj spine is a bit faded, otherwise, book and dj are very nice indeed, for a wartime book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARRAP 1944 1ST EDITION. EX LIBRARY.GOOD OVERALL CONDITION . NO D/J. BOARDS HAVE SOME MARKS .SENT NEXT WORKING DAY FROM THE U/K 1ST CLASS 0.0.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition, stated. Twenty seven poems considered to be the best entries in a poetry competition organized by Eighth Army's Education Officer in 1942. The 27th poem was written on a scrap of paper and fluttered into the hands of a soldier sheltering in a slit trench during the battle of El Agheila. The poem -" A Soldier - His Prayer" - was written anonymously. 51 pages. 4 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in. No dust jacket. Slight soiling to spine area. Book plate of previous owner affixed to front paste down. Book is in Near Fine condition. ; 4 2/4 in. x 7 3/4 in.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Wrapper is chipped and rubbed, with some closed tears to back bottom edge. The spine is darkened with a small open tear. There is some foxing to the flaps. Corners are rounded, but boards are clean. Foxing to fore edge. Signature on the foreward, but otherwise clean throughout. Very good. 0. Signed by Author(s). Book.

HB BLUE CLOTH FINE PP46 DW MISSING PIECE FROM TOP OF FRONT PANEL CHIPPED AT EDGES GOOD 8V0 Foreword by General Montgomer.

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. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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. Condizione: Near fine. Signed limited edition of Poems From The Desert, Versus by Members of the Eighth Army, by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. (illustratore). 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.