[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Marshal Foch, Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies in WWI

[Charles Agvent]

  From our latest internet-only catalogue: Spring 2008 containing 77 
fine pieces and now posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

  FOCH, Marshal Ferdinand (FOCH, Marechal F.). DE LA CONDUITE DE  LA
GUERRE.  LA  MANOEUVRE POUR LA BATAILLE. Nancy - Paris  -  Strasbourg:
Berger-Levrault  1919. Fifth Edition. Original wraps bound into  cloth
at  an  early date. Illustrated with thirteen maps and charts.  SIGNED
by  the  author on the front endpaper. Below Foch's signature is  this
handwritten  SIGNED  statement:  "This  volume was  signed  as  a  [?]
by/Ferdinand  Foch,  Marichal  de France, at/Columbia  University,  19
Nov.  1921, immediately/after receiving the degree of Doctor of  Laws,
/for  which degree, I, as Chairman of the/Bd. of Trustees had proposed
him./Wm.  Barclay Parsons." Parsons, an engineer who designed the Cape
Cod  Canal,  was  also Chief Engineer of the New  York  Rapid  Transit
Commission,  and  as such responsible for the construction of the  New
York  Subway system. Foch served as general in the French Army  during
World  War  I and was made Marshal of France in its final year,  1918.
Shortly  after  the  start of the Spring  Offensive,  Germany's  final
attempt  to  win the war, Foch was chosen as Supreme Commander of  the
Allied  Armies,  a position that he held until 11 November 1918,  when
he  accepted  the  German Surrender. Parson's bookplate on  the  front
pastedown.  Aging  of  cheap  paper,  but  otherwise  close  to  Fine.
                                                               $1500.00

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