Cooper Sir Duff (5 results)
Published by The Dropmore Press, London, England, 1949
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.Black Cat Hill Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Limited First Edition (1949) one of 600 copies printed on handmade paper of which this is number 238. Very Good+ in a Good DJ: The Book shows minimal shelf-soiling along the bottom edge of the red cloth-covered boards; a half-inch line… of soil/faint discoloration or perhaps foxing(? ) at the bottom edge of the front panel; the top edge has been lightly sprayed in red; former bookseller's pastedown stamp at the bottom of the rear pastedown endpaper; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections. The DJ shows wear to the corner tips and along the top edge of the panels, which show small loss to chips; a three-inch closed tear at the bottom edge of the front panel has been carefully tape-repaired from verso, as has a smaller tear at the heel of the backstrip; very mild rubbing and faint consequent soiling to the panels; the backstrip is slightly darkened and scuffed; unclipped. Remains attractive, but shows wear and tear. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo (9.35 x 6.15 x 0.6 Inches). Language: English. Weight: 12.5 ounces. Original red Buckram over boards. Rag-edged fore-edge. Gilt lettering on the backstrip; authors initials blind-stamped into the front panel; Dropmore Press' logo is blind-stamped on the rear panel. Hardback with DJ. Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (1890 1954) , known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian and writer. When Winston Churchill became prime minister in May 1940, he named Cooper as Minister of Information. In 1941, as a member of the Cabinet, he served as British Minister in Singapore before its fall to the Japanese. He later served an important role as representative to Charles de Gaulle's Free France (194344) and ambassador to France from 1944 to 1948. Cooper was raised to the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in 1948. He devoted the rest of his life to writing. During the war he had written a life of the Biblical King David, and in 1949 he published Sergeant Shakespeare, a book about Shakespeare's early life. The Cabinet Office tried in vain, on security grounds, to block publication of his only novel, Operation Heartbreak (1950) , as it was based on the real Operation Mincemeat, a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. He was created Viscount Norwich of Aldwick in the County of Sussex, in 1952, in recognition of his political and literary career. Cooper's sixth and final book was his acclaimed memoirs, Old Men Forget, which appeared on 5 July 1953. The Duff Cooper Diaries: 19151951, edited by his son John Julius Norwich, appeared posthumously in 2005. After Cooper's death, a British literary award, the Duff Cooper Prize, was established in his name. H. G. Wells, in The Shape of Things to Come which was published in 1934, predicted a Second World War in which Britain would not participate but would vainly try to effect a peaceful compromise. In this vision, Duff Cooper was mentioned as one of several prominent Britons delivering "brilliant pacific speeches" which "echo throughout Europe" but fail to end the war. On 28 November 2021, Cooper was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Lion, the highest decoration of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, in recognition of his opposition to the Munich Agreement. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; vi, 61 pages.
Published by Ed. Destino, 1992
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCondition: Bueno. Ed. Destino. Barcelona 1953. Cartone con sobrecubierta. 19x12. 179 pp.
Published by Ed. Destino, 1992
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Add to basketCondition: Bueno. Ed. Destino. Barcelona 1953. Cartone con sobrecubierta. 19x12. 179 pp.
Published by Faber & Faber, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 2 volumes : frontispiece portraits, maps [1 folded] ; 24 cm. Hardcover and dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear, small tears to dj. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. 402pp; xii, 484pp. Biography of Field-Marshal Earl Haig,… Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies on the Western Front during World War I. Cooper was the first historian to be allowed access to Haig's private diaries. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Published by 5 January No place, 1960
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basketWritten with the charm for which she was renowned. See her entry and his in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 4to, on two leaves of cartridge paper. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Mostly written in pencil, with good firm signature ('Yrs / Diana Cooper') and last few lines in red ink. Begins: 'My dear admiral - Forg…ive the scruffiness of the paper & the rudeness of a pencil but I'm in an unoccupied house & can find no essentials, tho' I found y. letter to-day & have no idea when it was posted. I hope not to long ago for you will have been thinking that I wasn't pleased to receive y. very amusing & entertaining letter. I used to hear an old friend A. E. W. Mason talk about Reggie Hall by the hour you must have known him too. I have not read the books you love writing but I am going to start "The Order of Release" [his 1947 book about the scandal surrounding the marriage of his grandparents Effie Ruskin and John Everett Millais] at once as the story of Effie always rivets me (the other day I saw a play on the subject acted & produced admirably at the Guildford [sic] Repertory theatre - you ought to find out when next they put it on & make a pilgramage [sic]).' She continues, with regard to her memoirs: 'I am surprised & delighted that you have liked the books I so dislike writing. I feel quite desperate about vol III. I've nothing more to say. Every body is alive & I can't be funny about them.' She finds herself 'in a slough of despondency', and has to drag herself out 'within 10 days'. She thanks him for writing, adding that she remembers him 'as freshly as tho' it were yesterday. Y. hair too of course: I hope it still lathers up - / Those were the good days indeed.' After stating: 'I feel a survivor: Winston should be dead.' she adds in red ink: 'O good! I've found a pen, & dipped it in my blood to be able to send you more thanks & the best possible wishes for 1960 / Yrs Diana Cooper'.