SAILOR AT SEA by HICKLING Vice-Admiral Harold

E-128: William Kimber and Co. Ltd.. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by William Kimber and Company, London, UK. 1965. 224 pgs. Endpaper Maps. Illustrated with black and white plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Admiral Hickling began his career in the Royal Navy when he became a cadet at Osborne in 1905. In 1913 he was a sub lieutenant in the cruiser Glasgow on the South American Station. On the 1st November 1914, the Good Hope, wearing the flag of Admiral Cradock, supported by Glasgow and Monmouth, engaged the German East Asiatic Squadron commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee. An hour later, the flagship and Monmouth had gone down with all hands, Glasgow had only narrowly escaped the same fate. The… Read More

A H & A W Reed, 1965. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a slight forward lean, foxing to the edges and lightly to the pre-lims, bookplate of a previous owner to the verso of the front free endpaper, details of another owner on the half-title page, the binding remains tight, the dust wrapper is lightly chipped and rubbed, maps on endpapers, b&w plates, 224pp.

William Kimber, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. H/B 224 pages, condition is very good