Published by Gibbs and Sons, Canterbury., 1946
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, STAFF, United Kingdom
First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 148 pages with photo plates and illustrations. two-tone cloth and paper boards. some handling but boards and contents still good+ to very good. *The accounts of a sojourn in the Navy from 1942 to '45 serving aboard HMS "Nile" and "Scarab" in the Med and Greece, with mention of the Civil War there. Privately Printed account of reminiscences. 22 x 15 cm.
Published by Published by the Author, Canterbury, Kent circa . Kent circa 1947., 1947
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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First Edition
US$ 23.01
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Add to basketFirst edition hard back binding in publisher's original green marble-effect paper covers with green cloth spine, blue title and author lettering to the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 148 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Corners very slightly turned in, a little age darkening to the closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN).
Published by Canterbury
Seller: The Devonport Vintage Bookshop, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
First Edition Signed
Paper Boards, Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 148pp ills.[b/w], green paper boards w.green cloth spine, mod. rubbed and sl.soiled, sl.wear to extrems., author's dated inscr.[1948] to ffep but not signed, prelims. and edges sl. soiled. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by [Privately Printed], [1947], 1947
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 61.33
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Add to basket8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, endpapers lightly browned; marbled boards ruled and lettered in blue, green cloth back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author served on RHN ADRIAS in the South Atlantic and Mediteranean, then SCARAB for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. From 1943-44 he was based at NILE (Alexandria) and finally Piraeus during the liberation and civil war. VERY SCARCE.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Nd. c. 1946? A good copy. Signed by the author above his portrait frontispiece. Presentation copy from the author's brother and signed by him also. 148pp. Illustrated. described as "an account of a few very ordinary adventures of a very ordinary 'Temporary Surgeon Lieut.' in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and being factual rather than imaginative". Covers the author's naval service from 1942 to 1945.