The Mary Deare
by INNES, HAMMOND
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Hammond Innes to his wife, fellow author and actress, Dorothy Mary Lange. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the dedication page: “My dear, Here at last is your own book with my grateful acknowledgment to your ownership of it and my love, Ralph. 9th July 1956.” With Hammond Innes’s bookplate. Near fine copy with a trace of fading to the cloth along the top edge and very minor rubbing to the gilt-stamping at the spine in a near fine dust jacket with some very faint spotting and a hint of darkening to the spine. The author’s most famous work and the basis of the acclaimed film, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, screenplay by Eric Ambler, directed by Michael Anderson, and starring Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Richard Harris, Virginia McKenna, Emlyn Williams, and Alexander Knox.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20387E
- Title
- The Mary Deare
- Author
- INNES, HAMMOND
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
We are long-term members of the Antiquarian Bookseller's Association of America. We specialize in American & English Literature, Mystery & Detective Fiction, Rare Cinema Material, Autograph & Signed Material, and an Eclectic Offering of Literature & Ephemera.
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Inscribed
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
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- First Edition
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