The Battle of the River Plate
POPE, Dudley
Foreword by Admiral Sir Edward Parry. Preface by Admiral Sir Charles Woodhouse. [Third Impression].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: William Kimber, [1956]
Stock code: 37467
Price: £64.00
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, 20 plates on 14, full-page map in the text, front endpaper map and rear endpaper chart, neat German stamp on half-title; black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper.
Published six months after the first edition. The best and most detailed single-volume account, with many valuable appendices. Parry commanded ACHILLES, Woodhouse commanded AJAX during the action. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.190; Law 0113.