The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
1951. Second Edition. 416 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Map at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.