Salt and Steel: Reflections of a Submariner.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1999]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 299pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Rear inner flyleaf bears circular blind-embossed ownership imprint. Item #51534
ISBN: 1557500541
Handsome first edition, boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on front flyleaf: "For Eric Erickson -- / With the regard & best wishes of / the author -- / Edward L. Beach / 20 April 1999." The bestselling 1955 fiction "Run Silent, Run Deep," basis for the 1958 film starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, was penned by this real-life U.S. Navy submarine officer (1918-2002).
Price: $45.00