NELSON

Reprint Society, 1950-01-01. First Thus Reprint,. Hardcover. VG/VG++/VG++. Box 72 HARDBACK ?SIXTY + YEARS OLD? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1950 (1947)* Publisher: Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title & border to scarlet spine label. No bumps or rubs, very slight marks. VG++* Jacket condition: Dark blue paper dust wrapper. Yellow and white design and title to spine and face, showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Spine slightly faded. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge coloured but faded, small amount of foxing to end-papers & fore edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: One b/w print at frontis.* Pages: 366 pp. text. xviii pp. & index at rear.* Description: Most of the ?known? facts about Nelson in the public domain are erroneous! He didn?t loose his sight at sea and he never lost the eye, he never wore a patch over the eye and the missing arm was also a land based event. His affair with Lady Hamilton was only a five minute meeting until he was forty years old. The famous message ? England expects?. was not what he wrote, it was in effect altered by his signal officer from England confides?. * A NEAR VG++ copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG* 0