Author: KENT, ALEXANDER (PSEUDONYM OF DOUGLAS EDWARD REEMAN)
Title: Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
Description: New York: Putnam, 1978. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399206523. Illustrated by Chris Mayger. Dust jacket art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and small chips to the spine ends, and top rear edge of the rear panel. There is some light rubbing to the corners and edges of the dust jacket. " Reeman's debut novel, A Prayer for the Ship, was published in 1958. Reeman is most famous for his series of Napoleonic naval stories, whose central character is Richard Bolitho, and, later, his nephew, Adam Bolitho. Reeman also wrote a series of novels about several generations of the fictional Blackwood family who served in the Royal Marines from the 1850s to the 1970s, and a non-fiction account of his own Second World War experiences, D-Day: A Personal Reminiscence (1984). He used the pseudonym Alexander Kent (the real name of a friend and naval officer who died during the Second World War) for his Bolitho novels and his real name for his other novels and non-fiction. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: 0399206523 Modern Fiction First Edition Alexander Kent Douglass Reeman Ships & Sailing British Naval History
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Title: Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
Description: New York: Putnam, 1978. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399206523. Illustrated by Chris Mayger. Dust jacket art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and small chips to the spine ends, and top rear edge of the rear panel. There is some light rubbing to the corners and edges of the dust jacket. " Reeman's debut novel, A Prayer for the Ship, was published in 1958. Reeman is most famous for his series of Napoleonic naval stories, whose central character is Richard Bolitho, and, later, his nephew, Adam Bolitho. Reeman also wrote a series of novels about several generations of the fictional Blackwood family who served in the Royal Marines from the 1850s to the 1970s, and a non-fiction account of his own Second World War experiences, D-Day: A Personal Reminiscence (1984). He used the pseudonym Alexander Kent (the real name of a friend and naval officer who died during the Second World War) for his Bolitho novels and his real name for his other novels and non-fiction. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: 0399206523 Modern Fiction First Edition Alexander Kent Douglass Reeman Ships & Sailing British Naval History
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42974
- Book number: 42974
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