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JAFFEE,WALTER W: : THE LAST LIBERTY: THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN.[Author dedicated,SIGNED+date copy.]

USA.PALO ALTO,CA.THE GLENCANNON PRESS,1993.

ISBN 0963758608.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp. [Complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2,so 1st edn,2nd imp.] FINE/FINE.Neat, handwritten owner's red ink name+date (Brian Ferrand May 1994 - see also rja601416) to top edge of front pastedown, partially hidden by dw/dj's front inner flap; and author's handwritten,green ink warmly dedicated to owner,and SIGNED with place name+date: 'To Brian Many thanks and all the best Walter W. Jaffee 5/24/94, Portsmouth,England.' to pre-title blank and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,dark blue background with b/w ship's photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to front board and also to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps - aforementioned front pastedown excepted.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,i-vpp+1-490pp [paginated] includes author's separate foreword and intro,16 chapters and an epilogue, contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,12 (A-L) appendices,a biblio and an index,plus [unpaginated] SIGNED dedicated+date blank pre-title page,dedication,an epigram, contents list/table,acknowledgements and 4pp blanks at the rear. Imagine living on board a merchant ship as she crosses the North Atlantic Ocean during WW2.Inside the cargo holds are grain,canned goods,ammunition,trucks, tanks,jeeps or guns.The crew is made up of professional merchant seamen and Navy sailors.The sea is rough,thick fog and freezing rain alternate with hurricanes and gale force winds,the ship tosses, pitches and rolls,her decks glistening with water or sometimes covered with ice so thick and heavy the ship is in danger of capsizing.Add the constant threat from German U-boats and mines,bombs,collisions at sea and engine breakdowns.Throw in D-Day and the Normandy landings,eleven of them,and you have a taste of the first four voyages of the SS Jeremiah O'Brien. 'THE LAST LIBERTY' captures it all, bringing the reader onto the deck of the ship and ashore in foreign ports - Halifax,St. Johns,Loch Ewe,Liverpool, London,Edinburgh,Cherbourg.You are there from the "Battle of Lord Nelson's Pub" to Operation Overlord.You know what the crew feels as they watch the troops go over the side to storm the beaches of Northern France,knowing that many will never return.You share the danger,anxiety, boredom and strain of wartime seafaring. Then you journey from the unforgiving weather of the North Atlantic through the Panama Canal to the peaceful beauty of the South Pacific.Share the crew's reactions to living,eating and sleeping on top of 10,000 tons of bombs carried from New Orleans to New Guinea,bombs that no one seems to want after they arrive. Finally,join the ship in her second life, as a living museum.Discover what is involved in getting the US government to give up one of its ships.Learn how a ship that has lain idle after 33 years is brought back to life.Meet the volunteers, understand what they do and why they do it,what life on board a museum ship is like and what it takes to make the SS Jeremiah O'Brien a living memorial to merchant seamen everywhere. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015 and again this year too,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances, dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp.
'To Brian Many thanks and all the best Walter W. Jaffee 5/24/94,Portsmouth,England.'

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