Author: LOCKHART R.H. Bruce
Title: Comes the Reckoning. THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO LORD ISMAY
Description: Putnam,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip gilt a little dulled but wholly legible, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO LORD ISMAY WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ['WISEST OF COUNSELLORS AND KINDEST OF FRIENDS'] ON TITLE. A close friend of the author, General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay (1887-1965) served as Churchill's military assistant during WWII and was subsequently appointed Secretary-General of NATO. A UNIQUE AND SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY.

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