U-Boat 977
SCHAEFFER, Heinz
Preface by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of Cork and Orrery. Foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Kimber, [1952]
Stock code: 48214
Price: £80.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 8 plates, front endpaper plan and rear endpaper map; pale blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail.
With personal bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Vividly written first-hand account by the captain who took his boat to Argentina after the Surrender and created the world-wide rumour that he had carried Hitler with him. THE FIRST EDITION IS NOW SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.430; Law, 1728.