POEMS FROM THE DESERT: VERSES BY MEMBERS OF THE EIGHTH ARMY by Montgomery, General Bernard (foreword) - 1944

London: George Harrap & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1944. Third Printing. Hardcover. Name and stamp to front endpaper and stamp/number to rear pastedown; tight and otherwise unmarked in blue cloth with touch of wear along spine. "8" in gilt to front board. 27 poems; 44 pages .

London, Eng: George G. Harrap, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Second reprint, June 1944; bound in blue leatherette with gold "8" on front cover and gold lettering on spine; edge wear to boards particularly along the spine and at the corners; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition..

Harrap, Sydney, 1944. First Australian. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Couple of small age spots on end papers. Light age and reading wear. 50 pages. No internal inscriptions. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Military & Warfare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56313. .

1944. MONTGOMERY, General Sir Bernard, foreword. Poems from the Desert: Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. Original navy blue morocco-backed cloth, morocco and gilt onlay, T.e.g. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1944]. First edition. One of 110 numbered copies signed by General Montgomery. Engraved frontispiece signed and dated by the artist Stephen Gooden. Twenty-seven poems, all but one chosen from entries to a competition in the Christmas 1942 number of the Crusader, the Eighth Army's weekly paper. Only poems actually written in the Western Desert were to be submitted. The final poem, written on a scrap of paper, was found by a soldier sheltering in a trench during the battle of El Agheila. Very slight soiling to cloth, snall bookplate, small typed note about the artist tipped onto the front free endpaper, else very good or better.

London: George G. Harrap and Company.� 1944. First edition. First edition. Signed limited edition. Publisher's quarter black morocco over yellow buckram boards, circular Eighth Army formation badge in black and gilt to the upper board, titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece illustration signed and dated in pencil by the artist, complete with tissue guard. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards were slightly dust marked. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Signed by General B. L. Montgomery in black ink to the limitation page. This special edition was limited to 110 copies of which 100 were for sale. This example is numbered 76. A collection of 27 Poems written by serving soldiers and considered to be the best entries received in a poetry competition organised by Eighth Army's Education Officer. The poems appear in the order of which they were placed in the competition. Further details and images… Read More