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BONE, David W.. Merchantman rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$5.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages shows minor tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Bone, Sir David. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949,, 1949.
Price: US$6.41 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xx,332pp, illustrated, owner's bookplate on endpaper, edges browned and a slight tobacco odour, blue cloth, spine slightly cocked, Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$8.02 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1949. No Edition Remarks. 331 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Bone, David W.. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chatto & Windus 1949 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Bone, David W.. Merchantman Rearmed. CHATTO AND WINDUS, LONDON, 1949.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards: slightly shelf cocked, sun-faded spine, mild wear, rubs, corner bumps, edge wear. Interior: front free end paper clipped, age-tone/tanned pages, some discoloration/light foxing. DATE PUBLISHED: 1949 EDITION: 331
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Bone, Sir David. Merchantman rearmed;. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$11.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Bone, David W. & Muirhead Bone (Illust). Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; 1949 Chatto & Windus. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's 21s price intact to unclipped front flap. Binding just a little shelf cocked in the spine; jacket slightly toned and a little rubbed at edges. Illustrated with b&w drawings. VG/VG
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Bone, Sir David W.. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with Drawings by Sir Muirhead Bone. The book is tight and clean with solid binding. Dustjacket is tape repaired with chips to top of spine, but looks very good in the new Mylar cover that now protects it. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 8vo; 352 pages
Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
David W. Bone. Merchantman rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$14.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1949. No Edition Remarks. 332 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Foxing.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Bone, Sir David. Merchantman Rearmed.. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$15.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Sir David Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$16.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Merchantman Rearmed by Sir David Bone illustrated by Sir Muirhead Bone Published by Chatto & Windus 1949 - 332 Pages - Illustrated / Indexed This is the personal wartime recollections of Sir David Bone, already an experienced Merchant Navy shipmaster her was in his fiftieth year at the outbreak of World War II. This book recounts his hazardous wartime experiences - from unescorted convoys of the North Atlantic - to troop carrying round the Cape - commanding landing ships in the Mediterranean through to conveying Russian prisoners to Odessa. Brilliantly illustrated and a compulsive first hand account of war. Condition: 1949 Chatto & Windus 1st Edition. Acceptable Unclipped Dust Wrapper edge / shelf wear some nicks and chips to the wrapper (see image). Good+ Hardback Book. Previous owners name, address and date of purchase to the front paste down. Some bumipng and rubbing to the extremities of the spine and corners of the board. Binding is solid and the pages are clean and bright.
Seller: Warren Books, Thetford, NORFO, United Kingdom
David Bone. Merchantman rearmed. Chatto and Windus, 1949.
Price: US$17.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1949 Chatto and Windus first ediion hardback, press cuttings about the author enclosed; Good+ lightly aged copy; with fair unclipped dj with some edge tears; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Bone, Sir David. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover The covers are blue, the spine has the title in gilt over black. The endpapers are age yellow, the glue at the spine has made the paper wrinkle, the dust jacket as discolored the first free endpaper; there is a book store label black and gilt: Martin Bookseller 14 main Street Campbeltown. The interior is lightly aged; I have found a small card with and inscription on one side and a name printed on the other side, which will go with the book. The dust jacket has a photo of Bone over blue back ground the title is in off white over black. The corners are bumped and small loss of paper here and there, two chips out of the front edge. 332pp.encluding the index
Seller: Weatherby Books, West Pawlet, VT, U.S.A.
Bone, Sir David. MERCHANTMAN REARMED. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$18.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has a pen name to the front paste down and light foxing to fore edges and prelims. The jacket has chipping to the head and foot of the spine and small closed tears. Not price clipped. A little foxing on the jacket. 332pp
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Bone, Sir David. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight, clean copy with no prior owner markings or bookplates. Paper slightly age-darkening as expected. In a near fine dust jacket with slight wear to extremities and some abrasion along jacket folds. NO chips, no tears, and not price-clipped. Spendid copy! 332 pages, indexed, illustrated with photos.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
David W. Bone, Muirhead Bone (drawings). Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Price-clipped. Very Good book in a Good dust jacket.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
BONE, David.:. Merchantman Rearmed.. London Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$20.52 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Hardback. 8vo 9 x 6 inches. Blue rubbed cloth with gilt titles. Illustrated with drawings by Muirhead Bone. 332 pages including index. Light foxing. Hand-written note to endpaper dated 1949. Good without dustwrapper. ' Merchantman Rearmed is a personal record of experiences in the War and is largely an excercise in recollection.'
Seller: Tom Coleman, Dingwall, ROSS, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good +/Fair. NS, Apparent 1st. 22cm By 15cm. After service at sea in WWI the author was to repeat the experience in 1939/45 as a merchant ship master sailing unescorted through dangerous waters, commanding troopers. landing ships in three Mediterranean landings, returning Soviet ex-Pows to Odessa and sailing almost all the world oceans in that time. A story of merchantmen at war with a difference. 332 pages, 15 full page plates (drawings) and 16 chapter head drawings. Tape repaired pict DJ with tears, chips, edgewear and sections missing spine top, bottom, lower front corner, inner foxed and browned. Hard cover has fade areas at spine top and lower. Whited out name of FFEP, inked date lower corner, with small circled numeral at top near gutter, Foxing to EPs, but not to text block, which is VG.
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
BONE DAVID SIR. MERCHANTMAN REARMED. CHATTO AND WINDUS, LONDON, 1949.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: AN EXCELLENT ACCOUNT OF COMMANDING A MERCHANT SHIP IN WARTIME WITH MUCH ON MARTIME WARFARE . AUTHORS ACCOUNT OF HIS BATTLES IN WORLD WAR 2 SOLID CLEAN AND VERY WELL PRESERVED UNMARKED IN A BRIGHT UNCLIPPED JACKET A REALLY NICE COPY
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Bone, David W.. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket heavily torn, with loss and tape repairs. Some light edgewear, closed edges and endpapers foxed, bookplate to front endpaper, central gutters cracked, tape repair to bottom of page 109, pages clean and bright. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Bone, David W.. MERCHANTMAN REARMED. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 332 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners and spine ends a bit rubbed. Spine sunned. Covers cocked. Illust. w/ b/w plates and drawings. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Bone, Sir David. MERCHANTMAN REARMED. Chatto and Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth, 332 pages; Very Good in a foxed but whole pictorial dust jacket.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Sir David Bone. MERCHANTMAN REARMED. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dustwrapper has sme minimal edge wear but is still fine condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, mylar, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Sir David William Bone MBE (22 June 1874 - 17 May 1959) was a Scottish Commodore and author of nautical fiction. His work includes The Brassbounder about a brassbounder, a young apprentice on a British Merchant ship. It was included as a recommendation in Literary Taste: How to Form It, a long essay with recommended readings written by Arnold Bennett. Brassbounder is "a classic of the squaresail era". Bone received the Coronation Medal from King George in 1937 for his long association with the Merchant Navy. He also received CBE in 1943 from King George VI. Bone's career at sea began when he apprenticed at 15 on the City of Florence, "an old-time square-rigger". He also served on windjammers in Australia, with Anchor Line, and on a troop ship during the Boer War. He corresponded and eventually became friends with Joseph Conrad who inspired him to stick with his career as a mariner and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on a ship Bone captained. Ref Y 7
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over navy ground. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xx), 332 pp with 15 plates and 17 monochrome headpieces. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL NAVY (RN)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
BONE, David W.. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine with a short ink notation on the copyright page, in a very good dustwrapper with light edgewear.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.92 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 15 fine plates and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head and tail of backstrip. The author's war service from master of TRANSYLVANIA to command of the troopship CAESAR. Classic illustrations by his brother, well-known artist Muirhead Bone. Enser, p.270; Law, 1376.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Bone, David W. (David William). Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Description: 22 cm, 331, illus., index, DJ worn, soiled, and torn, front DJ flap price clipped. Illustrated by the author's brother, Sir Muirhead Bone. Personal recollections of World War II by a British merchant sailor who served in World War I as well. Includes information on Operation Torch, Operation Husky, Operation Shingle, and many anecdotes of naval action.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
(Royal Navy) Bone, David W.. Merchantmen Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Drawings by Muirhead Bone. 331 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ALS From Author. With an ALS laid in dated September 17, 1940, on letterhead of the T.S.S. Cameronia, thanking a Mr. Pyne for the loan of a pair of binoculars. Blue cloth. Corners bumped. Very Good Drawings by Muirhead Bone. 331 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Bone, Sir David. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus London 1949, 1949.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo 332pp., frontis., illusts., index, Account of author's service in the Merchant Marine in WW2. Illustrated with fine drawings by Muirhead Bone
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Bone, David W.. Merchantmen Rearmed.. Chatto & Windus, London., 1949.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp.xx+332. 25cm. Frontispiece portrait. 15 plates. 17 head & tailpieces. Index. Hard cover in quarter dark blue morocco with cloth boards. The spine lettered in gilt, slightly cocked, and with slight fading. top edge of pages gilt, others untrimmed. 'Of this special edition One hundred and sixty copies have been printed of which one hundred and fifty are for sale'. Signed by the author. Also signed by the author and by John H. Bone on the half-title for John Craig Annan (the Glasgow art dealer). Also signed by the artist, Muirhead Bone, beneath the frontispiece. A good clean copy. ('A personal record of experiences in the War', with a chapter on the years 1918-1939).
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970) (PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bone, David W.. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$80.20 + shipping
Description: Original quarter leather boards, author frontis portrait, b&w illus, top edge gilt, pp xx, 332. Number 23 of a limited edition of 160, signed by the author. Previous owner's bookplate. Small bump front board. Near fine condition. Memoirs of a life in the Navy, mainly WWII. Illustrations by the author's brother, the war artist Muirhead Bone.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Fine binding.] Limited edition, no. 17 of 160 copies signed by David Bone. Near fine. Bound in 1/4 polished navy morocco over beveled blue boards. Top edge gilt. xx, 331 pages) illustrations, portraits.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
David W.Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "In the Merchant Navy we were not quite unprepared for action when war came in 1939, and certainly we were not as ill-briefed for hostilities as in 1914." The recollections of Captain Sir David Bone (1874-1959) who began his seafaring on windjammers in Australia in 1890 and joined Anchor Line in 1899 where he ended up as Commodore retiring in 1946. Edition limited to 160 copies and signed by the author. xx, 332pp gilt top edge, foredge uncut. Illustrated in black and white by Muirhead Bone, the authors brother and official war artist to the Admiralty.
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto and Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$120.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist (?) No. 3 (?) of 160. The cover is a little worn and tanned. The page edges are lightly tanned, and some of the pages are foxed. Faint pen mark on first page. 331 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. xx, 330pp. With drawings by Muirhead Bone. Number 68 of a Signed Limited Edition of 160 copies of which 150 where for sale. Former ownership inscription to ffep. In dark blue quarter morocco with light blue buckram boards. Gilt titles to spine. Teg, others uncut. Light internal spotting, and minor spotting to spine otherwise a near fine copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto and Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Description: A fascinating memoir of Captain and novelist Sir Captain David William Bone. Limited edition of one hundred and sixty copies of which this is number twenty one. Signed by the author to colophon, with original etching of the author, signed in pencil by artist and brother, Muirhead Bone. Illustrated throughout, with fourteen full page monochrome plates, sixteen headpieces and one tailpiece. David William Bone was both a successful sea captain and novelist, and wrote a number of works detailing his time fighting during the First and Second World War. Merchantman Rearmed is based around his experiences during the Second World War, including his participation in Operation Husky, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from Axis power. He retired from active duty in 1946. In a quarter blue morocco binding with blue cloth boards. Externally very smart, with some slight rubbing to the extremities. A few marks to the boards. Spine is sunned. Slight offsetting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with just the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto and WIndus, London, 1949.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist, of this memoir by David Bone, profusely illustrated and in the original publisher's box. The limited edition of this work, published simultaneously as the first edition. This copy being number one hundred and thirty four of one hundred and fifty copies printed for sale. Signed by David Bone to the limitation page and by Muirhead Bone in pencil by frontispiece.A fascinating memoir by Captain and nautical fiction writer David Bone, recollecting his experiences around the Second World War and his participation inOperation Husky, campaign for Sicily to take back the Axis power.Profusely and beautifully illustrated by the author's brother and painter Muirhead Bone with fifteen full plates and various headpieces throughout.With the original publisher's protective box. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally lovel. Signed in ink by the author to limitation page and by the artist, in pencil, to frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with most leaves unopened. Collating complete with frontispiece and fifteen full plates, as well as several headpieces drawn by Muirhead Bone throughout. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Bone, David W. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine heavily sunned, boards have light rubbing and bumping, light shelf wear, closed edges uncut, PP very clean and tidy. Limited edition Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, 1949.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: quarter leather and blue paper beveled board binding in very good condition, though with fade mark on front board; limited edition (no. 51 of 160 copies) with author's autograph; tipped in is an additional author's gift inscription; textblock very good
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$211.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book description: VG in pale blue cloth covered boards with dark blue leather spine; gilt top closed page edges; a couple of tiny spots to vertical closed page edges; small areas of browning to pastedowns + blank endpapers; slight spread to centre of page block (book will lie flat, but still tightly bound). Number 62 of an edition limited to 160 copies. Signed by the author. A very attractive copy.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Bone, David. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Special Limited Edition No. 100 of 160 copies, signed by the author with an original signed etching by Muirhead Bone. Quarter bound blue morocco with light blue buckram bevelled edge boards. PP.331. T.E.G. Illustrated with 15 full page drawings, 16 headpieces and 1 tailpiece by Muirhead Bone. The frontispiece is an original drypoint etching (5.5" x 8.25") of Captain Sir David Bone, C.B.E. by Sir Muirhead Bone, signed in pencil by the artist. Spine slightly faded, otherwise near fine.
Seller: Lott Rare Books, Banstead, SRY, United Kingdom