The Petrified Mariner by Baker, Denys Val

London: William Kimber. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket.. 1972. First UK Edition. Blue Cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Dust jacket now in clear plastic BRODART protector. Original price Sterling to front endflap. 229pp.

William Kimber London 1972 1st ed. 229pp Nautical autobiography. Very good with foxing to page edges, and endpapers, light wear, in jacket with wear, creasing, closed tear top edge rear panel with creasing. See photos ClphE

London: William Kimber. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0718304721 . Blue boards with bright silver-gilt titling to the spine. Boards have a very little edge 'fading', hardly noticable, o/w VG, clean and crisp cornered. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Wrapper illustration by Donald Swan. Some general slight shelfwear and the rear dustjacket cover, which is plain grey/silver is speckled all over in white - from ? Rubbing or adhereing to another surface ? But it looks uniformly 'pretty/patterned', and is quite attractive! . Apart form this, overall the wrapper is VG. 229 pp. With three b/w maps. The page fore-edges have some foxing spots/browning, but none internally. The 'Petrified Mariner' of the title is the author himself, who bought "an old motor fishing vessel, an Ex-Admiralty cutter 'Sanu', and set off on a series of increasingly ambitious (and adventurous) cruises - to Europe - France,… Read More