Description
Signed limited edition of Poems From The Desert, Versus by Members of the Eighth Army, by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein.
Octavo, 45pp. Beige cloth over original blue morocco spine, title in gilt on spine. Bound by Leighton Straker in London. Light soiling to cloth covers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Housed in scarce publishers cardboard slipcase, limitation number on bottom panel in ink. Limited edition of 110 signed copies by General Sir Bernard Montgomery, this being number 53.
Comments: The first 10 copies of this signed limited edition were bound in full leather for the authors personal use. Number 10-110 were bound in cloth, as with this example here. Frontispiece portrait is signed by artist Stephen Gooden.
