The Kelly
( HMS KELLY ) POOLMAN, Kenneth
Foreword by Admiral The Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
Published: Kimber, [1954]
Stock code: 18026
Price: £420.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 18 plates on 16, full-page map in the text and endpaper maps, title lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with anchor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Standard operational account of the famous destroyer commanded by Mountbatten, from its early days in the North Sea to its sinking off Crete. She was the basis of HMS TORRIN, her fictional counterpart in David Lean's iconic feature film 'In Which We Serve' (1942) starring Noel Coward and John Mills. Enser, p.126; Law, 1064.