Language: English
Published by Longmans, Green and Co, London, UK, 1926
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This is a presentation copy of the work from the author to the artist who drew to battle plans, inscribed 'To the owner of the initials 'ERH' which appear on the admiralty drawings in this book, from the author, Oct.21. 1926'. Also includes a letter from the author to the same illustrator. Includes 28*battle plans and 15*maps and 26*appendices. xx, 459pp. Bound in the original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to extremities. There is a cut 7 cm deep to the surface of the lower spine cloth. Boards protected by removable clear plastic cover. Colour illustration (of the author as a child painted by his grandfather Sir John Millais) pasted onto the front pastedown. Related newspaper cutting to the second free endpaper. Notes relating to the author on the title page. Inscribed by Author(s).