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The Military Attache. [Colonel Count Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen] : Journal of Our Mission to Fez 1909

London: Harrison & Sons, 1909., 1909

First printing. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph. 108 pp. + [1] page Camps. Illustrated with B & W photographs. Original gilt-stamped half-velum binding with printed paper over boards. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper: "To W. Nilsom [perhaps Nilson] & Eve | 'the ornamental (?) + useful | attache' | Vera Rattigan." On the preliminary page entitled "Dramatis Personae" she has boldly underlined her name. Vera Rattigan (Mrs. F. Rattigan) is pictured in the frontispiece photograph seated in front of her husband, W. F. Rattigan (First Secretary to Mission). The recipient of her inscription has written a full-page "biographical note on the author" on the rear free endpaper which reads in part: "Lord (Albert) Edward (Wilfred) Gleichen was born on Jan. 15th 1863. . . He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1881 and served with distinction in the army. . . The C. M. G. came to him in 1898 and C. B. in 1906, and presumably for his services [?] Mission to Fez, he received the K. C. V. O. in 1909. . . He wrote this entertaining account just after his return from Morocco and had it privately printed and gave it to his friends and companions. . . ." The boards have wear at the extremities and the endpapers are browned, else this is a tight, very good book; contents bright. Scarce and desirable.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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