first edition Hardcover
1952 · New York
by Hyams, Edward
New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), generally rubbed and soiled, foxed at the back panel. Blue cloth, rubbed at the top edge, with white ink lettering and rules on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Hyams' satirical novel about three drunk naval officers who jokingly weld a weird instrument as terrible as the atom bomb to the mast of a neutral ship. (Inventory #: 9829)