Battleship Bismarck
MULLENHEIM-RECHBERG, Burkard von
Translated [from the German] by Jack Sweetman.
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
Published: Bodley Head, [1981]
Stock code: 13335
Price: £18.00
8vo., First UK Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous photographs and charts in the text, and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip.
Fascinating and long-awaited account by the senior survivor, who served in her as Fourth Gunnery Officer throughout her career. Some very useful photographs. Striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork specially commissioned from Thomas G Webb. First edition in English; published in the US in the preceding year. Enser, pp.23, 110; Law, 1685.