Buy this book on-line MacLean, Alistair : Bear IslandDoubleday & Company Inc, 1971 ISBN 0002210843
very good condition; LIB2958000279; 273 pages 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 MacLean, Alistair : Bear Island. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. MacLEAN**, ALISTAIR: : BEAR ISLANDLONDON.COLLINS.1971. ISBN 0002210843.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,blue ink,familial gift presentation inscrptn+dated and price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated front panel with black lettering and spine/ backstrip with white lettering,rear panel with author's portrait b/w photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges very lightly toned but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - inscrptn excepted - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original dark blue with pale green speckled cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers - inscrptn and some light off- set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps to both free endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-286pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with story precis, title page,a dedication with b/w Bear Island map to its reverse and 2pp blank at rear.
Book is remarkably preserved and in a near pristine state.Very few copies survive in as good or as fine a state as this - check the internet - majority are VG and less.
Bear Island is situated to the north of North Cape,an area known as the wartime graveyard of the Arctic,where U-boats laid in wait for the Murmansk convoys of 'HMS Ulysses'.
MacLean's narrative is set aboard the charter ship 'Morning Rose' as it sails towards the Arctic island of the title.The weather is appalling: the film crew fall ill,some even die.But nobody ever dies from seasickness.There is a murderer aboard.
MacLean's last sortie to the Arctic,for a plot.The novel was the basis for the 1980 movie featuring Donald Sutherland,Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Widmark.
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