Merchantman Rearmed by Bone, David W - 1949

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.

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, 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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.