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Contents: Cover illustration of a Long Tom (155 mm) gun firing in Italy; Oldsmobile/GM color ad inside front cover features insigne of the 339th fighter squadron Army Air Forces; GM Diesel Power color ad showing excavating equipment in action; First Act of Invasion Drama - attack on Nazi's Gustav Line - Allies strike hard in Italy following regrouping of Forces - Japs follow suit in China; Air cooperation with ground forces still a problem for invasion command; Sevastopol Rises - smashing 3-day assault brings proudest victory since Stalingrad; Interesting list of fines posted near the front line in Italy (place name deleted by censor); Report on Italy - Our First Continental Invasion - Seven Bloody Months of Fighting; Priest Orlemanski's mission to Moscow ends in suspension from Holy duties - his "treating" with Stalin brings disciplinary action amid Polish-Russian Quarrel; Dramatic photos of Herman Wallenda and a stunt gone wrong at Madison Square Garden - with no net below him!; De Soto Transportation ad - shows cars and planes; Poll-Tax Filibuster; Cold-blooded Ethyl ad shows a sneering airman painting another Jap kill onto his aircraft; PCA Airline ad; Bonds to Battleships - James V. Forrestal; Allies touch up last plans for rule of liberated Europe - but Russia does not yet see eye to eye with U.S. and Britain on Handling of Nazis and Poles; Firestone color centerfold ad; Drama in Stokholm - Allied agents Force SKF to decide on ball bearings vital to the Nazis; Photos of Doukhobors partially disrobed in a Vancouver, B.C. courtroom; El Salvador rebels flock back home as Menendez takes over Presidency; Montgomery-Ward employees celebrate their CIO union's election victory; Rocket to the moon - Willie Ley says it is possible; Budd Manufacturing color ad; Old Overholt whiskey color ad. Moderate wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Articles: The Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War; British Marine Industry and the Diesel Engine; Management and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Ports; The Development of Strategic Concepts and Shipbuilding Programmes for the Soviet Navy, 1922-1953 - Stalin's Battleships and Battlecruisers; plus several book reviews. One article high-lighted in Table of Contents, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Cover illustration of Sir Douglas Haig and his Army Commanders on horseback. How the Germans Received the Armies of Occupation - article. Allied flags off the Golden Horn - 5 photos. Gallipoli - where Britons now keep watch and ward - 6 photos. Signs of the Conquest from Kiel and Cologne - 5 photos. Photogravure centerfold includes the following: Excellent photo portrait of Sir Douglas Haig, King George at the St. Quentin Canal, Allied Battleships off Constantinople and a photo portrait of President Poincare presenting General Petain with his baton as a Marshal of France. Photos of British troops in Beirut. Huns yield tribute to their masters in the air - 5 photos. Homewards from Horror-camps of the Boche - 4 photos. Revitalising our Villages - article by Basil Clarke, and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A worthy copy. Book
190p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Roy. 4to., Fourth Impression, with 450 illustrations, plans and diagrams in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with closed tear on front panel. Considerably revised edition of a standard reference first published in 1956. ALL PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Law 0998.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 450 illustrations, plans and diagrams in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; original navy buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Bright copy of a standard reference. SCARCE. Law 0998.
xv, 701 pages. Index. Generously illustrated with diagrams and black and white reproductions of archival photos. "The final word on the subject, a book that can never ben superceded. The sources from which it is drawn are principally the Official Returns, Admiralty Ships Covers, Progress Books and the personal notes and confidences of a number of Directors of Naval Construction. The large number of photographs came from the author's collection ammassed over the years; the ships' plans have never before been equalled; throughout, previously unpublished information is provided and details of all vessels are compared with those of their foreign rivals." - dust jacket. Former library copy with above-average wear and usual markings. Front hinge starting. Back hinge taped. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy reference copy of this monumental study. Bibliographic reference: Law 0998. Book
8vo., First English Edition, with 16 plates on 8, 6 maps (4 double-page) and 4 line drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and frayed at edges. First published in Paris in 1965, Peillard's account is a graphic and lively survey of the various British attacks on Tirpitz in the Norwegian fiords. Appendices include a useful tabular summary of the air assaults. Enser, p.59;Law, 1681.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The 'Old Lady' was arguably the most famous British capital ship of the two world wars. This well-crafted account includes valuable personal reminiscences from the men who served on her.
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the steam collier Cliff Quay; Great photo of the Royal Mail Lines`Amazon inside front cover; Nice photo of four Oberon Class submarines of the Royal Australian Navy entering Sydney Harbour; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; European Ferry Commentary; Salvaging the European Gateway; King George V Class Battleships - part 2; Cook`s of Wivenhoe; Still in Steam - Brian Stannard describes the last steam colliers on the UK coast - the three colliers owned by CEGB, now probably in their last year of service; Naval Review; Brocklebank Line Fleet History - part 1 of a short history of T & J Brocklebank Ltd; Ship Sales; By the Latest Packet; Nice photo of the HMS Bold Pathfinder in 1953 inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
247 p. Maps on endpapers. The author directed 1956 motion picture on the same subject, The Battle of the River Plate. Hardcover Very good condition; blue cloth spine spotted chipped d.j. fair
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge and tiny mark to rear. 320pp. With over 1,000 illustrations and with information on over 6,000 warships in this comprehensive encyclopedia of the world's navies during the Second World War. A heavy book.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, over 600 photographs and diagrams (many full-page) in the text, and many finely detailed drawings (including 16 folding and 4 in colour depicting camouflage patterns); cloth, gilt back, a very good,clean copy in the dustwrapper. Lovely copy of a scarce standard reference updating and expanding Parkes. Includes many designs which never left the drawing board. Law, 1002 (recording the first edition of 1976).
4to., First Edition, with large folding coloured plans and numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. As always with this series, an excellent technical account. Increasingly scarce. Enser, p.59; Law, 1001
4to., with large folding coloured plan, and numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. As always with this series, an excellent technical history. Law, 1003.
Oblong 4to., Revised Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications. First published in 1992.
82 pages. Features: Fearless British MGBs during WWII; The U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo; A Mighty Task Force Prepares to Strike Iran; The USS Pennsylvania; Remembrance of the Iowa; British Naval Equipment on Show; Battleships of the French Navy, 1913-1965. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. One of the scarcest titles in this valuable and much sought-after series. Law, 1683.
130 pages. Sea Classics Special: 100 Years of the Battleship. Magazine format. Archival black and white photography throughout. Features include: The Bull of Scapa Flow - the Sinking of the Royal Oak; Battleship Losses of World War Two; Japan's Mighty Kongos; The American Dreadnought - 1890-1916; The Death of Force 'Z'; Battleship Shoot-out at Guadalcanal; The Fleet that Rose From the Ashes; Operation 'Cerberus' - the escape of Hitler's navy; Still Steaming 'in harms way' - the Iowas of Today's Navy; U.S. Navy Battleship Directory; For all the World to see - the new Mexico Class BBs; HMS Warspite - England's Grand Old Lady; U.S.S. Utah - The Forgotten Memorial; The Best Kept Secret of WWII - The 'Alaska' Class; The Battleship 'Texas' at Normandy. Average wear. No tears. Binding sound. Nice solid copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 161.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and over 600 photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Massive work of scholarship covering over 1,000 vessels of over 500 classes from more than 20 countries. Unique in its scope.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Conway's splendid 'Anatomy of the Ship' series.
8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 16, text pages very lightly browning at edges; original grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers ROYAL SOVEREIGN ('Tiddly Quid'), REVENGE, RAMILLIES, RESOLUTION, and the ill-fated ROYAL OAK. Although classified by Churchill as 'coffin ships' these aged veterans of WWI fought strenuously throughout WWII; surprisingly, all but one survived. THE FIRST EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN DUSTWRAPPER.
544 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "...Provides a worthy monument to the last days of Britain's battlefleet." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with photographs and coloured line drawings in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
