captain eric wheler bush editor (2 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xxxviii, 435 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Great Britain. Army Anthologies. Soldiers Quotations. Soldiers Poetry. Soldiers Prose literature. 3 Kg.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smartly bound first edition of this anthology of poetry and prose on the sea and marine life. First edition. An anthology on the sea, storms and shipwrecks, sweethearts and wives, home from sea, sea chanties, the old navy, English admirals, battles and wars, and much more. With collections of quotations, poems, and prose extracts. Edited by Captain Eric Wheler Bush, a British member of the Royal Navy. Bound by R. W. & H. B. Bound in full blue crushed morocco with gilt. Externally, very smart with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot to the fore edge. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Bound by R. W. & H. B. Near Fine. book.