Lot 5168

Description

Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin 1941-1946, by W.Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, 1st edition 1975, hardcover with dust jacket (18x24cm), 596pp, front fly page with handwritten inscription, 'To Hugh Birch with vivid remembrance of your skilful evasion of enemy aircraft; at times 100 feet altitude! and our safe arrival at Malta. (described in this book) and my gratitude to you & the crew you commanded of the Sunderland.' signed W.Averell Harriman, Washington DC., Aug. 31,1976. Some tape marks on fly pages and some foxing, otherwise very fine and very scarce inscribed 1st edition relating to a wartime incident.

Together with copy of a letter written on August 6, 1986 by Hugh Birch to Mrs Harriman in Virginia, USA making her aware of the flying incident involving her husband and the inscription he placed in the book as per the above, and also an expression of sympathy on the death of her husband.