Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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$116.31 + 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$122.43 + 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
David W. Bone. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto and WIndus, London, 1949.
Price: US$193.85 + 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$193.85 + 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.
Bone, David. Merchantman Rearmed. Chatto & Windus, London, 1949.
Price: US$226.16 + 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