The Life of a Boy

by Ian Fleming / Bondiana, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, Dso

$45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Oliver and Boyd, 1947. Military biography FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 14cm , pp.181; 1 , blank. Illustrated with photographic plates. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Neat ink ownership, mild spotting. Very good, without jacket. Memorial account of Guards officer Daniel Meinertzhagen, killed on reconnaissance at the German-Dutch border near Nijmagen in October 1944. Son of the author, Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO

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