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William Kimber, London, 1982., 1982. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First printing. 8vo, hardcover, dustjacket. NF/NF. No names, not clipped, no tears. Only slightest wear to extremities, few wrinkles to dj near head of spine. Very nice copy of this scarce book.
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- Title Quarterdeck Ladder
- Author STYLES, Showell
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Distribution Services, London
- Date 1982
- ISBN 9780718300296
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The Quarterdeck Ladder.
by Styles, Showell.
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THE QUARTERDECK LADDER.
by Styles, Showell.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780718300296
- ISBN 10
- 0718300297
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London: William Kimber, 1982. 173 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "Jeremiah Coghlan's meteoric rise from ship's boy to Post Captain in the Royal Navy of Nelson's time is matter of historical fact. So is the succession of sea-fights by which he achieved his ambition. But Navy records naturally have nothing to say about the private life of this obscure and forgotten hero, and here the author has interwoven fiction with fact to produce a stirring tale in which troubled romance ashore contrasts with desperate action afloat. Commander Showell Styles served in Mediterranean waters during most of World War 2 and sailing small craft is one of his hobbies - circumstances which enable him to reconstruct with authenticity the sea-fights and ship-handling of the Napoleonic Wars. In his books he invariably writes about men who actually lived and naval engagements that actually took place." Tiny soiling mark on title page, faint cigarette odour. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling. . First…
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