The Story of the Guides
YOUNGHUSBAND, Colonel G.J.
[Fifth Impression.]
DESMOND YOUNG'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
Published: Macmillan, 1909
Stock code: 41640
Price: £62.00
8vo., Fifth Impression, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, free endpapers mildly browned; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and ruled in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF DESMOND YOUNG AND BEARS HIS BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Published a year after the first edition. General Desmond Young (1892-1966), soldier, explorer, biographer and actor; biographer of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, which book forms the basis of Henry Hathway's feature film 'The Desert Fox' (1951) starring James Mason. Perkins (Regiments of Empire), p.93; (Regiments), p.409.