Charles de Gaulle. War Memoirs. Volume One. The Call to Honour 1940-1942
DE GAULLE, General Charles
Translated by Jonathan Griffin. [First English Edition. Complete set of this volume].
NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Collins, 1955
Stock code: 49495
Price: £112.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 17 plates on 7 and 5 maps in the text; cloth (blue/red respectively) , gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped, lightly chipped dustwrapper.
The set comprises: Vol. I: text; Vol. II documents. First volume of De Gaulle's memoirs, originally published by Plon (Paris) as 'Memoires de Guerre: L'Appel 1940-1942'. This is the sole volume published by Collins; the second and third volumes appeared under the imprint of Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Enser, p.173 (recording erroneously all three volumes by Weidenfeld & Nicolson).