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Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. Sixth Impression. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with light foxing, heavy to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Notable mottling to boards.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Lodestar Books, 2018. Paperback. New. 330 pages. 8.50x6.14x1.06 inches.

Granada, 1978. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:0583128084

Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. 4th Impression. 278 pages. Yellow dust jacket with lettering over blue cloth. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Front endpaper is missing. Previous owner's inscriptions to half title page. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket with heavy edge wear, large tears and chipping, causing loss around edges and spine. Heavy tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

Paperback / softback. New. First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates—with humanity, humour and the authority of experience—lower-deck life in the British navy, from basic training to service on a destroyer protecting a convoy to Arctic Russia, a mission from which many did not return.

UsedGood. Sixth impression, 1946 green cloth. Text block firm and clean, binding tight, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. DJ is torn along front hinge with chipping and tanning. Mild tanning to pages, foxing to text block edges. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

London, Gollancz, 1948, 8° (cm. 19 x 13) legatura in piena pelle, pp. 278 con una tavola illustrata nel testo. Ordinari segni del tempo.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. One illustration, small 8vo, pp 278, very age-toned, a few creased corners, a small signature on the front endpaper, green cloth, dull and slightly worn, spine a little spotted, binding leaning slightly. [First edition, first impression of what is generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea in the Second World War. A fictionalised but accurate account, based on the author's experiences in a destroyer on the Murmansk run.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Hardcover. Fair. DUST JACKET DAMAGED AND YELLOWING. Offered by the UK charity Langdon: supporting young men and women with disabilities.

Panther, 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Gollancz,, [1944]. 8vo., Fourth Impression; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Published two months after the first edition. Fictionalised but accurate account of the author's five months in a destroyer on the Murmansk run. Generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea; certainly a minor classic of WWII. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Law, 1062.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fiine/No Jacket. 7 1/2" X 5. Preface by author dated 1943 at Delph. Green cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on spine only. " O.S. -1*" on p.9. Day-to-day life and death on the HRH destroyer, Marsden. Book is square and tight with age toning. An early printing. fon on front pastedown. Bookseller's Inventory # 222015.

Gollancz,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in navy full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Fictionalised but accurate account of the author's five months in a destroyer on the Murmansk run. Generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea; certainly a minor classic of WWII. A LOVELY COPY OF THE SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION. Law, 1062.