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From the Historical Series. Circa 1950. BOOK in red cloth hardcovers, bumping & wear to corners & spine ends, tilt to spine. PAGES slightly tanned to edges but clean, flat & tight, grubby mark to right edge of title page but does not interfere with book contents, some tanning & spotting to edges of page block. DJ poor, split & worn to corners, edges & spine ends, general wear to edges, tanning to paler parts of cover, well used appearance. Book Extract; Shading his eyes against the glare of the sun, Davidgazed across the water at the galleon which was alreadydrifting rapidly to leeward. He realized that manyhours would elapse before she was in fighting trimagain and dismissed her from his mind as he walkedacross the deck to look at the galley, which was rapidlyapproaching his starboard side, obviously intendingto ram.Again the Recovery veered round under the pressureof her rudder, so that she presented her starboard gunsto the enemy. Once more came that billow of smokeand the ship rocked with the recoil, but there came nosound of rending timbers for the guns were chargedwith grape. Neither did they harm the galley slaves,still sweating at their sweeps under the lash of the slave-masters, for the whole broadside was concentrated oneach end of the galley where the soldiers were massedtogether.Wide lanes were carved through the ranks of thesemen as the hail of grape tore across the decks. Halfa dozen guns were fired in reply, a shot from whichsheered away a large section of the Recovery's starboardbulwark and filled the air with whistling splinters. Asthe two vessels drew apart Samkin put an arrow tostring and stood waiting until the ship should steadyherself, then came the deep twang of his bowstringand the man at the tiller of the galley threw his armswide, an English cloth-yard shaft transfixing his throat.On went the Recovery as cheer after cheer was shoutedby her men for the youthful figure on her poop., 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Acceptable. Illustr: F A Philpotts Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Leslie Morley : Venture To The Main. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, livres d'occasion, collectables, out of print books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |