Jean de LATTRE DE TASSIGNY

First edition, one of 265 numbered copies on pure fil de lana, deluxe copy.
Iconography, complete copy with its two folding maps placed at end of volume.
Half long-grained green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, abstract patterned paper boards, olive green paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny: "Au colonel Merlat, organisateur et valeureux chef du 8ème régiment de Dragons, de la 1ère armée Fse. En très fidèle et amical témoignage. J. de Lattre. 31 Janvier 1950." (To Colonel Merlat, organizer and valorous chief of the 8th Regiment...

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Small repaired tear at foot of spine, foxing on top edge.
Iconography, complete with publisher's slip, its two folding maps placed at end of volume and its publisher's slip, bibliophile's blind stamp in lower right margin of first endpaper.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny to Maurice Berthon.

First bilingual edition (in French with the English translation on facing pages) of this speech delivered by General De Lattre in Saigon on July 11, 1951.
Small corner losses to the marginally browned boards, handsome interior condition.

Photographic three-quarter bust portrait of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in uniform.

Slight foxing.

Autograph inscription signed by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in faded blue ink in the upper right corner: "To my friend Pauchant, President of Rancourt-Verdun, most cordially and faithfully... Verdun 1937 - Colmar 1947." (our own translation)

Original photograph by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, shown slightly in profile.
Autograph shipment dated May 29, 1954 and signed by his widow Simonne: "To Corporal Caillet, knight of the legion of honor on Sept. 25, 1917. In memory of the colonel of the 151 in 1935-1937. S. de Lattre. May 29 1954 "