WWII Signed 1943 HM Corvette Nicholas Monsarrat 1st Australian Ed Rocky Creek
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True 1943 First Australian Edition — WWII Rocky Creek Hospital Provenance The Volume: A highly important, scarce True 1942/1943 First Australian Edition printing of H.M. Corvette by celebrated naval author Nicholas Monsarrat (Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd, London & Melbourne). Retains its original striking pictorial wartime paper wraps The Historic 1943 AIF Inscription: The title flyleaf carries an exceptional, authentic hand-penned military field inscription tracking directly to the front lines of the Australian home front: “2/2 A.G.H. / Rocky Creek / Atherton / 21/6/43” The Provenance Context: This volume serves as an intact physical artifact from the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital (AIF) based at the historic Rocky Creek War Complex on the Atherton Tablelands. Hand-inscribed in June 1943 during the height of the Pacific conflict, this book was a structural component of the largest military hospital installation in the Southern Hemisphere as it treated casualties from the New Guinea offensives. Condition Notes: Displays beautiful, honest age-appropriate vintage patina. The binding stitching remains structurally complete, and the text block is flat with honest vintage oxidation, free of modern text highlighting. We present this zero-competition, verified wartime preservation piece as a premier acquisition target for serious collectors of WWII Australiana, military medical history, and naval memoirs.
- Publisher: Cassell & Co. Ltd, London & Melbourne
- Year: 1943
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Good
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