The Saga of San Demetrio by Tennyson Jesse, F - 1942

Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Book. Good. Hardcover. A clean tight copy, no dust jacket. First American Edition..

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London: HMSO, 1943. Second Printing. fair. 20 cm, 64, wraps, diagrams, covers quite worn, front cover weakly attached, ink note and erasure residue on half-title. An extraordinary tale of the Battle of the Atlantic, the true story of an 8000-ton derelict tanker that refused to blow up after being abandoned and which found its crew again, who re-boarded and salvaged her.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. NF, lovely copy of sailor's rescuing a torpedoed merchant ship, 1st edn, small 8vo, spotty eps, illustrated.

Unknown, 2007. Paperback. New. 96 pages. 9.00x5.90x0.70 inches.

His Majesty's Stationery Office, London - first edition 1942 softcover booklet, 7½" x 5" Book in VERY GOOD condition Cross-section of M.V, 'San Demetrio' printed inside rear cover, plus 5 b&w photographs. This small booklet records for the first time the amazing story of the oil tanker 'San Demetrio' based on her officers' eye-witness accounts. Shelled and set on fire by an enemy battleship, she was abandoned by her crew; a handful of her men, adrift in a life-boats, found her again, boarded her, put out the fires, got her engines working again, and took her across the Atlantic to England. Previous owner's name to half-title page.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.5 inches. [10], 84, [2] pages. Endpaper discolored. Cover has some wear and soiling. Contains chapters on The Ship; The Crew; The Convoy is Attacked; San Demetrio Abandoned; San Demetrio Regained; A Derelict Made Shipshape; "By Guess and By God''; ''The Living Shall Praise Thee''; Landfall; Good Tidings; and Salvage. Contains Diagram of M.V. San Demetrio on page 2. Also contains Diagrams of M.V. San Demetrio, Signal of Distress, Under her own Power, Upper Bridge Deck, and Chief Engineer's Cabin between pages 29 and 30. Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (born Wynifried [also recorded as Winifred] Margaret Jesse, 1 March 1888 - 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson). Her most notable books include A Pin To See the Peepshow, a fictional treatment of the case of Edith… Read More

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943 Book. Illus. by B & W Photos, Diagram. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition Stated. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original grey cloth over boards with dark green lettering and decoration. Price-clipped orange dustjacket has navy illustration of sword coming out of water, with white lettering. Dustjacket is handsoiled, edgeworn and has small tears at corners. Spine darkened. Some discoloration of endpapers. This is the true story of a tanker ship loaded with gasoline which was part of a 39-ship convoy in 1940 headed to Great Britain from Halifax. A German battleship attacked them, sinking four ships and badly damaging the San Demetrio. The crew escaped in a lifeboat, but sixteen of them returned to the ship two days later and managed to get it running. They sailed without charts or instruments to safety in Ireland. Scarce. 84 pp..