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The Ship
by Forester, C. S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders, 1943. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated Canadian First Edition.. Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders, 1943. Stated Canadian First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. Stated Canadian First Edition, published June, 1943 in clean original dust jacket. Very clean navy blue cloth boards with gold anchor coat of arms decoration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 281 pages. Clean dust jacket has very slight edge wear, small crease near top of rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The heroic tale of a few hours in the life of a British light cruiser in World War II, and of the men on it. Five light cruisers and twelve destroyerswere escorting a vital British convoy to Malta. One of them was H.M.S. Artemis, a 5,000-ton light cruiser. Malta in 1942 was being threatened by sea and by air and had to have the food, military equipment and medical supplies on board the convoy if the island was to hold out..
Synopsis
A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin is also The Nation ’s deadline poet. His bestsellers range from the memoir About Alice to Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme . He lives in Greenwich Village, which he describes as “a neighborhood where people from the suburbs come on weekends to test their car alarms.”
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029820
- Title
- The Ship
- Author
- Forester, C. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated Canadian First Edition.
- Publisher
- S. J. Reginald Saunders
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- SHIPS, SAILING, C. S. FORESTER, FIRST EDITION, NAUTICAL, MARITIME, WORLD WAR II, MALTA, MILITARY HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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