Bless Ship by Captain Eric Bush (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Author's large pen inscription on the front end paper. Hardback with price clipped dust jacket, size 8vo, 282 pages + adverts. Illustrated with b/w plates. Dust jacket is edge worn & tatty with nicks & tears + rubbing & marking + browning, also loss to the top of the spine. Boards are cocked & show light edge wear & bumping. Some light browning through out otherwise contents good & complete. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (1958), First Printing, Very Good/no dj, octavo, 282pp plus 6pp ads in rear of other A&U recent publications, blue boards hardcover, light cover soil, b&w photo ill's., binding tight, private bookplate & owner's inked name on front endpapers o/w text unmarked, Presented & Signed on front free endpaper: "To dear Lady Bennett from Mollie and Eric Bush, Hunters, Langham Green, Kent, 17.4.58.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 8vo, first edition, second impression, pp,282, illustrated, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket which has some wear and tape repairs, silver titled navy cloth, wear and loss to the rear board corners.

2nd imp. dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 282pp., b/w plates, Author spent his fifteenth birthday at sea in the 1914-18 War, later serving in the Baltic, East Indies, China Station & mediterranean & even commanding a gunboat a thousand miles up the Yangtse. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed to title page by author and to FEP by previous owner, Stanley W P Martin (Euryalus 1941-3). Also includes a signed copy of the author's photograph to Stanley Martin, three photographs of H M S Euryalus, Stanley Martin's 'Reunioin' inviation and a copy of a bookley called 'Crossing the Line' dated Saturday 11th October 1941. A very good, unique copy in a very good, protected DJ which is non-price clipped with light chips to spine. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition dust jacket Very Nice Copy octavo 282pp., b/w plates, Author spent his fifteenth birthday at sea in the 1914-18 War, later serving in the Baltic, East Indies, China Station & Mediterranean & even commanding a gunboat a thousand miles up the Yangtse.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photographic Throughout (illustrator). Second Impression. 282pp with 4pp of publishers' adverts. Navy cloth lettered in silver to the spine. Top edge blue. The dust-wrapper slightly chipped and marked to the back cover. Unclipped. On the front free endpaper "To: NATIONAL SEA TRAINING SCHOOL, SHARPNESS with every good wish from the Author Eric Bush. Langham Green, Kent 3.12.58" An excellent presentation copy Internally a vey clean tight copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO A MEMBER OF THE SHIP'S COMPANY OF HMS EURYALUS, WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Bush's autobiography, of which about one third covers his service in WWII. He was with minesweepers at Dunkirk, took command of the new cruiser EURYALUS in the Mediterranean, assisted in staff work for D-Day, and recommissioned HMS MALAYA for bombardment duties. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. Law 0669.