Author: CAMPBELL Neil
Title: Shadow and Sun. A Nautical Memoir. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Description: Howard Timmins, Cape Town, for Allen & Unwin,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge tender due to production fault else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed errata slip mounted at half-title. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A wonderful elegy of a long career in the last years of sail, including service aboard the square-rigger Elginshire. This is almost an early issue (possibly in a trial binding). BL gives 1947 but the author's inscription is dated October 1946.

Keywords: naval, maritime, sail, neil campbell, neil campbell, naval, maritime, shadow, sun


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