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Chatto & Windus, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 331 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; 1949 Chatto & Windus. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's 21s price intact to unclipped front flap. Binding just a little shelf cocked in the spine; jacket slightly toned and a little rubbed at edges. Illustrated with b&w drawings. VG/VG .

Chatto & Windus, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 332 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Foxing.

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated with Drawings by Sir Muirhead Bone. The book is tight and clean with solid binding. Dustjacket is tape repaired with chips to top of spine, but looks very good in the new Mylar cover that now protects it. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 8vo; 352 pages .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First English Edition. Price-clipped. Very Good book in a Good dust jacket.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. 332 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners and spine ends a bit rubbed. Spine sunned. Covers cocked. Illust. w/ b/w plates and drawings. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Muirhead Bone. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine with a short ink notation on the copyright page, in a very good dustwrapper with light edgewear.

Chatto & Windus, 1949-12-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Chatto & Windus 1949 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. Jacket heavily torn, with loss and tape repairs. Some light edgewear, closed edges and endpapers foxed, bookplate to front endpaper, central gutters cracked, tape repair to bottom of page 109, pages clean and bright.. First Edition. Cloth. Good Minus/Poor. Illus. by Bone, Muirhead. 8vo.

Chatto & Windus,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 15 fine plates and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head and tail of backstrip. The author's war service from master of TRANSYLVANIA to command of the troopship CAESAR. Classic illustrations by his brother, well-known artist Muirhead Bone. Enser, p.270; Law, 1376.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First? Edition. First? Printing. fair, poor. Muirhead Bone. 22 cm, 331, illus., index, DJ worn, soiled, and torn, front DJ flap price clipped. Illustrated by the author's brother, Sir Muirhead Bone. Personal recollections of World War II by a British merchant sailor who served in World War I as well. Includes information on Operation Torch, Operation Husky, Operation Shingle, and many anecdotes of naval action.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1949. Original quarter leather boards, author frontis portrait, b&w illus, top edge gilt, pp xx, 332. Number 23 of a limited edition of 160, signed by the author. Previous owner's bookplate. Small bump front board. Near fine condition. Memoirs of a life in the Navy, mainly WWII. Illustrations by the author's brother, the war artist Muirhead Bone. Limited Ed.. Boards.

Chatto & Windus, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. [Fine binding.] Limited edition, no. 17 of 160 copies signed by David Bone. Near fine. Bound in 1/4 polished navy morocco over beveled blue boards. Top edge gilt. xx, 331 pages) illustrations, portraits.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1949 This is a limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist (?) No. 3 (?) of 160. The cover is a little worn and tanned. The page edges are lightly tanned, and some of the pages are foxed. Faint pen mark on first page. 331 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Signed by both Author and Artist (?). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1949. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 8". Muirhead Bone. A fascinating memoir of Captain and novelist Sir Captain David William Bone. Limited edition of one hundred and sixty copies of which this is number twenty one. Signed by the author to colophon, with original etching of the author, signed in pencil by artist and brother, Muirhead Bone. Illustrated throughout, with fourteen full page monochrome plates, sixteen headpieces and one tailpiece. David William Bone was both a successful sea captain and novelist, and wrote a number of works detailing his time fighting during the First and Second World War. Merchantman Rearmed is based around his experiences during the Second World War, including his participation in Operation Husky, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from Axis power. He retired from active duty in 1946. In a quarter blue morocco binding with blue cloth boards. Externally very smart, with some slight rubbing to the extremities. A few… Read More

London: Chatto and WIndus, 1949. Leather. Fine. 10" by 8". Muirhead Bone . A lovely limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist, of this memoir by David Bone, profusely illustrated and in the original publisher's box.. The limited edition of this work, published simultaneously as the first edition. This copy being number one hundred and thirty four of one hundred and fifty copies printed for sale. Signed by David Bone to the limitation page and by Muirhead Bone in pencil by frontispiece. A fascinating memoir by Captain and nautical fiction writer David Bone, recollecting his experiences around the Second World War and his participation in Operation Husky, campaign for Sicily to take back the Axis power. Profusely and beautifully illustrated by the author's brother and painter Muirhead Bone with fifteen full plates and various headpieces throughout.With the original publisher's protective box. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. Spine heavily sunned, boards have light rubbing and bumping, light shelf wear, closed edges uncut, PP very clean and tidy. Limited edition. By Author. 123/160. Half Leather Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bone, Muirhead. 8vo.