A Child Under Sail

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Rupert Hart-Davis

BINDING
Oatmeal cloth boards.

BOOK CONDITION
Good, a little staining to endpapers but printed pages are largely clear.

DUST JACKET
Generally worn, with staining, scuffing and a piece missing at top of spine. Preserved in removable book wrap.

EDITION
First Mariners Library edition, 1949. (first published 1938)

DESCRIPTION
Foreword by the Authors father, Eric Linklater. Frontispiece black and white reproduction of a painting of the Eurydice. Front endpapers have a sail diagram of a full rigged ship. 232 pp.

SYNOPSIS
A vivid account of the authors childhood spent aboard the trading ships of which her father was Master.