Sergeant Shakespeare by Duff Cooper (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First American Edition. Cooper tries to prove that Shakespeare served a hitch in the Army. Inked name on endpaper. Bump to upper right corner of cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gold titles on blue cloth spine with pink boards, 96 pages. Previous owner's name inked on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket is price-clipped and show minor edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Book.

Condition: Fair. 1949. No Edition Stated. 100 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 100 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military art and science. Shakespeare, William Studies Biography. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military life. Shakespeare, William Biography. Military art and science. Military art and science England History 16th century. Military art and science in literature. Military art and science. Military history in literature. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 100pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (8s 6d). Jacket has some browning to spine, a few marks, little patchy edge/shelf wear, patchy browning to edges and some minor rubbing. Black boards are near fine with just a little pushing to a couple of corners. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Few spots of foxing to front and back end-papers. Top of pages little dusty. No other faults. A nicely preserved copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is hard-bound in light pink paper covered boards, with a gilt stamped blue cloth spine. The covers show a few spots of light soiling, light rubbing to the spine-ends, and bumping to the top corner of the upper cover. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. There is a previous owner signature at the top of the front free end-page.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 100 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military art and science. Shakespeare, William Studies Biography. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military life. Shakespeare, William Biography. Military art and science. Military art and science England History 16th century. Military art and science in literature. Military art and science. Military history in literature. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 96 pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Slight wear and toning to extremities. Neat ex libris to front pastedown. Edgewear and toning to unclipped jacket, with one small chip to head of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very good plus. First US edition, first printing. "A speculation on the hidden years of the poet's life." Corners very lightly bumped. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with two very short closed tears. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue hardcover. Spine slightly darkened, pages toned. Dust jacket condition: Spine slightly darkened. Small amount of loss to top of the spine, small tear top of the spine. Light edge wear. Not price clipped.

Hardcover. 96 p. Occasional footnotes. From Wikipedia: "Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author. He wrote six books, including an autobiography, Old Men Forget, and a biography of Talleyrand, the 18th and 19th century French diplomat. He wrote one novel, Operation Heartbreak (1950).The only son of fashionable society doctor Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff, daughter of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, Duff Cooper was the youngest of their four children. He had royal connections: his maternal uncle, the first Duke of Fife, was married to Louise, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Edward VII, while his mother's maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress Dorothy Jordan. Cooper enjoyed a typical gentleman's upbringing of country estates, London society, Wixenford School, Eton College and New College, Oxford. At Oxford, his Eton friendship with The Honourable John Nevile Manners, won him entry into a famous circle of young aristocrats and intellectuals known as the Coterie, including Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Raymond Asquith (son of the Prime Minister), Sir Denis Anson, Edward Horner and the celebrated Lady Diana Manners. He cultivated a reputation for eloquence and fast living and although he had established a reputation as a poet, he earned an even stronger reputation for gambling, womanizing, and drinking in his studied emulation of the life of the 18th and 19th Whig statesman Charles James Fox. Following Oxford, he entered the Foreign Service and, owing to the national importance of his work at the cipher desk, he was excluded from military service until 1917, when he joined the Grenadier Guards. He served with distinction as a lieutenant in the campaigns of 1918, winning a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for conspicuous gallantry. Almost all of his closest friends, including Shaw-Stewart, Horner, Asquith and John Manners were killed in the war, drawing him closer to Lady Diana Manners, whom he married in 1919. An extremely popular social figure hailed for her beauty and eccentricities, she was one of several daughters born to the Duke and Duchess of Rutland; her biological father, however, was believed to be the English politician Harry Cust, known as one of the most handsome men of his day. The Coopers' marriage was fraught with infidelities, notably Duff's affairs with the Franco-American Singer sewing-machine heiress Daisy Fellowes, the socialite Gloria Guinness, the French novelist Louise Leveque de Vilmorin and the writer Susan Mary Alsop (then an American diplomat's wife, by whom he had an illegitimate son, William Patten Jr. ), The polo player 'Boy' Capel's wife Diana, and the Anglo-Irish socialite and fashion model Maxime de La Falaise were two more, although Lady Diana reportedly did not mind, explaining to their son that "They were the flowers, but I was the tree." Returning to the Foreign Service, he became principal private secretary to two ministers and played a significant role in the Egyptian and Turkish crises in the early 1920s, before winning a seat in Parliament as a Conservative for Oldham in 1924. He gave one of the most acclaimed maiden speeches of the century and became known as a stalwart supporter of Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, and a friend of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill. Cooper became Financial Secretary to the War Office in January, 1928, before losing his seat in the 1929 election when the Conservative Party lost power. Turning to literature, he produced Talleyrand (1932), a short biography that was published by his nephew Rupert Hart-Davis to critical praise and lasting success. The 1931 by-election for the constituency of Westminster St. George's saw the Empire Free Trade Crusade party threatening the Conservative position at a time when satisfaction with Baldwin's leade. …

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 100 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military art and science. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military life. Shakespeare, William Biography. Military art and science. Military art and science England History 16th century. Military art and science in literature. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. HASKELL HOUSE 1977 REPRINT OF THE 1949 EDITION.NO D/J.ex- library so some stamps etc.very good clean copy. .sent next working day from the u/k 1st class. 0.0.

Card Covers. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 100 pages. A strong case is made out for Shakespeare having served in the army and been promoted to non-commissioned rank. Dust-jacket a trifle grubby with one one-inch tear.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 100 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military art and science. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Military life. Shakespeare, William Biography. Military art and science. Military art and science England History 16th century. Military art and science in literature. 1 Kg.…

1st edition orig. cloth Nice copy small octavo 100pp, Small owner's inscription otherwise VG copy.

Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, strappi macchie Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

Hardback. Condition: VG. VG- DW. 1st Edition. Slightly cocked with edges of text a bit browned or spotted. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is soiled with chipping/closed tears to top and bottom of spine.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (william shakespeare, poetry, biography).

brossura. Condition: Poor. Copertina cartonata con sovraccoperta cartonata con alette informative, lievemente sporca. Tagli e pagine sporchi di polvere e ingialliti.  100 Mediocre (Poor) . Book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1949. Initials in pencil and small inscription by Williamson to endpaper. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. The book is very good+ and bright. Cloth patchy/dull in places. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images ca be taken upon request. Ref17593.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in crisp black cloth with bright, gilt titles to spine, this 1949 hardback First Edition is VG in Vg wrapper (unclipped). 100pp with slight foxing to front endpapers and spine of wrapper slightly faded. Otherwise all VG.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this intriguing study into a lesser known period of Shakespeare's life, during which the author proposes he spent as a soldier. The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'Sergeant Shakespeare' offers a close study of the military metaphor in Shakespeare's works, and pursues the evidence that Shakespeare was a military man in the lesser known years of his early manhood.Written by Duff Cooper, a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with damp stains to the boards, otherwise only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with only light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…