Abandon and Destroy! [#51]
by Macdonnell, J. E
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Horwitz Publications. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1963). First Edition. Softcover. Some creasing to spine. Small ink price on first page. Foxing to page edges. ; First printing. [4], (7)-160, [2 (advertisements)] pages. Page dimensions: 177 x 114mm. Fiction, World War Two, naval fiction. This title is No. 51 in the publisher's single author series for J. E. Macdonnell. This series ran to No. 147. "Pelican was the oldest and slowest destroyer in the flotilla. Rust-streaked and narrow-gutted, lacking modern equipment, she would be no loss to the Royal Australian Navy. Yet her tough, casual captain commanding an apparently ill-disciplined crew proudly scorned the order to Abandon and Destroy" - from blurb on rear cover. [Reference: Flanagan, "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide", pp. 81-84 - "Australia's most prolific writer of naval war novels".] .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21892
- Title
- Abandon and Destroy! [#51]
- Author
- Macdonnell, J. E
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Horwitz Publications
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1963)
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