Alexander Kent – Enemy In Sight! – SIGNED First Edition 1970
£75.00
A first edition, first printing of Enemy in Sight! by Alexander Kent, published by Hutchinson, London in 1970. A near fine book inscribed and SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page, a former owner’s signature in blue ink to the front free end paper, boards bound in publisher’s steel grey cloth with rubbing to the spine tips and corners, spotting to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with rubbing to extremities and light chipping to the spine tips.
Enemy in Sight! is an early Richard Bolitho naval adventure by Alexander Kent, the pseudonym of Douglas Reeman. Set in 1794 during the wars with Revolutionary France, it follows Captain Bolitho aboard HMS Hyperion, a 74-gun ship of the line, as he faces danger in the Atlantic and West Indies. Published by Hutchinson in 1970, it helped establish Kent as a successor to C. S. Forester.
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A first edition, first printing of Enemy in Sight! by Alexander Kent, published by Hutchinson, London in 1970. A near fine book inscribed and SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page, a former owner’s signature in blue ink to the front free end paper, boards bound in publisher’s steel grey cloth with rubbing to the spine tips and corners, spotting to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with rubbing to extremities and light chipping to the spine tips.
Enemy in Sight! is an early Richard Bolitho naval adventure by Alexander Kent, the pseudonym of Douglas Reeman. Set in 1794 during the wars with Revolutionary France, it follows Captain Bolitho aboard HMS Hyperion, a 74-gun ship of the line, as he faces danger in the Atlantic and West Indies. Published by Hutchinson in 1970, it helped establish Kent as a successor to C. S. Forester.
