Eagle Fleet
( EAGLE FLEET ) LUCAS, W.E.
The Story of a Tanker Fleet in Peace and War. [Foreword by Sir George Legh-Jones].
COMPANY PRESENTATION COPY WITH EPHEMERA
Published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1955]
Stock code: 14867
Price: £65.00
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, and numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome photographs and maps throughout; original black holland, upper board with company crest blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased (without material loss) at edges.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE COMPANY WITH ITS NAMED BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. With the separately printed leaf 'Amendments to the Appendices' loosely inserted. Sold with a quantity of relevant company and commercial ephemera, and with a few notes and cuttings loosely inserted. A splendid fleet history, with due space accorded to 'San Demetrio' and 'Ohio' from WWII. Includes ROH, detailed fleet profile and lists of officers. Scarce in this condition.