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[MORGAN] W. Adolphe ROBERTS.
MORGAN, AMIRAL DES BOUCANIERS.
Paris, Payot (Bibliothèque historique), (novembre) 1934. In-8, broché.
Bookseller reference : 8458
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BUCCANEERS CRICKET CLUB Cricket Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord TEDDER
A.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens London SW3 and dated 1 December 1954. A.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
1954. Single sheet 8vo. a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner held at Lords: 'I've already got a date I can't budge!'. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder 1st Baron Tedder 1890-1967 was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College Cambridge he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the new Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936 after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe the most senior such British position immediately beneath General Eisenhower on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930 The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes. The Club's history has been written twice by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. unknown
Bookseller reference : 41696
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BUCCANEERS CRICKET CLUB Cricket Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord TEDDER
T.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens London SW3 and dated 4 January 1957. T.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
1957. Single sheet 8vo. a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner held at Lords. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder 1st Baron Tedder 1890-1967 was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College Cambridge he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the new Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936 after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe the most senior such British position immediately beneath General Eisenhower on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930 The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes. The Club's history has been written twice by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. unknown
Bookseller reference : 41695
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BUCCANEERS CRICKET CLUB Cricket Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord TEDDER
T.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens London SW3 and dated 12 December 1951. T.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
1951. Single sheet 8vo. a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter confirms Tedder's intention to attend the Buccaneers' annual dinner held at Lords. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder 1st Baron Tedder 1890-1967 was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College Cambridge he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the new Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936 after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe the most senior such British position immediately beneath General Eisenhower on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930 The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an away team relying on the hospitality of the home clubs against which it competes. The Club's history has been written twice by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. unknown
Bookseller reference : 9855
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COOPER-PRICHARD A.H.
The Buccaneers. [Nautilus Library Edition].
8vo., with a neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned at margins; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, covers mildly age-marked and faded, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Dwight, Eleanor
Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slightly bumped front corner of book and dust jacket. 8 5/8"w x10 1/4"h. 296 pages. Full purple cloth boards. More than 300 illustrations. Previous owner's stamp inside.
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Geoffrey MOORE founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club. Cricket. Field Marshal EARL WAVELL
A.L.s witten on the stationery of The Athenaeum Club London and dated 20 November 1947. A.L.s. FROM FIELD MARSHAL EARL WAVELL
1947. Single sheet a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter confirms that Wavell will propose the toast at the Buccaneers' annual dinner held at Lords. Field-Marshal Earl Wavell 1883-1950 was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished British soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific ABDA American British Dutch and Australian Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' 1944. The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London. Founded in 1930 The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays as an away team relying on the hospitality of the home clubs against which it competes. The Club's history has been written twice by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. unknown
Bookseller reference : 9854
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Geoffrey MOORE founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club. Cricket. Field Marshal EARL WAVELL
T.L.s witten on the stationery of Wavell's residence at 23 Kingston House South London SW7 and dated 23 December 1949. T.L.s. FROM FIELD MARSHAL EARL WAVELL
1949. Single sheet a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter declines Moore's invitation to attend the annual dinner but carries Wavell's best wishes for the Club for the coming year during which he hopes to see tham in action. Field-Marshal Earl Wavell 1883-1950 was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific ABDA American British Dutch and Australian Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' 1944. The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London. Founded in 1930 The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes. The Club's history has been written twice by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. unknown
Bookseller reference : 41693
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Gerhard, Peter
Pirates on the West Coast of New Spain 1575-1742, Spain in the West VIII
[11], 12-274 pages. Glossary, bibliography, index. Fourteen monotone maps and illustrations. "This study is confined to piratical and other foreign incursions on the Pacific coast from Panama north, beginning in 1575 or 1576 and continuing for the next 167 years." - Preface. Above-average external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Contents clean. A worthy reading copy. Book
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Gilles LAPOUGE
LES PIRATES
Un ouvrage de 238 pages, format 140 x 205 mm, broché couverture couleurs rempliée, publié en 1987, Editions Phébus, collection "D'Ailleurs", bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126744836
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Gilles LAPOUGE
Les pirates. Forbans, flibustiers, boucaniers et autresgueux de mer
Payot Paris, Payot 1992. In-12 broché de 234 pages. Bon état
Bookseller reference : 126000
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Gilles LAPOUGE
Les pirates. Forbans, flibustiers, boucaniers et autresgueux de mer
Paris, Payot 1992. In-12 broché de 234 pages. Bon état
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GOSSE Philip
HISTOIRE DE LA PIRATERIE. Traduit de l'anglais par P Teillac, Capitaine de frégate de réserve.
Paris Payot 1933. In-8 broché couverture illustrée 396pp. Illustré de 4 cartes dont 2 à pleine page et 1 sur double page. Légère usure de la couverture, intérieur frais et complet.
Bookseller reference : GITh947
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Kritzler, Edward
Jewish Pirates Of The Caribbean - How A Generation Of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out An Empire In The New World In Their Quest For Treasure, Religious Freedom - And Revenge,
New York, Anchor Books, 2009. 8°, XI, 324 S., Text: englisch, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe Einbandecken minimal bestoßen, wenige Seiten mit ausradierten Bleistiftanstreichungen, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar.
Bookseller reference : 22920CB
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Le Golif, Louis
Memoirs of a buccaneer: being a wondrous and unrepentant account of the prodigious adventures and amours of King Louis XIV's loyal servant, Louis Adhemar Timothee Le Golif, known for his singular wound as Borgnefesse, captain of the buccaneers. Told by himself and edited by Gustave Alaux and A. t'Serstevens; translated by Malcolm Barnes.
236p. Hardcover Good condition in good d.j. good
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OEXMELIN Alexandre Olivier
Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers et boucaniers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable... Tome 1
Librairie Commerciale Et Artistique, 1967, in-8 rel. basane marron (14 x 21), 257 p., nouvelle édition corrigée et enrichie de fines reproductions de figures en taille-douce, illustrations et cartes en noir et blanc in-t. et hors-texte dont certaines dépliantes, lettrines, bandeaux et culs-de-lampe, frontispice en noir et b., sous rhodoïd, ex-libris du baron Hubert de Turckeim, signet, minimes traces d'usure en coiffes, bon état.
Bookseller reference : QWA-13312
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OEXMELIN Alexandre Olivier
Histoire de la flibuste et des aventuriers flibustiers et boucaniers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes - Tome 1
Louviers, L'Ancre de Marine, 2005, in-8 br. (15 x 22), 253 p., planches de gravures h.-t., très bon état.
Bookseller reference : QWA-16320
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OEXMELIN ou EXQUEMELIN (Alexandre Olivier).
Histoire des Avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes, Contenant tout ce qu’ils ont fait de plus remarquable depuis vingt années avec la Vie, les Mœurs, les Coûtumes des Habitans de Saint Domingue & de la Tortüe, & une Description exacte de ces lieux Le tout enrichi de Cartes Géographiques & de Figures en Taille-douce.
Paris, Jacques Le Febure, 1688. 2 tomes en un volume in-12, reliure postérieure basane très épidermée, fentes au dos et sur les mors, coiffes déchirées, coins usés. Titre-frontispice gravé (petite déchirure en marge interne), (22)-248-(16) pp. ; (6)-285-(16) pp., 3 cartes dépliantes (déchirures sur 2 et mouillure sur 1) et 4 gravures dont 3 à pleine page. Quelques rousseurs ou marges brunies, mouillure pâle sur les derniers feuillets, ex-libris : Sr John Percivale Baronet, of Burton, in the County of Cork in Ireland.
Bookseller reference : PHO-1736
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OEXMELIN ou EXQUEMELIN (Alexandre-Olivier) - RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN (Jacques) - DEFOE (Daniel) - MIST (Nathaniel) - JOHNSON (Charles).
HISTOIRE DES AVENTURIERS FLIBUSTIERS qui se sont signalés dans les Indes ; contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, avec la vie, les moeurs & les coutumes des Boucaniers, & des habitans de S. Domingue & de la Tortuë ; une description exacte de ces lieux, & un état des Offices, tant Ecclésiastiques que Séculiers, & ce que les grands Princes de l'Europe y possèdent. [Suivi de :] HISTOIRE DES AVENTURIERS FLIBUSTIERS qui se sont signalés dans les Indes ; contenant le Journal du Voyage fait à la Mer du Sud [par le Sieur Raveneau de Lussan] - HISTOIRE DES PIRATES ANGLOIS depuis leur Establissement dans l'Isle de la Providence jusqu'à présent, contenant toutes leurs Aventures, Pirateries, Meurtres, Cruautés, Excès, &c. avec la vie et les aventures de deux Femmes Pirates, Marie Read et Anne Bonny, et un Extrait des Lois & des Ordonnances concernant la Piraterie. Traduites de l'anglois, du capitaine Charles Johnson. [4 volumes].
1774 Lyon, Duplain, 1774. Quatre volumes in-12 (170 X 107 mm) basane fauve granitée, encadrement de filet noir sur les plats, dos lisse cloisonné et orné d'urnes dorées, pièces de titre et de tomaison, coupes filetées à froid, tranches rouges (Reliure de l'époque). Salissures à un plat, quelques épidermures, habiles et discrètes restaurations à la reliure de deux volumes.
Bookseller reference : 005518
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OEXMELIN Alexandre-Olivier
HISTOIRE DES AVENTURIERS, DES FLIBUSTIERS, ET DES BOUCANIERS D'AMERIQUE. Traduite du Hollandais par Alex.-Olivier Oexmelin
Paris Editions de la Sirène 1920 in-8 broché un volume, broché (agraphé) in-octavo Editeur (paperback in-octavo Editor) (19 x 12 cm), dos et couverture imprimés en noir, 1ère de couverture illustrée d'un bois gravé en noir, orné d'une gravure titre en noir + une carte en double page en noir + un plan en double page en noir + une gravure hors-texte en noir + 2 gravures in-texte en noir, 254 pages, 1920 Paris Editions de la Sirène Editeur,
Bookseller reference : 20735
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STERNBECK Alfred (Docteur)
HISTOIRE DES FLIBUSTIERS ET DES BOUCANIERS
1931 demi-reliure en toile rouge imitation chagrin grand in-octavo (red half cloth-boun in-octavo), dos long (spine without raised band) - titre frappé or - dorure estompée (gilt title - shaded off gilt), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper), tranches lisses (smooth edges), 16 illustrations, 421 pages, 1931 à Paris Payot,
Bookseller reference : 12609
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1980 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Media Guide
Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1980. softcover. There is some rubbing to the cover heavier along the spine. ; 156 pages . Tampa Bay Buccaneers paperback
Bookseller reference : 165903
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Information Guide
Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Very Good. 1987. softcover. Tampa Bay Buccaneers paperback
Bookseller reference : 313008
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1999 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Information Guide
Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Very Good. 1999. softcover. Tampa Bay Buccaneers paperback
Bookseller reference : 313009
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1993 Official Team Yearbook
Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Softcover. Tampa Bay Buccaneers paperback
Bookseller reference : 289533
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Official 1994 Team Yearbook
Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Softcover. Tampa Bay Buccaneers paperback
Bookseller reference : 289532
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TEDDER Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord
A.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3, and dated 1 December 1954. A.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords): 'I've already got a date I can't budge!'. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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TEDDER Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord
T.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3, and dated 4 January 1957. T.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords). Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WAVELL Field-Marshal EARL
A.L.s witten on the stationery of The Athenaeum Club, London, and dated 20 November 1947.. A.L.s. FROM FIELD MARSHAL EARL WAVELL
Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter confirms that Wavell will propose the toast at the Buccaneers' annual dinner (held at Lords). Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished British soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays as an away team relying on the hospitality of the home clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WAVELL Field-Marshal EARL
T.L.s witten on the stationery of Wavell's residence at 23 Kingston House South, London SW7, and dated 23 December 1949.. T.L.s. FROM FIELD MARSHAL EARL WAVELL
Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter declines Moore's invitation to attend the annual dinner, but carries Wavell's best wishes for the Club for the coming year during which he hopes to see tham in action. Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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