The Witching Ship

New York: Random House, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated first printing. Book is a little bumped at upper fore edge corners. Light bumping and wear to head and tail of spine. Pages are free of marks and binding is sound. Dust jacket has a just a bit of wear to extremities; light rubbing/soiling to surfaces; not price clipped; price on flap has been crossed through and an .49 written in ink next to it. DJ has been placed in an archival mylar sleeve. 271 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches. ''An eerie, intense and unpleasant fascination characterizes this story of an eight days' voyage of a luxury cruise ship--Dutch and presumably neutral--pressed into service early in the war as a transport ship for refugees, only to be caught in its final days, with the news that Rotterdam had been blasted from the sky. Those eight days are mirrored in a vacuum: on the side, the terrors of escaping Hitler's Europe, with shreds of dignity and hastily gathered portable possessions and memories of past grandeurs and future obloquies; on the other, a thin scattering of Americans, homeward bound, seeking fleeting sensations snatched in passing.'' --Kirkus Reviews