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Merchantman Rearmed. (Special Edition).
Book Description
Limited to 150 copies. Number 45 signed by the author. Signed again by the author on the half title, also by John H. Bone, with presentation to John Craig Annan (the Glasgow art dealer), with a message. Signed by Muirhead Bone beneath the frontispiece portrait (also signed within the image). Photographic reproduction of a cartoon of Annan's father loosely inserted.
Dealer Notes
A 'personal record of experiences in the War' (WWII) of Captain Sir David W. Bone, CBE.
Author
Bone, David W.
Date
1949.
Binding
Hard cover. Quarter dark blue morocco. Light blue cloth covered boards. Top edge of pages gilt.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus, London.
Illustrator
Frontispiece portrait of Sir David Bone, with tissue guard, and 15 plates, by Muirhead Bone. 16 headpieces and one tailpiece.
Condition
Slight fading to the spine, less to the lower board. Slight foxing to lower end papers and to page edges, which are untrimmed. Occasional foxing to the text block. Binding has a slight 'slant'.
Pages
pp.xx+332. 25cm.
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