The True Blue

This is a first edition of The True Blue: The Life and Adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby 1842-85, written by the British soldier and fellow adventurer Michael Alexander (1920-2004). This is one of the original copies, from the UK print run; most copies on the market now are from the 1958 American printing. This is a rollicking biography of the larger-than-life… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1958 1st American edition of this biography of larger-than-life British traveller and thrill-seeker Col. Fred Burnaby. Tight and VG (with very light soiling at the panels) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping at the lower front tip and very light chipping and… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Short tear on p. 169. Price-clipped dust jacket is fresh and bright with shelf rubbing and slight loss to top of spine. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. 8vo. 211… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K.? Edition. good. 23 cm, 215, illus., color frontis illus., maps, footnotes, bibliography, boards somewhat worn and soiled. Colonel Frederick Burnaby was an English traveller and soldier.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. 1958, 215pp, illus., sun fading to edge of front cover, slight shelfwear to cover, slight soiling to pg edges, slight foxing to eps, plates have a little dampstain damage, contents clean.. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket.