Author: H. E. Bates
Title: The Cruise of the Breadwinner
Description: London, Michael Joseph, 1946. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this war oriented novella by H. E. Bates. The first edition of this astounding novella by H. E. Bates, a tale of the sea dealing with the impact of war's heroics and the futility of war as a boy goes on a short, bloody voyage off the coast of England. An exciting and dramatic story filled with humour and humanity of the common man. With unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in silver to spine. Externally lovely with minor shelfwear and slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is unclipped and smart with slight shelfwear and edge wear, minor closed tears which have been tape repaired internally to wraps, not affecting the externals. Minor loss to head of spine to wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

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