Wilson, H.W.: EditorMareMagnum
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Pages: 225-252. Magnificent centerfold contains a montage of photos of Canadians on their way to serve the British side. Cover photo of Czar Nicholas II, Emperor of all the Russians. This part contains the conclusion of Chapter 13 and the beginning of chapter 14 which is entitled "How Germany Sowed the High Seas with Mines." Photos/illustrations include: H.M.S. Monarch; Germany's Battleships and Small Craft; Panoramic view of German battle fleet in Kiel Harbour; Wilhelmshaven; A German Contact mine; Minesweepers; Canada's splendid rally to the flag; Cross-section of a torpedo; The Tsar inspecting Russian aviators; Cossacks in Galicia; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Front cover taped in place. Book
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
4to., First Edition, with very numerous colour and monochrome plates throughout, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., with photographic title-spread, folding coloured plates, very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, and endpaper plans; pale green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Immensely detailed coverage by arguably the foremost naval analyst of our time.
2 vols., 8vo., with numerous illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a fine copy. Jane's classic history first appeared in 1912 [not, as stated in NMM5, 1914], with a revised edition in two volumes in 1915. This facsimile reproduces the latter version with Jane's final amendments.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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.
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
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Norwegian motor vessel Hamen; Great photo of the turbine steamer Awatea inside front cover; Nice photo of a Birkinhead dockland scene; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Under Sail; Ships Pictorial; European Ferry Commentary; Shipping of the Humber Ports - a review of current activity; Australasian Steamers of the North Pacific - part 2 of a review of trans-Pacific liner services 1920-1967; Busier Days at Birkinhead; The Pirate Radio Ships; King George V Class Battleships - a history of the class - part 1; For Want of Work; European Ferry Commentary; Ship Sales; Letters; Nice photo of the HMS King George V in 1946 inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Shell tanker Halia; On the Waterfront; Shiips Pictorial; New Ship News; 'North Carolina' Class Battleships - Alan Crisp describes the design and history of a notable class of US battleship of WWII including their camouflage schems; Goole's Compartment Boat Hoists - the history of a unique coal shipping system at Goole; Recalling the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co - photofeature; Shell's Classic Tankers - photo-illustrated article; Ferry Fleets Updates; Cruise Ship Review; Freighter Travel Updates; Baltic Ferry Cruise Pictorial; Ship Sales; Full-page photo of the Sir Charles Parsons; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Queen Mary; On the Waterfront; Fal Report; Ships Pictorial; Naval Review; Poland's Pride - mv Batory - Part 1 - Fifty years after she entered service, Peter C. Kohler describes the career of the Gdynia-Amerika liner Batory; Motor Schooner 'De Wadden' - the career of the Dutch-built motor schooner now preserved at Liverpool by the Merseyside Maritime Museum; Under Sail; Hail and Farewell to a Great Lady, how the Queen Mary was sold to the city of Long Beach, California - part 1 of 2; 'North Carolina' Class Battleships - Alan Crisp describes the design and history of a notable class of US battleship of WWII- Part 2 - from WWII actions to preservation; European Ferry Commentary; Ship Sales; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Full-page photo of the Norasia Caria; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations (a number folding); pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations (a number folding); pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a 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
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
190p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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.
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
