Tue Account (Signed and Inscribed)

Author(s): Tennant, Ernest [William Dalrymple]

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Max Parrish
Publication Year:	1957
Publication Place:	London, UK
Book ID:	018504
Catalogue(s):	Autobiography and Biography ◇ War, Military History and Weapons

First edition, first printing. 256pp, with a monochrome portrait plate frontispiece. In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Signed and inscribed by Ernest Tennant on the front free endpaper, 'To Amy, with very best wishes from Ernest Tennant, Christmas1957'. 8vo. Boards very gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Hint of toning to endpapers. Tennant was merchant banker and industrialist who advocated for closer links between the UK and Germany and for greater international co-operation in the years between the two world wars. An intelligence officer in the first world war, Tennant was sent by the British Government to Germany in the months before the second world war to liaise with German industrialists etc to influence them towards peace. Hard to find volume.

Keywords:

Second World War Military Intelligence First World War