With the Allied Armies in Italy, Edward Seago, Collins, 1945, First Edition, First Impression This book covers the progress of the Allied Armies in the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. With a foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander and over a hundred reproductions of pen and ink drawings, eight in full colour and many in two colours drawn by the author as he travels with the Allied Forces, this is a wonderful book. There is a neat personal dedication and date to the reverse of the front end paper. The book is in near fine condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. There is a crease mark to the top corner of the front board. The end papers and pages are free from marks, tears and inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in very good condition with loss to all the corners, two tears and nibbling to the top edge of the front cover, marks to the front cover, loss to the front edge of the spine, loss to the top and bottom edges of the spine, nibbling, loss and a tear to the top edge of the back cover and nibbling to the bottom edge of the spine. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.