Landfall at Sunset. The Life of a Contented Sailor
( Freda BONE, illus. ) BONE, Sir David William
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Duckworth, [1955]
Stock code: 49490
Price: £40.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; dark navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly age-marked dustwrapper.
Sold with a small quantity of relevant contemporary cuttings. Wrapper illustration by Freda Bone. David Bone's classic autobiography covers almost half a century at sea, including both world wars. He served as Commodore Master of Anchor Line until his retirement in 1946. A fitting complement to his wartime memoir 'Merchantman Rearmed' (1949). Law 1375.