Foreign Legion, Signed (28 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Signed by author on half title page.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 149 Pages. A Two-line author's gift inscription to the original owner on the front endpaper. No other marks or stamps or defects noted to this otherwise as new book. Desloge Finally got around to recounting his life. This book follows that great literary tradition of writing a book whether people want to read it or not. No one asked him for it. His children have heard it all before, and it certainly won't' fly off the shelves of the bodice-ripper section in your local Dons Bookstore. No name dropping of the rich-and-famous here. Not one kiss-and-tell story. Desloge has a singular perspective on this country's turning points, along with an ironic, often self-mocking point-of-view so we're glad to hear what he's got to say about The Great Depression, seen through the eyes of a St. Louis rich kid, World War II as a 16-year- old who experienced it while loading the dead and wounded out of North African and Italian foxholes into American Field Service ambulances; and Latin American backwater poverty, or in the book's front cover St. George's shield (upper right) and the Kangaroo Rat (lower left) were both insignia's of the British Eighth Army. "Desert Rats" was their nickname. As an ambulance driver he saw his share of combat, and a lot of its aftermath. If it was Egypt where Desloge first gained empathy for Third Worlders he seems almost to have had more kinship with the Arab camp followers than his British Tommy messmates. He has carried it forward in his philanthropy in the field of family planning. This he hopes, will be his legacy; and it certainly seems to have brought his life around full circle, back to the days of the Depression, when dire poverty and the extremes of rich and poor shook this country and much of world to its knees. Inscribed By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Binding tight and square, Pages are clean and unmarked. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, inscribed by author on title page. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #515. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Printing. Flat-signed by author on Title Page with NO inscription. Black paper boards with blue foil-stamped spine. FINE cond with only slight bumping to spine edges (NO chipping, soiling, rubbing, creases or tears). NO markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ is VG- with price intact: $29.99. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. (First Edition, First Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket shows slight edge wear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Flatsigned by the author on the title page. Clean like new copy. With photos throughout. Jacket has some light rubbing at corners. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Harper Johnson (illustrator). 1st Edition. A World Landmark book (W-22) Unclipped dust jacket with catalog of titles in series on verso. Publisher's blue cloth with blue and red title and decorations. Map end papers. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Red top stain to top edge of text block. With a type written letter signed to the young reader by the author is enclosed. I have other books in this series, all in similar excellent condition. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . No Dust Jacket Inscribed by author on front endpage. Reading copy only. Frontis detatched. (world war, 1939-1945, american, personal narratives ).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition 2016, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Signed and inscribed by Author to named person . Published by Regnery. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, sharp corners, no names no underlinings no highlights no bent page corners, Not a reminder. DJ new, bright and shiny, no edgewear, no tears, no chips, price not clipped. 8vo, 332 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Mass-market paperback, sturdy book, glossy wappers with color photo of marching Legion troops on front wrapper, spine and back wrapper in yellow with shades of red at top edges, 314 browned but supple pages, a photo of Murray in uniform and in suit on top back. Creased at bottom tip of page 102. In neat blue ink on half-title page: "Shiker" (with flourish beneath) "With best wishes from Simon 2 vii '80." Very light surface wear at top front edge, very slight wear spine top right corner. Near Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Alex de Bruyn, the subject. Foreword by Alex de Bruyn, 2018. Publication of 285 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Signed & Inscribed By Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Home for the Aged stamped inside. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. 205pp., b/w plates,Original publisher's brown cloth lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author 'To Bob Neill with the authors best wishes. A R Cooper "Old soldiers never die, they write right away."' Author, an Englishman, joined the Legion at 15, fought at the Dardanelles & won the Croix de Guerre before he was 16. 'An indictment and vindication. of the much vilified and romanticized French Foreign Legion.' Fine in fine dust jacket. Signedes.

ISBN-10: 0246119756 ISBN-13: 978-0246119759 SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. First edition. VG+ showing slight bumping and rubbing. There are no further ink marks or writing. A clean example in VG+ dustwrapper showing very minor wear, bumping and light rubbing. A very pleasing example indeed. The dustwrapper is housed in a protective removable sleeve. RARE SIGNED. 11003.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. inscribed and initialed? With enclosed letter by Thomas Brooks. Inscribed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. Hardcover edition. 187pp, octavo. Inscribed by King. soiling to front hinge, spine tear at top, binding lightly weak with mild lean yet solid, Good.

Glossy Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Text: Latvian. Signed by author on title page and dated 12-21-98. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Octavo. illustrated paper boards, blue cloth spine, white label on spine, 153 pp, this copy neither signed nor numbered, plastic cover, wrinkled at its edges, top and fore edges foxed, Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by Author. This copy is SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the endpaper. The book itself is scarce. In straightforward secondhand condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Fiction. Signed by Author. Inventory No: 78362.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition : Signed. Large 12mo hardcover, (blank) (14) 11-314 (blank) , signed by Ron Ely and Dan_______(indecipherable) on endpaper, blue cloth with red/brown lettering, tight and square spine, pages bright and unmarked, the covers have no discernable shelfwear, hint of foxing on endpaper, lightest of spotting on top edge, top edge stained red, 5 plates by John C Burroughs, the author's son, condition, conservatively, VG++++ or slightly better. Book in full DJ, small pea-size chip at tip of spine, light edgewear, else VG- in clear mylar jacket protector. Back panel of DJ has blurbs of Excape on Venus and Land of Terror. Solid and bright copy. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 314pp pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition : Signed. Large 12mo hardcover, (blank) (14) 11-314 (blank) , signed by Ron Ely (who was "Tarzan" in several movies) and Dan_______(indecipherable) on endpaper, blue cloth with red/brown lettering, tight and square spine, pages bright and unmarked, the covers have no discernable shelfwear, hint of foxing on endpaper, lightest of spotting on top edge, top edge stained red, 5 plates by John C Burroughs, the author's son, condition, conservatively, VG++++ or slightly better. Book in full DJ, small pea-size chip at tip of spine, light edgewear, else VG- in clear mylar jacket protector. Back panel of DJ has blurbs of Excape on Venus and Land of Terror. Solid and bright copy. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 314pp pages.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-10] 11-314 [315-316: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], five inserted plates with illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, original blue pebbled cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. This copy signed on the front free end paper by Ray Bradbury with "ERB'S FAN." Additionally signed on the front panel of the dust jacket by Danton Burroughs and Jock Mahoney (who played Tarzan in two films). Tarzan fights the Japanese on the island of Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies during World War II. [Reference: Heins FL-1]. Light damp stain to upper corner of sheets and front and rear covers, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with blue ink stains (lines) to upper and lower covers from a old style dust jacket protector. (31867).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The author's presentation copy of this first edition sequel to 'Beau Geste'. The first edition. In the publisher's cloth binding with the original, unclipped, illustrated, dust wrapper. The author's presentation copy, with the author's signed bookplate to the front paste-down. 'Good Gestes' is a sequel to P. C. Wren's popular adventure novel, 'Beau Gestes'. It is a collection of short stories following the characters of Beau Geste, his brothers, and their comrades in the French Foreign Legion. Stories featured include, 'What's in a Name', and, 'The Devil and Digby Geste'. Percival Christopher Wren was an English adventure fiction writer. He is best known for his novel, 'Beau Geste', set in North Africa during the period before the First World War. The work had been adapted numerous times for film and radio, including the 1939 film starring Gary Cooper, and the 1966 film starring Guy Stockwell. With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the book, and the publisher's advertising pamphlet inserted into the novel. The half title page is present. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with little shelf wear. Fading to the spine. Some offsetting to the free endpapers. Author's signed bookplate to the front paste-down. The original, unclipped dust wrapper is in very smart condition. Some shelf wear to the edges and spine. Spine is slightly darkened. Handling marks to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age-toned but otherwise bright and clean with some light spotting towards the front and rear. Spotting to the fore-edge. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

First edition of the last Tarzan story published during Burroughs' lifetime. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 5 plates by John Coleman Burroughs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sheldon Neubauer, with best wishes Edgar Rice Burroughs." Fine in a fine dust jacket. The noble savage Tarzan first appeared in Burroughs' 1912 story Tarzan of the Apes, published in the pulp magazine The All-Story and in book form two years later. An archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by Mangani great apes, Tarzan spawned innumerable works in literature and film, including 25 sequels and the popular Tarzan movie franchise which lasted from the 1930s to the 1960s. The twenty-second novel in the series, Tarzan and the "Foreign Legion" was the last new work by Burroughs to be published during his life. The book was offered to Argosy magazine, in 1945, for serial publication, as per every Tarzan story previously, but the story was rejected by them and returned. Burroughs published it himself, almost two years later.

Original Aquarell von ca. 1940. Auf Papier aufgezogen. -- Blatt-Maße: ca. 34 x 15 cm. Signiert. -- gut erhalten. || Original watercolor drawing from c. 1940. Signed. Laid down on paper. -- in good condition. || Dessin original datant d'environ 1940. || We were not able to find any further information on this French artist. According to a note on the inside of the portofolio of this drawings, he lived in the Villa Butterfly in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais). // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10.

Two pages, 8vo, paper bleached by text clear and complete. "Many thanks for your two letters. | 1. Thank you for the good advice in the first. Will you kindly tell me whether the Legion film that you saw was that of my book 'The Wages of Virtue'. This was filmed in America with Gloria Swanson as heroine & a star cast, but I have neither seen nor heard anything of it. | 2. I do not think that 'Tigress' was copyrighted in America in any way. The authoress never heard anything about this being done. .[signed etc, then postscript] I am sending you a 'John o'London' which may be of interest to you.".

Photograph. This is an original, signed, Second World War photograph of then-British General Henry Maitland Wilson inspecting the French Foreign Legion. The photograph is signed "H Maitland Wilson" across the bottom right, and measures 4.5 x 3.5 inches (11.43 x 8.89 cm). Though small, the image is crisp and has wonderful composition. Maitland Wilson is flanked by French and U.S. commanders on his left and right and a row of splendidly attired Legionnaires with their swords raised extended at an angle on the right. Condition is good, the image nominally worn along the right edge and very slightly rippled with surface scuffing visible under raking light. Nonetheless, the image is crisp and bright. Adhesive scarring to the verso suggests that this image was once part of a scrap book. The photograph is undated, but likely captured in 1941. Field Marshal Henry Maitland "Jumbo" Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (1881-1964) was appointed general officer in 1939, commanding British troops in Egypt amid the looming international threat. This marked the beginning of eight years of overseas command service. Wilson was highly regarded by Anthony Eden, then the Secretary of War, who cabled from Cairo on 21 February, recommending Wilson lead the expeditionary force in Greece. British Forces ultimately withdrew, but Wilson's "tactical skill was evident in the conduct of the withdrawal" (ODNB). After commanding the Greek expedition, Wilson was appointed in May 1941 to command British troops in Palestine and Trans-Jordan likely the time and place captured in this image. Successive commands included Syria and Palestine, Persia and Iraq, and, in 1944, Supreme Allied Command in the Mediterranean. Maitland-Wilson was promoted Field-Marshal in January 1945.Maitland Wilson's was a venerable military career spanning long decades of dire engagements. He joined the Second Battalion in South Africa after the relief of Ladysmith where he served until the end of the Boer War. He was then a Brigade Major during the First World War during the Battle of Somme, the Third Battle of Ypres. When General Gott was shot down flying into Cairo in 1942, Maitland Wilson was Churchill's preferred choice to replace Gott as commander of the Eighth Army, but both Brooke and Smuts advocated for Montgomery, and Churchill acquiesced. Maitland Wilson was instead appointed Commander of the Tenth Army in Persia and Iraq. Maitland Wilson died on 31 December 1964, less than a month before Churchill. "The mourners who attended Field-Marshal Lord Wilson's memorial service in January 1965 at Westminster Abbey must have been conscious of the fact that Churchill was lying in state in Westminster Hall only yards away Unlike most of Churchill's generals, Wilson was of the same generation as the Prime Minister. This, perhaps more than any other factor, accounted for the mutual understanding the one had for the other." (Churchill's Generals, p.166).