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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 "The final word on the subject, a book that can never ben superceded.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author's collection ammassed over the years; the ships' plans have never before been equalled; throughout, previously unpublished information is provided and details of all vessels are compared with those of their foreign rivals."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
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
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 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.
4to., Second and Best Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous photographs , illustrations, plans and mas throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second and corrected version of the first UK edition of 2009. Detailed coverage of the French Navy's battleships of WWII: Dunkerque, Strasbourg, Richelieu, Jean Bart, Clemenceau and Gascogne.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. 88 p. B/w ills. Some Turkish naval, battleships, gunboats throughout history. Gazi gemilerimiz.
4to., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 25 plates on 18, numerous illustrations (one full-page) in the text and front endpaper map in red and black; original grey-blue cloth, upper board blocked with ship's crest in blue, very neatly recased with old endpapers preserved, a very good, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the possession of G.A.J. Seymour (possibly Chief Shipwright). HMS Howe's last wartime commission took her from Scapa Flow to Auckland, including the UK naval ports, Gibraltar, Algiers, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Trincomalee, Singapore, Colombo, Fremantle, Sydney and Auckland. Then she travelled across the Pacific to take part in air strikes against Leyte. Then back to Fremantle and on to Durban (where this publication seems to have been printed), Cape Town, Mombassa, the Seychelles and Colombo again, after which she retraced her outward route back to the UK. This record is the usual ship's mixture of chronology, geography, anecdote, private reminiscence, humour, cartoons and Crossing the Line. There is much coverage of her gunnery for which she was renowned throughout the Pacific Fleet. AN IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE ADDITION TO THE OPERATIONAL RECORD OF THE KGV BATTLESHIPS IN WWII. RARE. We can find no record of this publication in any reference known to us.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Detailed career history with badge and battle honours. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 46 plates and 30 maps and plans (a number folding), small neat signature on frontispiece verso; original cloth, gilt backs, boards very lightly age-worn else a very good, bright, clean set. First published in 1895. Hattendorf B63.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 21 plates on 12, several maps (a number full-page) in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.186.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 21 plates on 12, several maps (a number full-page) in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, fore-edge very lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.186.
86 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Laird & Co. Apple Brandy inside front cover; Samson card table ad; Chamberlain and British press censorship; Britain War Preparations; The Kaiser on Hitler; Myra Kingsley - Star of the Star-Gazers; The German-Japanese Spy Alliance - article with photos of Nazi spies in America, Lt. Comm. Farnsworth, Harry T. Thompson, Eric Glaser, Otto Voss, Guenther Rumrich and Johanna Hofmann; 20th-Century Wonder Girl Eleanora Sears of Boston; Feuding Among the FCC; Red Cross Surgeon in China describes how injuried and sick Japanese soldiers are killed rather than tended to, 'for the glory of the Emperoro'; Photos of yoga disciple Buddha Bose in various unusual physical states; Photo of toy tanks being painted in Nuremberg, Germany; Photo of toy battleships being painted by Japanese teen; Other photo subjects include French Foreign Minister Bonnet, Labor man Dave Beck, the Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska, Mr. Rolly sharpening a huge saw blade in Alaska, Japanese soldiers in action, Dr, Virgil Dickson, Principal Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Vaclav Podstata, many photos of children being racially integrated in the U.S., the Budin Clinic in New York, X-ray devices, streetlighting for safety, and the Brooklyn bail bond racket; Dave Beck - Political and Economic Boss of the Pacific Northwest; Hugh Bartlett Monjar and his assorted 'clubs' make him a lot of money; Meddling in Matanuska; Article on Marihuana - "Our Newest Vice"; America's Solution to a Minority Problem - racial mixing of kids in California; Would You Have Noticed That? - Albert S. Osbornprobably has the world's most observant eyes and is a 'student of questioned documents'; Humanitarian surgeons look forward to the day when their intervention will no longer be needed; Proper Highway Illumination for safety; Cleveland's Negro Problem - the "Future Outlook League" uses racketeer-style methods to promote black employment; Hoaxes often invented to sell newspapers; Photo of bicycle polo game; Article on Crooked Bond Bailsmen in New York; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Lucky Strike features tobacco buyer James Walker and associates chatting around pot-bellied stove; and more. Above-average wear. Front cover nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., with numerous photographs and drawings throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The first dedicated monograph on this famous class, comprising ANSON, DUKE OF YORK, HOWE, KING GEORGE V, PRINCE OF WALES. Includes detailed service histories covering between them virtually every naval theatre of WWII.
190p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
76 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of kids roller skating by Russell Sambrook; News bits include - The Basic Need is Goodwill, Life Goes On, The Right of Free (Speech) Utterance, Arguing That Gets Nowhere, The Taks of Re-Confederation, Austria and Tariffs, A Poet's Obituary - Gabriele d'Annunzio; Very nice one-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad for their St. Lawrence Seaway service; Black Gold in Our Empire's Defence - fascinating photo-illustrated article on the world's oil industry; The Shot at Dusk (short story); The Fatted Calf (short story); Love is a Winged Thing (short story); Salvage at Scapa Flow - photo-illlustrated article on German battleships - sunk by their own officers in 1919 - which end their days in British Dry-Dock; Sunrunner's Madness; The 3 Daughters of De Monaye (part III of this short story); Putt-Putting - photo-illustrated article on power boating, with photo of Doug Fonda, U.S. High-point outboard champion; Nice one-page Colgate toothpage ad features the Dionne Quints; Land of Wish-it-Were (verse); Classy one-page photo ad for the 1938 Chevrolet; Nice one-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Palmolive soap ad features photo of Mrs. Clarence Beairsto of Winnipeg; Parker Vacumatic pen ad features photo of author Kenneth Roberts; Investment news; Movie news with photos of Ann Gillis, Rita Cansino, Dixie Dunbar, Phyllis Brooks, Donald Barry, Tony Martin, John Hall and Gordon Jones; Lux soap ad features photos of Loretta Young and Irene Dunne; Nostalgic half-page ad by the Canadian Association of Ice Industries, Inc. includes photo of man placing block of ice into icebox; (fridge); Exhibit 'A' - Your husband; Article on raising a son; Cooking article; Nice one-page Frigidaire fridge ad includes photo of man holding their new silent 'meter-miser'; World Sayings; Handsome colour ad for the De Luxe Ford V-8 for 1938 shows maroon car in driveway with car jockey speaking to woman of the house; Nostalgic back cover colour ad for the Simmons Slumber King bed spring; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed histories of the RN's only 16-inch gun battleships. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 16 plates, free endpapers very lightly spotted; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Scarce in this condition.
132 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Cover illustration of mobile deep-sea floor device of J.E. Williamson; Fire at sea - a challenge to science; Lone fingerprints trap master criminals; Wins worldwife fame with microscope hobby; Earth's last drop of oil sought by new discoveries; Flying Battleships; How to Build a Sky Globe; Stalk Sea Monsters in Odd Craft; How Shotgun Champions battle for their crowns. Ads: Very nostalgic illustrated General Electric ad inside front cover features their home battery charger; RCA Victor ad illustrates the Table Model 123 "Magic Brain" radio; Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features inset photos of W.C. Geiser of Springfield, Illinois, Mrs. M.C. Mondy of Conneaut, Ohio, and R.T. Pursley of Hammond, Louisianna; Lovely color back cover ad for Chesterfield features their cigarettes in color superimposed over black and white photos from Asia and Europe. Average wear. Signature upon front covers. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and diagrams (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Warship Monographs. Monograph Two. The five battleships of this class - Queen Elizabeth, Barham, Malaya, Valiant, Warspite - were the last designed under Sir Philip Watts as Director Naval Construction. All served in the latter stages of WWI (Queen Elizabeth controversially at the Dardanelles) and with distinction (especially Warspite) throughout WWII which all save Barham, a tragic early loss, survived. Scarce, especially in this condition. Law, 0994.
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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
