Published by Batchworth Press London 1955, 1955
First Edition
Condition: USED_GOOD. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Writing inside. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. (napoleonic wars, naval history, military history).
Published by The Batchworth Pres, London, 1955., 1955
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover (lacking dust wrapper), xvi/200pp, b&w illustrations. Boards worn at edges, free corners of same bumped, spine cocked, pages a bit browned; a fair copy. Gardner's autobiography of life in the British Navy during the late 1700s and early 1800s. He saw plenty of action and served on some famous ships, including the Victory, but what interested him most were his mess-mates and their eccentricities. The pranks, scams and amusements that broke up the claustrophobic life of a warship's crew form a large part of his narrative.
Published by The Batchworth Press, 1955
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Some foxing to extreme ends and to text block edges but otherwise clean and sound. Wrapper is quite worn and has been repaired along joints. Size: Octavo. Category: Ships & the Sea; Biography & Autobiography.