Delilah is a sea story unlike any ever written, although in reading it one is reminded of Ahab's single-minded quest for the great white whale, of Joseph Conrad and his men of the sea, of the struggles of epic myth and the real battles that have become mythic within the imaginations of men. The novel is in all ways extraordi nary. The story, which occurs on the eve of the first World War, is that of a U.S. Navy destroyer on detached duty in the South Seas and of the men who serve in her. In the tiny world of a de ...
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Delilah is a sea story unlike any ever written, although in reading it one is reminded of Ahab's single-minded quest for the great white whale, of Joseph Conrad and his men of the sea, of the struggles of epic myth and the real battles that have become mythic within the imaginations of men. The novel is in all ways extraordi nary. The story, which occurs on the eve of the first World War, is that of a U.S. Navy destroyer on detached duty in the South Seas and of the men who serve in her. In the tiny world of a de stroyer in a vast universe of the sea, the officers and men of Delilah carry out their orders heroically, according to the code of the fighting man, to patrol their assigned area, to inspect remote islands, to show the flag, to carry out diplomat ic missions, and to prepare for the impending war. From the beginning, the men aboard Delilah face severe trials. A voracious eater of coal, she must be fed con stantly. A typhoon provides a test that all but the hardiest must fail. When the novel was first published in 1941, Sinclair Lewis noted that it was "more real than reality." The New York Times called it an "extraordinarily lovely novel of a fighting ship"; and Clifton Fadiman referred to it in the New Yorker as a "mature work of imagi nation on a subject ordinarily left to writers of adventure yarns."
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Original grey and blue cloth slightly marked, inner hinges starting, otherwise very good in a near very good, edge rubbed and chipped dust jacket with some tape reinforcement at edges.
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Paperback. NOT Ex-library. Very good condition. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
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Fine. Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover in stiff series-design wraps with Jerome Martin artwork spanning front and read, large 12mo/small 8vo. xix + 478pp. + note on series. Fine. Clean, square and unmarked with especially bright wraps. VERY tight binding. Somewhat less common series title; rarely in such extraordinary condition.
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Good. Third large printing, 1941 Farrar. Grey cloth deckled edges. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges, tanning to pages. Very nice example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
