1935-1947 Swept Channels; Western Mediterranean, 1942-1945

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first editions, first impressions of two non-fiction works by British sailor, author, and journalist Captain Henry Taprell Dorling, who wrote under the name Taffrail.

The first work is 'Swept Channels, Being an Account of the Work of the Minesweepers in the Great War' (1935), with the inscription 'for Mrs Mitchell, she typed it with much patience, from the author Taprell Dorling, 19 September 1935'. Mrs. Mitchell was Taffrail's secretary for many years, typing out many of his published works.

Illustrated with twenty-four plates, and eleven maps and diagrams. Collated, complete.

The original dust wrapper of 'Swept Channels' is pasted to the rear pastedown and free endpaper.

The second work is the historical account 'Western Mediterranean 1942-1945' (1947), in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, and with a loosely inserted typed slip reading 'With the author's compliments'.

Illustrated with fourteen plates and eleven maps. Collated, complete.