The Wreck of the Mary Deare
by INNES, HAMMOND
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1956. First Edition - American. Hammond Innes’s personal copy with his bookplate which is hand-autographed by him. Faint hint of dust soiling to the cloth at the spine, else a fine fresh copy in a dust jacket with a slight trace of sunning at spine. The author’s most famous work and the basis of the acclaimed film, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, and Michael Redgrave. One of the great nautical novels of all-time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20329E
- Title
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare
- Author
- INNES, HAMMOND
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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