Nicholas Monsarrat – The Cruel Sea – First UK Edition 1951 – Bound In Blue Leather
£600.00
A first edition, first printing, of The Cruel Sea, published by Cassell in 1951. A very good book without inscriptions – sumptuously bound in full blue leather with five raised bands with gilt titling to the spine. Marbled endpapers
A superb item and a beautiful production.Â
It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war.
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A first edition, first printing, of The Cruel Sea, published by Cassell in 1951. A very good book without inscriptions – sumptuously bound in full blue leather with five raised bands with gilt titling to the spine. Marbled endpapers
A superb item and a beautiful production.Â
It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war.
