VIETNAM - Victor BATOR (1891-1967). Vietnam, New York, 1965, 8vo, morocco. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden. With 6 other books related, one inscribed by Eden, the others ANNOTATED by him. (7)

VIETNAM - Victor BATOR (1891-1967).  Vietnam. A Diplomatic Tragedy. The Origins of The U.S. Involvement. New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1965. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, frontispiece map, illustrations (the text very lightly browned at margins throughout). Contemporary brown half morocco gilt and marbled boards by [?]Zipélius Brillouin [?bound for Anthony Eden], top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original colour printed wrappers bound in (spine and strip at head of upper cover faded). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Anthony Eden, who by statesmanship and diplomacy brought about an interlude of peace in Southeast Asia and, in his speech of 23 June 1954, marked out a course which, if followed, might have led to permanent balance and peace, Victor Bator, October 19, 1965." With Anthony Eden's Towards Peace in Indo-China (London, "Chatham House Essays," 1966, 8vo, wrappers, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "C[larissa] from A, with devotion, Aug. 1st 1966"; and 5 other books of related interest, all ANNOTATED by Anthony Eden, namely Jean Lacoutre & Philippe Devillers' La Fin d'une Guerre. Indochine 1954 (Paris, 1960, large 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, with sparse annotation and highlighting in pencil by Anthony Eden, with many page numbers listed on the final page, and several small autograph notes [?in Eden's hand] loosely-inserted), Paul Ély's Mémoires. L 'Indochine dans la Tourmente (Paris, 1964, 8vo, folding map at the end, original pictorial wrappers, with sparse annotation and highlighting in pencil), Jean Lacouture's Le Vietnam entre Deux Paix (Paris, 1965, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, with sparse pencil annotation, but quite extensive to final blank, and highlighting), another copy of Victor Bator's Vietnam. A Diplomatic Tragedy (New York: Oceana Publications, 1965, 8vo, original cloth, with 4-pages of Eden's copious annotation on blank leaves at the end, possibly in preparation for a speech, and with annotation (for example, on p.30: "Americans did not tell us this; nor, I think, the French") and highlighting throughout) and Bernard B. FALL's The Two Viet-Nams ... Revised Edition (New York, 1965, 8vo, original cloth, with Eden's occasional annotation and passages highlighted throughout, and a half-page of annotation headed "American Appeasement" to the final blank leaf at the end). (7)