Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1950. Seventh Impression. Hardcover. Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: Stead -- Cover Art. Red coloured boards with blind decoration and blind stamped publishes initials on the front panel with black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dust wrapper, by Stead, with yellow coloured background and blue and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. A novel about a Captains' first voyage to Australia as commander of a fast passenger liner. Book was first printed in 1938. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and rubbing to the book corners. There is fading to the extreme edges of the spine, commensurate with dust wrapper loss. Spine is cocked. A little rubbing and scuffing to the book panels and there is browning and foxing to the top paper edge and browning to the other paper edges. Offset tanning to the endpapers along with some browning. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste down. he dust wrapper is in pretty poor shape -- rubbing, fading and grubby marks abound and the corners have become chipped with some loss. The front fold over edge has a large percentage of its length split. There is a ragged hole to the middle of the spine and there is chipping and loss to both the top and bottom dust wrapper edges. Clipping of the dust wrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 224 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Stead -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Ships & the Sea; Fiction -- Vintage; Maritime; Inventory No: 0103656. .

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On Sep 25 2022, a reader said:

An absolute corker of a read. A gripping tale of adventure, character and ambition for a newly promoted commander of a passenger liner between the wars. A thoroughly English story of the sea, of ships, passengers and crew travelling back and forth from Tilbury to Australia and always the question of what the commander shall do, or be expected to do. The words and language used throughout the book have that old fashioned pacy cleverness that, to me, is really enjoyable. Storytelling as it used to be. Really good.

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0103656
Title: The Commander Shall...
Author: Jordan, Humfrey
Illustrator: Stead -- Cover Art
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Poor
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Seventh Impression
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1950
Keywords: BZDB2 Maritime -- Passenger Ship, England to Australia -- Captains First Voyage, Hodder and Stoughton -- Yellow Jacket -- Series Ships & the Sea; Fiction -- Vintage; Maritime; Stead -- Cover Art Unbranded Jordan, Humfrey The Commander Shall....
Bookseller catalogs: Maritime; Fiction -- Vintage;

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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online

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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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