Internally there is a previous ownership name to the front pastedown and a little spotting mainly to the very edge of the text block and the first few and last few pages. Clean boards with firm, sharp corners and a touch of fading to the titles. In original unclipped dust jacket priced at 12/6 net. 13.7 x 20.4 cm blue cloth with white titles to the spine 416pp with double page map frontispiece. Made into a film in 1953, starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliott.įirst Edition, First Impression.
It was one of the first novels to depict life aboard the vital, but unglamorous, 'small ships' of World War II, ships for which the sea was as much a threat as the Germans. Based on his own wartime service, it followed the young naval officer Keith Lockhart through a series of postings in corvettes and frigates. Monsarrat's (1910-79), first post war novel, widely regarded as his finest work. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and long closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, large creased tear to back jacket and 3" loss along spine hinge, corners rubbed with small loss, some spotting to prelims, page block and endpapers, not price clipped (12/6), no inscriptions, otherwise internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable and obviously well read copy for its age.
First published in August 1951, this is an twelfth edition of 1953 (a tribute to the book's popularity).
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