GOOD CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage hardback edition entitled “Mr.
Midshipman Easy,” by Captain
(Frederick) Marryat (1792-1848), illustrated with 8 COLOUR plates,
including a frontispiece, numerous other illustrations by Leonard Huskinson and
COLOUR illustrated endpapers.
It was published
by The Heirloom Library, of London, in 1954 first printing in the The Heirloom
Library series of illustrated books for children.
This novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself
served with distinction in the Royal Navy.
Mr Midshipman Easy
is one of the most popular of Captain Frederick Marryat’s sixteen novels. Many of his stories, including Mr Midshipman
Easy, were sea yarns. Midshipman,
however, is the story of Jack Easy, who has learnt from his father (a wealthy
old man) that all men are created equal and should be treated as such.
The novel deals
with the difficulty of such a belief system within the inevitable and crucial
hierarchy of a sailing vessel. The ship is crewed by a cast of humorous and
interesting characters. Mr Pottyfar is a lieutenant who manages to kill himself
using his own supposed ‘universal medicine’ while other fellows of interest
include the truculent chaplain, Biggs, and Jack’s
The book measures 8.3
inches x 6 inches and has 256 pages + colour plates.
The book is in
good, neat condition for its age, with wear/scuffs/bumps and is a little
grubby/faded to the original decorative hardback cover, with a little foxing/staining
near the covers/rims. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or
pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing
pages. There is no dust-jacket.
A wonderfully
illustrated vintage edition.
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book – please wait for a combined invoice.
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