Evans of the Broke
POUND, Reginald
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Oxford University Press, 1963
Stock code: 9158
Price: £26.00
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 28 plates on 24; cloth, gilt back, backstip lightly age-mottled else a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Standard, and painstaking, life of one of the most famous naval officers of his generation. Second in command to Scott of the Antarctic, legendary destroyer skipper in the Great War, the King's emissary to Norway and 'Evans of the Blitz' during WWII. Uncommon in this condition.