Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 166 pages. (SL#73).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Norman Mansbridge (illustrator). H/B 166 pages condition is very good, the DJ has been price clipped.
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1947., 1947
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
12mo (19x12.5cm), hardback, 166pp. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (price clipped, sunned spine and edges, water-stained at upper spine & upper left front and upper right rear, foxed, grubby, several small tears, tape repairs on the inside). General wear, bumped, rubbed at lower edges, foxed, age-toning, offsets to free endpapers, owner's name at free front endpaper. With b&w illustrations. Pictures available on request. 'The hero of Comdr. Bates' new book is a London River tug-boat. Her adventures in peace and war form the stories, some tragic and some humorous, but always full of the spirit of that waterway which is half river and half sea.'.