Poems From The Desert; Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. With A Foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1944. First Edition / Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Signed limited edition of Poems From The Desert, Versus by Members of the Eighth Army, by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein.. 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 (truncated) 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. (Inventory #: 17061)