[Rarebooks] FS: DE LA CONDUITE DE LA GUERRE, 1919, INSCRIBED by Marshal Foch, Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $750 NET

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. (#014369) $1,500.00

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