1977 Alphonso's Dream: The Fate of the Ship 'Maloning' and of her Master, Captain Alphonso Malone, Ex-R.N

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

The first edition of this very scarce, Limited Edition work.

Inscribed 'To Charles & Steffi with all good wishes, June, 1995, Peter Weevers' to the colophon. Numbered 83 of 500 copies produced, and further flat signed by Weevers to the same leaf.

With a further letter from Weevers, the illustrator, loosely inserted. It reads 'Dear Charles & Steffi, I enclose another 'rare treasure'. A relic from the past that I thought you might like to add to your collection. The history of this one is a comic tragedy itself - or nightmare!'.

Weevers does not further explain the tragedy of this work, but it may explain the scarcity of the book.

A children's poem about a ship's captain by Anthony Roberts.

Illustrated with numerous vignette illustrations and five colour plates by Peter Weevers. Collated, complete.