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4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams (several full-page) in the text, and 2 three-page detailed drawings; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. WITH THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE 'BATTLE DAMAGE' SUPPLEMENT ISSUED SEPARATELY AND VIRTUALLY ALWAYS MISSING OR PRESENT IN FACSIMILE FORM. THE FRONT COVER OF THE ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENT ENVELOPE (ITSELF A FACSIMILE OF A CLASSIFIED OFFICIAL REPORT) IS PRESENT AS A COLOUR PHOTO-FACSIMILE. As always with this series, an excellent technical account. SCARCE. Law, 0986
Features: London Conference re: Cyprus and Kenya; Amsterdam Flood; Macmillan in Nigeria; De Gaulle sheds M. Pinay; Where Assyrians, Urartians and Mannaeans fought for Supremacy; Philippine Dancers visit London; 2-page Illustration of Famous Liners - from many countries - which have been rebuilt and given a new lease on life; The Mountbatten Wedding; Eruption at Mt. Kilauea; 'Sink the Bismarck!' - film; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous full-page photographs in the text and full-page map, neat veteran's inscription on frontispiece recto and title; original red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
64 pages. Features: This Happened Before - Germany invaded Denmark in 1864, before its most recent Hitlerian invasion - article with great photos; Gathering of a Clan in London - The MacLeods affirm their loyalty to their chief - article with photos; The Little Man Who Leads France - Paul Reynaud; Jean Arthur at Home; Spring Comes to Cornwall; H.M.S. Gipsy is raised by Salvage Men; Where the Sportsmen Have Gone - sports stars of a year ago are now in the military or doing war work at home - article with photos of Bob Gregory, Eric Filby, Ted Drake, footballer Bartram, Sydney Wooderson, Alan Pennington, Peter Cranmer, J.G. Jenkins, G.M. Milne, Mervyn Jones; Leslie Ames, Cliff Bastin, George Male, Len Harvey, "Snowie" Buckingham, Len Hutton, and Tom Lawton; Croonerettes - Pat Taylor, Gloria Brent, Evelyn Dall, Vera Lynn, Beryl Davis and Phyllis Robins; The Good Soldier Schweik - created by the Czech writer Hasek; Diary of the War, No. 33 - The 31st Week; The Marooning of Barny; Letters about refugees; Nice back cover ad for Coty lipstick; Many other wonderfully nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Front cover photo of London's great "Wings for Victory" Week - 100,000 people in Trafalgar Square; 12 related photos on the following two pages; Wonderful full-page photo of flying fortresses - prominent in the sensational Bismarck Sea battle; The Battle of the Bismarck Sea - article by Cyril Falls; Axis Forces Take a Pounding in the Retreat from Kasserine - Six photos; Indians gathered around a downed Japanese plane; Sketch of Germany's latest air transport - the Me. 323 six-engined "Powered Glider"; Large separate photos of submarine chasers the H.M.S. "Abelia" and the H.M.S. "Rother"; Hour-by-Hour the Bombs Rain Down on Emeny Targets in Europe - seven aerial photos; London Air Raid Shelter Tragedy - three photos of the shelter where 178 people died; Funeral of the Late Captain E.A. Fitzroy; The New Speaker of the House of Commons and his wife, Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown; Before and after photos of factory of the Societe des Produits Chimiques, at Tessenderloo, in Belgium - apparently when the factory was bombed there were 1,200 caualties and 4,000 left homeless; Squadron Leader H.R.K. Wells; Photos of new German anti-personnel bomb; Footbal cup final in Tripoli; Centerfold illustrations of doctors and dentists at work in the desert Army's Front Lines; Photos of London's "Wings for Victory" truimphal march through the city; Subhas Chandra speaking in Berlin; Captain S.H.A. Haggard; Alvar Liddell joins the R.A.F.; Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem; Photos of some of the international pilots of the Air Transport Auxilliary; Photos from two recent war films, the Russian "One Day of War" and the British "Desert Victory"; Fascinating photos of a training school for submarine crews; Glimpses of Nazi Germany - article by Charles E. Byles; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
92 pages. Features: Nice Mimeograph ad shows their duplicator in use in many military offices; Great Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ad shows sub sinking Japanese carrier with caption "The Speak a Language the Japs Understand"; One-page Boeing photo ad for the B-17 shows an Axis plane about to crash land; Marjorie Gestring marries - with photo of her; Brief obituaries for Mrs. Emma G.M. Fall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sir Edward Beatty, and Ben B. Lindsey; Dramatic Beech Aircraft one-page photo ad shows an AT-11 dropping bombs; Uncommon Cadillac ad shows their new M-5 tank (who knew Cadillac made tanks?); Fall of Gabes - Montgomery won on his biggest gamble; Major war coverage; Photo of US bombers attacking Japanese ship in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Aerial photo of Krupp Works bombed by RAF; Interesting photo of Japanese soldiers in Burma dancing with Geisha girls; Series of domestic rebukes to FDR; Photo of Fiorello H. La Guardia in uniform during WWI; Before and after photos of a Seattle meat market illustrate meat shortage; Buick ad shows large shells being manufactured; Great one-page color ad for the Vega Ventura aircraft; Photo in massive Douglas Aircraft factory at Oklahoma City which builds Skytrains; Photo of Greg Rice and his two-mile world's record run; Photo of sheep grazing in the Pasadena Rose Bowl(!); Photo of "Hit Parade" dance star Chinita; Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Canadian Club ad features color photos of Tarpon Springs, Florida Sponge-fishermen; Nice back cover color-photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features night photo of Merchant Mariners at sea; and much more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Germany Carries the War to England's Coasts - Some Remarks on the Lusitania Hauling down the Union Jack and Hoisting the American Flag in Self-Protection; Separate Peace with Russia, by Louis Viereck; Bismarck's Great Policy, by Frank Koester; Maurice Leon, of Syria - Agent Provocateur against German interests in the United States; Military Strategy and the Enemy's Industry, by Dr. Hugo Schweitzer; German Insurance Companies - very favorable results for the past year - reserves available to protect American risks; No Double-Citizenship for American Citizens, by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg; Emperor Francis Joseph; Who Kills the Germans?, by Dr. Edmund von Mach; Nice illustrated ad for the Mosler Safe Co.; In behalf of 2,000,000 Americans; Advertising Talk - No. 6 - persuading advertisers to support this publication; Black Britain - a poem by Noel Lansing; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
Pages 725-756. Features: Cover photo-portrait of FDR; Photo of Admiral Sir John Cronyn Tovey being piped on board H.M.S. "Prince of Wales"; One-page photo of coastal command station armourers getting ready to bomb up; Eight photos of the vigils of the coastal command - bomb preparation, photo-processing, anti-aircraft stations, operations room and telegraphy section; Two pages of explanatory illustrations show how aircraft carriers, fighter and reconnaissance planes have revolutionised naval warfare and influenced naval architecture; Photos of recen Nazi vandalism - damage to Gray's Inn, the wrecked Canterbury Music Hall, Serjeants Inn, Queen Victoria St., and Dublin; Two pages with fifteen photos of bomb damage to the destroyed Church of the Knights Templar; The Fleet and its Air Arm (article); Air photo of Mannheim-on-the-Rhine shows destroyed western span of Autobahn bridge; Dramatic two-page illustration of "Catalina" under heavy fire as it spots the Bismarck in a heavy sea; Two-page illustration of the last of the "Bismarck", shelled, bombed and on fire as the Nazi mammoth is torpedoed by H.M.S. "Dorsetshire"; Thre photos of the last of the "Bismarck", including dozens of heads of bobbing survivors floating in the sea; Scene in "Petticoat Lane" where, on June 1st, rationing of clothing, cloth and footwear came into force; Photo of Averill Harriman welcoming the first of four million eggs to Britain from the U.S.; Photo of some of the few "Bismarck" survivors being landed at a British port; Photo of H.M.S. "York" which was lost; Photos of personalities of the week include the pilot of the "Catalina" which discovered the fleeing "Bismarck", Lieut. B. Stubbs, Dr. Kurt Heinrich Reith, Max Schmeling, King Victor Emanuel of Italy, Sir Hugh Walpole, Prajadhipok - Prince of Sukhodaya, Lord Cadman, and Admiral Boehm; Photos of Ilkley, which won War Weapons Week; Photos of Haile Selassie's Return to Addis Adaba; Illustratins of bombed Wren Churches - Christ's, St. Mildred's, St. Andrew's, St. James's, Piccadilly, and St. Anne; Interesting one-page Guiness ad entitled "Guiness at Waterloo - and Guinness today". Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 693-724. Features: Photo of Major John Bagot Glubb Pasha, reportedly killed in action in Iraq; Four photos of British evacuation from Greece; Informative two-page, seven-illustration feature describes the winged invaders of Crete - troop-carrying gliders - and the JU '52' sky tug; Excellent two-page illustrated feature entitled 'War in the Stratosphere' explains some problems presented by the enigma of flight miles above the earth; Six photos beneath the caption 'Eagle Wings of the Royal Navy - The Victorious Fleet Air Arm; H.M.S. Hood lost May 24 - photo of the ship and photo of part of her crew on deck during firing practice; Photo and illustration of the "Bismarck," sunk on May 27; The Battle for Crete - article; Three maps showing the strategic importance of Crete and Cyprus; Centrefold illustration depict Germany's air invasion of Crete - the first major attack by air-borne troops, across over 200 miles of sea; Photos of the "Beaufighter" night-fighter-bomber and the famous U.S.A. "Catalina"; Photos of thirteen personalities of the week include Igor I. Sikorsky setting record in Connecticut, Vice-Admiral L.E. Holland, Captain R. Kerr, Lord Austin of the well-known automaker, General Smuts, Sir Horace Rumbold, Flight-Officer F.H. Hanbury - first member of the W.A.A.F. to receive the M.B.E.; Two pages with twelve photos from Libya illustrate "Where Panzer Units Become Junk" - The Gallant Defenders of Tobruk; Five photos illustrate fighting in the western desert of North Africa where British patrols harass Nazis; Air photos of the cities of Rakki, Palmyra and Falluja; Photo of the King inspecting paratroops; Photo of truck carrying the wreckage of the ME. 110 fighter which Rudolf Hess flew to Glasgow; New discoveries in Iran exemplify the superb art of Persian goldsmiths over a period of seventeen centuries. Nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative wartime issue. Book
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of oxen pulling timbers at the Lunenberg Shipyard; What Happened in the Bismarck - One of the few German survivors, Helmut Keune, tells what happened when his ship was sunk after it sunk the Hood; Ordeal (fiction); Blind Date With Fate - side-street swamis/fortune-tellers; New Hope for Arthritic Cripples - Dr. Edward C. Kendall of the Mayo clinic and his new drug, an extract from the adrenal glands; Doesn't Anybody Like Kids? - angry father accuses adults of making this world unfit for happy youngsters; They Live Next Door to the Russians - tiny Finland sticks to her own fierce brand of freedom; Edmonton - A Boom at the Crossroads; Leading Lawyer Margaret Hyndman; After Twenty Years Guy Lombardo is still Tops; Sailer's Son (fiction); China's Red Ruler - photo-illustrated article on Mao Tze-tung; Dow Brewery ad highlights Fred Ryan of Toronto who halted a runaway train; Nice colour Massey-Harris ad shows tractor on African peanut plantation; O'Keefe's ad features nice colour illustration of bazaar by Rex Woods; Nice colour vintage Coke ad on back cover features picnic scene; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Fantastic colour-photo ad for Marboleum inside front cover shows 1930's bathroom with yellow fixtures; Editorial on Hitler's "Racism Gone Mad"; Attractive one-page colour ad for the new 1939 Plymouth features a blue four-door; News digest contains these headings - The Anti-British Outburst in Moscow; Incidentals of a Month; A 'National Unity' party; Trials of the Rowell Commission; A Summer's Books; Nostalgice one-page ad for the 1939 Dodge Six and Dodge De Luxe (orange); "North American Speaks English" - Bismarck said this was the most impressive thing in modern history - this photo-illustrated military article deals with the matter of the English-speaking North Americans joining in the impending war on the British side; More Fish in the Sea (short story); A Maker of Books (short story); Mace Webb (short story); Going to the Dogs - great photo-illustrated article on greyhound dog racing in England, with photo of General A.C. Critchley; Little Miss Hurricane (short story); Crossways House (short story); Murderers in the Football Stands - without the outlet of sports as a safety valce for his emotions the average human being would probably turn to murder, mayhem, arson and pillage(?); Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Movie news and photos of Gloria Blondell, Carole Lombard, Paulette Goddard, Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer; Lux soap ad features beautiful photos of Loretta Young; Woodbury's Cold Cream ad features photo of Danielle Darrieux; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; *Sensational* one-page colour-illustrated ad for Canadian apples shows little boy at top, different apples down left side, and cooked pie foods along bottom, with list of apple varieties and their ripening months; Where the Fashions Start (fashion article; Nice one-page two-colour ad for Heinz Soups says "The Tureen Tells Tales; Cosmetics article; World Sayings; "Serve Fish To Your Family" colour ad inside back cover; Old Dutch cleanser colour ad on back cover; and more. Bits of loss from corners of last page, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Special extra-long issue. Features: The Iron Chancellor, by George Sylvester Viereck; Bismarck The Great Progressive, by Dr. Bernhard Dernberg; Bismarck's Service to his Country, by Prof. William R. Shepherd; An Episode in the Career of the Iron Chancellor, John W. Burgess; Bismarck and the Present, by W.S. McNeill; Bismarck's Termperament, by Prof. William M. Sloane; Bismarck and the German-Americans, by Herman Ridder; Bismarck, by Thomas C. Hall; Bismarck and Militarism; Could Bismarck Have Hindered the War?, by Ferdinand Schevill; Bismarck and the EMS Dispatch, by A. Wilhelm Boesche; Bismarck, the German, by Dr. C.J. Hexamer; Bismarck and the Modern State, by Hermann Schoenfeld; Bismarck and To-Day, by Hugo Muensterberg; The Lesson of the Falaba; Mrs. Sinclair's Husband Explains; Bismarck in Granite, by Frederick F. Schrader; The Parcels Post and the Allies; Murder as a Fine Art; Romantic Belgium; Be Neutral, Mr. Lorimer; The Embargo on Arms - What is the Law?, by Dr. Edmund von Mach; The Military Situation; Bismarck and Modern Germany, by Prof. Albert B. Faust; In Memoriam, by O.J. Merkel; Dennis A. Spellissy; Patrick R. Griffin - Mayor of Hoboken; Joseph Frey; Rudolph Hering; Jeremiah A. O'Leary; Michael P. O'Connor; Bismarck and Universal Suffrage; David M. Neuberger; James Everard; Dudley Field Malone; Two-Color ad for Kaffee Hag coffee on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with plates, double-page map in the text and endpapers maps; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with an anchor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Vivid account of the chase by the well-known broadcaster (who served as a sub-lieutenant in TARTAR during the action). Particularly good on the resistance-sourced intelligence of BISMARCK's from Norway. Includes a bibliography. Enser, p.59; Law, 0251.
