The Laughing Cow: A U-Boat Captain's Story by Jost Metzler. 1955, First Edition.

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The Laughing Cow: A U-Boat Captain's Story by Jost Metzler. 1955, First Edition.The Laughing Cow: A U Boat Captain's Story by Jost Metzler. Publisher: William Kimber, London, 1955, First Edition. Good hardback with fair jacket. Blue cloth boards are a little rubbed and bumped with some fading to edges. Binding firm, no inscriptions, pages tanned with some foxing to end papers and edges. Jacket is not price clipped, it is rubbed, chipped and marked with some loss and repaired tears, fading to spine. 217 pages, illustrated. The

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