Sowing Glory: The Memoirs of ""Mary Ambree"" the Englishwman-Legionary by Wren, Percival Christopher ( Wren, P.C. (ed.) - Ambree, Mary - 1931

NY: Frederic A. Stokes, 1931. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Darkened spine otherwise very good. No markings. No dustjacket. (box 158)

John Murray, 1933. re-print, brown blotchy pages, faded scruffy cover with paint splatters on front end,. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Frederick Stokes, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Fading to lettering on spine..

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1931. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, no significant wear, just a touch of foxing to the fore-edge; jacket a bit darkened along spine, with a few tiny edge-nicks]. Pseudonymous memoir, based on the diary of a woman who purportedly served a five-year hitch in the French Foreign Legion (after having been an ambulance driver during World War I), as "edited and retold" by a guy who did as much to romanticize the F.F.L. as anyone, primarily through his popular "Beau" novels ("Beau Geste," "Beau Sabreur" and "Beau Ideal"), all of which were also filmed. Wren's claims to have served in the Legion himself, however, have been pretty much debunked, so as for the veracity of "Mary Ambree" -- who adopted that pseudonym, by the way, in homage to a real historical figure by that name, an English army captain who fought in England's war against Spain in the… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ is in a plastic sleeve, and has wear, soiling, edge tears, and chips. Bookseller's label inside front cover.. x, 380 p. This is by the author of Beau Geste, and other works. Who was Mary Ambree? She was an Englishwoman who jointed the French Foreign Legion for love of adventure and to show what a woman could do. These true episodes of live and adventure in the Legion are selected from her diary and edited, at her request.

London: John Murray, 1931. The memoirs of Mary Ambree the English Woman-Legionary. Pp. 384(last colophon)+[4](advertisements); gilt lettered red cloth, top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised, the spine cloth faded and slightly soiled; the free endpapers faintly offset, scattered foxing; John Murray, London, 1931. First edition. *Presentation copy, with the editor's armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown; the bookplate inscribed in ink 'To Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Parkes with the author's love, P. C. Wren'.