"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cassell and Company, 1936. [Naval stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii [2] 245 [1]. With numerous illustrations by Charles Grave. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6 to front flap. Light internal toning, faint spotting/marking throughout. Some offsetting to endpapers. Light mottling to cloth extremities. Jacket moderately toned, some mild tearing to extremities. Very good. An anthology of naval stories, with a foreword by Winston Churchill in praise of the Merchant Navy. Item #70634
Price: £38.00
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