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195 pages. Circa 1982. Chapters include: The First Inhabitants, The Parkland Beckons, Glidehurst District, The Search for Oil, Discovery, Atlantic No. 3, Birth of a Model Town, The Formative Years, Churches - A Part of the Plan, Schools, Recreational Facilities, Early Memories, Clubs and Organizations, Sports - a way of life, Special Celebrations, Devon in the Eighties, By Our Own Account. Many black and white photos. Front board nicely decorated with gilt. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Roma, Stabilimento Tip. del Giornale d'Italia, [1949], in-8 stretto, br. editoriale, pp. 7, [1]. Con ritratto fotografico di De Gasperi. Aloni da polvere sulla copertina anteriore.
1°ed. (Saggi e inchieste).<BR>16°, pp. 193 (7). Ottima mz. perg. con ang., tass. in pelle con tit. oro al dorso. Indice: Gli incunaboli dell'atlantismo; La lenta usura dei fatti; La politica atlantica; La grande crisi.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, initials on inside front cover; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. This classic work was first published by Macmillan in the previous year. The author was awarded the Glenfiddich Book Author of the Year (Food)
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; library binding of laminated boards preserving front and rear panels of dustwrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution in its binding with label trace on front free endpaper and cancelled stamp on title. This classic work was first published by Macmillan in the previous year. The author was awarded the Glenfiddich Book Author of the Year (Food) as a result
Verona, 1996, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 47/60 con 11 grafici, una cartina e 4 illustrazioni. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 8; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated account of Somerville's legendary Force H, a fighting unit almost constantly in action between June 1940 and November 1941. Charged with maintaining the Navy's command of two theatres, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, during a crucial period, its best-known actions were the disabling of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, the pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck and the supply of fighter aircraft to the beleagued fortress of Malta.
Collana: Il Cammeo, settembre 1964. Traduzione di Elsa Pelitti. Venti illustrazioni fuori testo. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
Milano, 1949, 14 agosto, copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo di, pp. 16 de “Illustrazione del Popolo" .
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
36 pages. Densely packed with text and a multitude of marvelous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Includes: Color reproductions of two antique transfers and a ticket; The Mousam River Railroad; Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway; Portsmouth, Kittery & York Street Railway; Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway; Atlantic Shore Line Railway; York Utilities Company; Seashore Electric Railway; Tables of rolling stock; Route map inside back cover; Facsimile stock certificate on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this informative work. Book
ill. Diventa un libro fotografico ed un e-book il blog di navigazione di un velista ingegnere palermitano, Fulvio Croce, partito a vela nel 2012 con il suo Sun Fast 43 da Mondello, Palermo, rotta verso l'Atlantico sino al mar dei Caraibi, in procinto adesso di attraversare il canale di Panama e proseguire oltre, rispondendo ad un richiamo irresistibile. 10.000 miglia di navigazione in due anni, una traversata atlantica vissuta in diretta, nei dettagli, un'organizzazione meticolosa e delicati aspetti psicologici legati alle responsabilità del Comandante con a bordo in equipaggio anche la figlia 26enne. Nelle 100 pagine una selezione di foto emblematiche dell'autore, le sensazioni della traversata, della scoperta, della vita di bordo e delle escursioni a terra tra le 100 isole dei Caraibi con uno stile da web, semplice e accattivante, anni di pura felicità spinti dagli alisei, tra popoli diversi, navigatori solitari divenuti amici e natura lussureggiante, spesso in compagnia dei tanti amici e velisti che lo hanno raggiunto a bordo, seguendolo in questa avventura tra le Piccole e le Grandi Antille, fino a Cuba, Giamaica e alle isole San Blas di Panama.
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
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 16 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Astonishingly, this is the sole history to date of the main base of the Royal Navy's Atlantic fleet of both world wars. Good coverage of the scuttling and salvage of the German High Seas Fleet after WWI, and of the Royal Oak disaster in the early days of WWII. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.322; Law 1398.
P., Bernardin-Bechet coll. "les champions", 1928. In-12 carré, broché, 63 pp. dont 16 pp. d'illustrations photographiques. Edité en 1928 et rejaqueté avec mention 2 Fr sur la couverture. Quelques points de rousseurs sur la tranche. rare
CHATEAUBRIANT, Syndicat d'Initiative - 1976 - Ouvrage réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition "Le vieux Chateaubriant par l'image" - In-4 - Reliure toile éditeur avec titre au dos et sur le 1er plat - Très nombreuses illustrations NB HT avec texte en regard sur page de gauche, plans - 381 pages - PropreC JOINT : Documents et lettresintéresant chateaubriant & C. Corcuff Envoi de l'auteur : "Au Docteur Charles Corcuff, pour saluer la mémoire et la présence du Commandant de gendarmerie Charles Corcuff et du si délicat érudit A.L. Harmois, son ami. En signe de très cordial hommage à un breton passionné qui reste attaché à cette capitale bien modeste du Pays de la Mée. Chateaubriant 24 juin 1978."
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured folding frontispiece, 5 coloured plates, 35 plates in monochrome, 16 coloured plates of house funnel colours and 30pp of ships drawn in outline, fore-edges lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, case a little bruised, joints mildly rubbed else a good, sound copy. Sold with a small quantity of relevant ephemera, including several pages of ship's photographs.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Fine. Oblong large 4to. (24 x 35 cm). [1], 208 p. 1 folding plate. B/w ills. Nato çalismalari.
8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. First dedicated history of the seventy-eight vessels of this class (built in the US as Buckley or Evarts classes). The work itself is arranged by Escort Group (with which most of the class served) with some useful photographs both of ships and individuals. Includes a bibliography, and a valuable roll of the class with DE hull no., RN pennant no., origin of name, CO(s) and Escort Group attachments
320p. + Plus full page illustrations. Map endpapers. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. First edition. WWIIA/1
8vo., First Edition, with 11 plates on 8, front endpaper maps and rear endpaper diagram; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The most detailed separately published account of the 'greatest amateur spy operation of all time' - the work of French patriots in penetrating and passing to the Allies, in the two years before D-Day, the secrets of Hitler's Atlantic Wall in Normandy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.370.
LE POULIGUEN, Syndicat d'Initiaves / LA BAULE, S.E.P. La Mouette - 1933 - In-12 - Broché - Cartes, illustrations HT - 63 pages - Très propre
BANNALEC, Imp. Régionale - 1990 - In 8 - Broché - Illustrations en texte - 213 pages. - Bel exemplaire
Editeur l'Albaron, Société Présence du livre -1991 - In-8 -Broché - couverture illustrée - Illustrations en & H.T. - 358 pages - Comme neuf - - Envoi rapide et soigné
