Buy this book on-line INNES**, HAMMOND: : The Mary DeareLONDON.COLLINS,1956. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.Neat,handwritten blue ink familial gift presentation inscrptn+ contempraneous date to reverse of front free endpaper,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated front+spine of dw/dj with capitalised,white-lettered author name and other white-lettered title to front panel,spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name,title and publisher's name to foot of same;rear panel with a slightly grubbed white background with publisher's advert for author's 3 other titles.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - pair of small closed tears at head and rear top edges,a small closed tear at foot of spine's rear facing gutters fold/crease and a pinprick to middle of spine,three corners with miniscule chipping.Top edges lightly dust-soiled and minimally discoloured and with faint,minimal foxing,fore-edges also with sporadic light foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with gilt lettered spine/backstrip and regional b/w map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,11-256pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 comprising 4,3 and 1 chapters; plus [unpaginated] story synopsis to half-title page, a title page,a dedication with blank reverse,a Conrtents list/table and individual Pts separator pages.
'The Mary Deare' is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes,which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM.The success of the book - and the 1959 film based on it,enabled Innes to buy his own 42 ft ocean racer,which he named Mary Deare.
The book tells the story of a very old ship described as "a deathtrap of rattling rivets", which is found adrift at sea by salvager John Sands. He boards it hoping to claim it for salvage,but finds the first officer,Gideon Patch,still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own.Patch convinces Sands to help him beach the ship,even though it will void his salvage claim.When they return to London,Patch is brought before a board of inquiry to determine what happened.It soon becomes apparent that the shipowners were planning to wreck the Mary Deare all along and have Patch as the fall guy.
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