The Mountain and the Feather

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in red and light blue on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 397pp. Pencilled note to front endpaper. Shelf-soil to covers, with faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped (priced $5.00), with modest shelf-wear, rubbing to spine ends and extremities, and faint foxing; Very Good. Ashmead's first novel offers a second-person narrative into Navy life, with a focus on the Pacific War of the Islands and the operation of Pearl Harbor. [83858].