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EDWARDS (Norman): 'At Sea (1916-1919). A War Diary..': typescript, c.130pp: a concisely written account of experiences aboard merchant ship 'Maple Leaf', then on the 'Carlow Castle', regularly at risk from submarine attacks, recording travels to Alexandria, Port Said ('reputed to be the wickedest place on earth'), Mesopotamia and India: in 1917 Edwards arrives at Sierra Leone ('the home of ju-ju magic'), concluding in Australia in 1919: bound in contemporary red half-calf, gilt ruled and lettered, rubbed, 4to. (1)
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