The Mary Deare

First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, spine very slightly faded, not price clipped (12s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 256pp, map endpapers. The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale off the reefs around the Channel Islands. Only one man, half mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking. But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved. As Hammond Innes' (1913-98) classic tale moves from desperate struggles on the sea to a nail biting courtroom controversy, the murky truth about the last voyage of the Mary Deare finally comes to light. Made into a film starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston.