The Battle of the Plate
CAMPBELL, Commander A.B.
With a Foreword by Lord Chatfield.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Herbert Jenkins, [1940]
Stock code: 44546
Price: £46.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps, title and following leaves lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed at edges and lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel.
One of the earliest published accounts of the action: also covers the release of the Spee prisoners by COSSACK from ALTMARK. Includes ROH and awards. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Law 0104; inexplicably, not recorded by Enser.