Rendel Alexander Meadows (2 results)
More imagesPublished by UK, 1885
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United KingdomLasting Words Ltd
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Add to basketPaper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written Letter and Signed by Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel. A long letter dealing with business and engineering work in Calcutta India. Dated 1885. Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1828 - 1918) British civil engineer. Born in Plymouth, he was responsible for the Shadwell basin,… the Connaught tunnel and the Royal Albert Dock in London, the Albert and Edinburgh Docks in Leith. In 1857-1858 he visited India, and was consulting engineer to the India Office, the East India Railway and other Indian railways, and was a member of the commission to determine narrow gauge for Indian Railways, in 1870.Size is 220mm x 130mm. Condition is quite good and age toned to edges. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17095. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by London: Allan Wingate, 1953, 1953
- First Edition
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketFirst edition of this memoir by a British lawyer-turned-special agent, who served behind enemy lines, alongside Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the Greek resistance. His account offers a valuable alternative perspective on the events portrayed in Stanley Moss's Ill Met by Moonlight (1950). Alexander "Sandy" Meadows Rendel (1910-1991) s…pent the first half of the Second World War serving as an artillery officer in the Middle East. He spoke Greek, having travelled to the country in peacetime. Following its formation in 1940, the Special Operations Executive deployed him and other agents - including his friend Thomas Dunbabin - to Nazi-occupied Greece. Rendel describes serving with Leigh Fermor ("I could hardly have had a more cheerful companion than Paddy" - p. 133) and the road to liberation in the aftermath of Leigh Fermor's successful kidnapping of General Heinrich Kreipe. Unlike other copies we have encountered, this example has the maps printed on the front pastedown rather than the front free endpaper verso. No priority between these states has been determined. Octavo. Original brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, maps on front pastedown. With dust jacket designed by John Craxton. Ownership signature ("Tillett") on front free endpaper verso. Binding well preserved, save for a little discolouration and bumping at spine ends and touch of bowing to front board; jacket unclipped, light chipping and rubbing, small split: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
