Macready General (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stains on the front board with some wear at the edges and the spine. The title label on the spine is present and has a few light stains also. Slight wear on the front hinge. The spine is good. 336 pages. Tanning spots on various pages throughout the book. All sixteen plates called for are present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Bound in black cloth with red backstrip and bright gilt titles to spine, this dated 1965 hardcover First Edition is VG. V111/247pp with Preface, 10 chapters, Conclusion & Epilogue. Experiences in both World Wars in France, Germany and Egypt, plus diplomacy and civil administration, General Mcready had a full life here described. Frontis photo of the writer, and condition all VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. iv, 345-694pp, photos. Vol: 2 ONLY. 1919 to 1922 (retirement) Sunned to spine, hint of foxing, otherwise clean and tight. 1 kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Large hardback copy in black cloth boards with burgundy cloth spine and gold gilt lettering, no dustjacket. 247pp. B/w portrait frontispiece of author. Not library copy, notes in ink from previous owner to rear endpapers. (10/5).

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lieutenant General Sir Gordon Nevil Macready, 2nd Baronet KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, MC (5 April 1891 â" 17 October 1956) was a British Army officer who served as Assistant chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War.Boards are rubbed , with some small indentations,internally very good Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Inventory No: 46275. For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying. Navy Boards With Maroon backstrip.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-lib copy. Vol 1 only. My main speciality is IRISH BOOKS. To see other books on this subject click on: "MORE BOOKS FROM THIS SELLER" and then type in "IRISH" under KEYWORDS, which can be filtered further by "history" [which includes politics], "literary", "topography"& "Art". I have built up my collection over 25 year and I am constantly acquiring new stock. Do contact me for more information of further titles not presently listed. Published by Used ⁄Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good tight condition, undated c1920's, illustrated, foxing on fore edge, owners signature on end page, sporadic marks, blue boards, heavily faded, shelf wear.

Macready's entry in the Oxford DNB states that he destroyed his diary and personal papers after the publication of his memoirs in 1924, and that of his father notes that he dealt with William Charles Macready's 'copious and uninhibited diaries' in similar fashion in 1914 - two years after the appearance of Toynbee's edition. The present collection of eighteen items is in good condition, lightly aged, and folded for postage. All signed 'C F N Macready' and addressed to 'My dear Toynbee'. The text of the letters totals 35pp (compising 1p, 8vo; 25pp, 12mo; 9pp, 16mo). No dates are given, but a card from the Victoria Hotel, Manchester is in its envelope, postmarked 6 July 1911 and addressed to 'W. Toynbee Esq / 30. South Eaton Place / London S.W.' In it Macready complains that he has been 'bundled off here to stop the strikers at two hours untill [sic] last night'. (In November of 1910, according to the Oxford DNB, he had been 'sent to command troops in support of police dealing with possible disorders arising from a miners' strike'. The three longest and most interesting letters, from 16, 22 and 28 November [1924], with the letterhead of the Grand Hotel des Lecques, Plage des Lecques, St Cyr-sur-Mer, all refer to the recent publication of his autobiography. In the first he writes that 'The agents say it is well turned out. Personally I think the price to high for a big sale but that of course is Hutchinson's [the publisher] affair.' He was 'rather amused at the review in Times of 14th. The writer I should say is rather more of a purely litterary [sic] stamp than of military habits.' As 'the galley proofs are destroyed' he asks Toynbee's advice on the charge of £14 from 'King Hall & Arbuthnot', 'for the alterations you & I made apart from printers' errors'. He complains that his hotel has been invaded by a 'party of Americans', and comments on his recent reading: 'He mauls Randolph Churchill badly, & legitimacy in royal & upper circles seems rather the exception than the rule!' In the second of the three he comments on reviews and complains of printers' errors. 'Your praise of the work is very gratifying as from "one who knows", & you have made a friend for life of the lady who slaved at the typing, who, I always tell her, is prejudiced.' There is reference to a wed. ding at St Maur and 'Letty', and there are further complaints about Americans at the hotel. He concludes, with reference to a London scandal known as the 'Robinson Cheque Case': 'That Robinson case is pretty lurid - I presume the potentate is the Shah of Persia - It should make a good plot for the next Empire Review. Lady Diana Duff Cooper (Manners) in the role of Mrs. Robinson and Angela Forbes as Mrs. Bevan!' He returns to the scandal in the third letter: 'I am wondering if the "Rajah" in the Robinson case could be Rhanjitsinghi - the cricketer. It looked at first rather like the Shah. No doubt he followed the practices of "the cities of the plain". Elsewhere in the letter he expresses satisfaction with Hutchinson's advertising, and the reviews he is receiving: 'I am having all the Press notices suck in my m.ss. books'. Regarding the printing costs 'Arbuthnot wrote me that he had received your note & was fighting H., whom he had got the better of on a former occasion for an extortionate charge.' Regarding 'Dougherty's effusion yesterday' he writes: 'No I am quite sure I had not confused him with anyone else - I can see him before me now "screaming" & waving his arms. My difficulty is that I am away from all my notes, especially the Royal Com[missio]n. proceedings on the Howth incident, which I had written for.' In an earlier letter, evidently written after the 1912 publication of his father's diaries, he refers to a 'Miss Hogarth', who 'mentions one slip, probably the result of the handwriting in the diaries'. In another letter, with a reference to the recent death of the actor Laurence Irving which dates it to 1914, Macready announces his return to London (from Ire.

Two Volumes. Octavo. Frontispiece, 694 pages [continuous pagination through both volumes]. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With several, very interesting remarks regarding the formig of Jewish Battalions, "composed mainly of Jews whose linguistic qualifications were confined to Hebrew, Russian or Yiddish, large numbers of whom it was suggested would be found in the East of London. Jewish officers and non-commissioned officers already serving in the Army were allowed to volunteer for these battalions, which were trained and organized at Plymouth by Lieut.-Colonel J.H.Patterson, D.S.O., who had rendered good service at Gallipoli in command of the Zion Mule Corps. The raising of these units was not without its humorous sides. The East End Jew was by no means over anxious to risk his skin for the land of his adoption, and a good many made themselves scarce as soon as they were called up. The police were given the name of the absentee - for example, Isaac Cohen - but when they searched the locality they found perhaps a hundred Isaac Cohens." General Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Baronet, GCMG, KCB, PC (Ire) (7 May 1862 9 January 1946), known affectionately as Make-Ready (close to the correct pronunciation of his name), was a British Army officer. He served in senior staff appointments in the First World War and was the last British military commander in Ireland, and also served for two years as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis in London. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. This book was officially 'Compiled for the Use of Recruiting Officers, Military Representatives and Tribunals', but being on general sale in bookshops, it was also used to demonstrate to civilian male employers that women could indeed carry heavy weights, operate lathes and milk horses without falling over, thus freeing up more of their male relatives to send to the trenches. Large tall 4to. in printed thin card covers, 93pp, including 72 large and quite wonderful b/w photos on 32 pages of glossy paper showing women at work in primarily heavy industries and farms . [CONDITION: A well preserved VERY GOOD clean and tight unmarked copy (mild creasing to covers around spine, pages moderately tanned, small kink to top corner of page-block fore-edge from bumping) ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . To see more of our books on Women's History / Feminism etc type DbbWOMEN in the Keywords search box . __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Macready's entry in the Oxford DNB states that he destroyed his diary and personal papers after the publication of his memoirs in 1924. If the present gossipy specimen is anything to go by, the loss of this material is most regrettable. (The ODNB entry for his father notes that he dealt with William Charles Macready's 'copious and uninhibited diaries' in similar fashion in 1914 - two years after the appearance of Toynbee's edition.) See also the entry for Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955). 2pp, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Signed 'C F N Macready' and addressed to 'My dear Toynbee'. He begins by explaining that he has been confined to his room since 'a sharp attack of Bronchial Influenza': 'The bore of it is that it touches up the lungs & that entails care for some weeks.' Turning to the English papers he writes: 'I see by this mornings Daily Mail that Almeric Fitzroy has apparently disturbed the Empire with his book!' (Fitzroy's memoirs were published in 1925, and quickly went through a further five editions.) There follows a long assessment of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland and her three marriages (she had divorced the third, Col. George Ernest Hawes, as a result of his homosexuality earlier in the year), prompted by her book 'That Fool of a Woman, and four other Sombre Tales' (1925), which, according to the Oxford DNB, revealed 'much about her marital misadventures'. 'I saw a notice of Millicent Sutherland's book but that is all. I knew the lady well. She has traces of great beauty and during the War ran a hospital first at La Panne for the [?] Belges & later as an annexe to one of our hospitals at Calais. She tried to work old Johnnie French to let her & her nurses roam about the battle front, and I was called in to anchor her which I did effectually at Calais. Her husband the Duke was much older than her & in love with his library, & it is well known that she "kept" the FitzGerald man & gave him a good allowance. No one could understand why she married him on the Duke's death as he drank like a fish & was a notorious waster. Having divorced him it was equally incomprehensible why she married Hawes. Of course her stock - the Rosslyn - is queer, & may account for much! I don't know Hawes but did hear that he had a tendency towards the Dead Sea fruits.' He ends by asking Toynbee's opinion of Sinclair Lewis, and by explaining that 'this grippe of mine will delay my trip to London for a bit. If we get a St. Martin's summer I may venture'.