GAUNT WOMAN
by GILLIGAN, EDMUND
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Durham, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1943 tp. First Edition?. Hardcover. 6x8". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET. Tasteful bookplate & Name ep "Sara Franklin Jan 12, 1943"... ; Dark red spine & cover titles on tan cloth hard covers.. ; FIRE AT SEA DJ COVER ART; 307pg pages; Gaunt Woman is the story of the adventures of a Gloucester skipper on the trail of a wolf-pack of Nazi U-boats and their mother ship the Gaunt Woman. It is Edmund Gilligan's forth novel. Mr. Gilligan writes from first-hand knowledge of the sea, Gloucester fishing schooners and U-boats. He was in the Navy in the First World War on a sub-chaser working with Canadian mine sweepers in Newfoundland waters, and during the last year Mr. Gilligan has made several trips on Gloucester fishing boats to the Grand Banks, has seen U-boats and the result of their depredations on the fishing fleet. Part of the Gaunt Woman was written on one of these voyages. .
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- Bookseller
- Wonderful Books by Mail (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125557
- Title
- GAUNT WOMAN
- Author
- GILLIGAN, EDMUND
- Illustrator
- Author onboard back cover dj PHOTO
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition?
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1943 tp
- Keywords
- Fiction, Fiction, Sea FARING, Sailboat, Ship, WW2, WWII, Atlantic Ocean
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