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112 pages. Features: The Uranus/Neptune Infusion for Spiritual Magnification; It's Time to Claim Your Magnificence; Human Predatory Impulses Have Been Activated; Dancing with My Dad - a guide to lucid dreaming; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, boards lightly age-faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The story of the Gooseberries or blockships used in the Mulberry Harbours during D-Day, told by the naval OIC. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.384; Law 0587.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, maps and diagrams in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps, four leaves poorly opened at upper margin, page-edges very lightly browned as usual; cloth, gilt back, a very good, firm copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY TUTE, COSTELLO AND HUGHES ON A BOOKPLATE AFFIXED TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Excellent overall survey by three acclaimed naval and military historians. Published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the landings, the strong and deceptively detailed text is supported by a wealth of well-chosen and captioned photographs. It was the first major publication to utilise recently declassified official records, and also includes numerous eye-witness accounts. Material signed by Costello in particular is very scarce.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Book has been re-bound by the library into very strong hardback boards that show very little wear, interior/text is mostly clean with underlining on two pages only, a 1/2" closed tear on another page, otherwise clean and neat. 119 pages, lots of maps, many full-page b&w photos, index. Volume I in the series.
16 pages. Features: Why I Believe - Wernher von Braun talks about science and God; A Funny Thing Happened in North Conway, New Hampshire - for 45 hours the town decided to live without time - includes photos of Ray Walker, Mrs. Peter Pinkham, Carol Gaudette and Mrs. Lawrence Sherman; Nine-Year-Old Timmy Walsh recovers from terrible burns suffered in Neptune, New Jersey; Dutch Treat - Charlie Rice writes of his time in Amsterdam, with photo of woman police officer "Greet" Berenschot; Gourmet Bachelor - Chicago's Ed Johnson swaps his summer special recipes; 3/4 page ad for the LBJ Barbecue (BBQ) Cook Book features nice photo of Walter Jetton, caterer to the LBJ ranch; Zipcode USA - Teen Q&A includes photo of Bobby Vinton being mobbed by fans; Nice Mother Goose cartoons by Oldden. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Wartime service on a typically hard-worked B-Class destroyer. Includes West African convoys, Scharnhorst, Normandy, and Arctic convoys.
8vo., First Edition thus, with 12 photographs and 12 maps; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Photocopy facsimiles of the original edition of 1956. Covers the three major airborne operations in NW Europe during World War II: NEPTUNE (D-Day), MARKET GARDEN (Arnhem) and VARSITY (Rhine Crossing). Well illustrated and with much statistical detail of troops and transports.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text, and a folding plan; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Detailed and valuable account of the minesweeping component of Operation NEPTUNE by the founder of the Algerines Association. The narrative structure includes much eye-witness and other vernacular material not available elsewhere. An excellent contribution to a still largely forgotten (and largely thankless) aspect of the RN's operations in WWII. VERY SCARCE.
Very detailed account of the situation prior to and the assault on German held Europe in World War II and of the final collapse of Hitler's Germany. With a nice frontispiece picture of the brylcreamed author holding a pipe. Also numerous maps. Appendices and Index. Dust jacket has small loss at top of spine, corners and edges.
