FIRST EDITION – The Mary Deare By Hammond Innes

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They dismissed the Mary Deare as “a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap”. For forty years, this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered, bruised, and empty, she emerged from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel — and into the newspaper headlines. Here was a ship of mystery and tragedy…in one of the greatest sea stories of all time

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Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to spine. No dust jacket. Spine and top of back and front boards are sun bleached. Some tanning to edges, but book is otherwise a good, tight copy. Small numeric (reference?) inscription in pencil on inside back page. Maps on back and front end papers. Hardcover. Published by Collins 1956. Weight 381g

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Weight 0.381 kg