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Ballard, Admiral GA (Foreword By Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma)
The Black Battlefleet: A Study of the Capital Ship in Transition
U.S.A. Naval Institute Press 1980 0870219243 / 9780870219245 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 263pp, indexes, footnotes, 7 appendices, over 200 black and white photographs, plans, draughts and diagrams. Orange boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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24.00 GBP
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Ballard, Admiral GA (Foreword By Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma)
The Black Battlefleet: A Study of the Capital Ship in Transition
Hampshire Nautical Publishing Company 1980 0870219243 / 9780870219245 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 263pp, indexes, footnotes, 7 appendices, over 200 black and white photographs, plans, draughts and diagrams. Orange boards, slight foxing to edges, light wear only, a VG copy in (corner rubs, spine fading) dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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22.00 GBP
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Chatterton, E. Keble
'Q' Ships and Their Story
London Conway Maritime Press Ltd 1972 085177055X / 9780851770550 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xii + 276pp, index, 45 illustrations, 16 diagrams etc., in text. Red boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. 1st Conway edition, originally published in 1922. A super copy. Q ship operations in WW1 against the German U-boat threat.
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25.00 GBP
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Davies, William
The Sea and the Sand: The Story of H.M.S. Tara and the Western Desert Force
Caernarvon Gwynedd Archives and Museums Service 1988 090133748X / 9780901337481 First Edition Soft Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 46pp, appendix, references, maps, plan, black and white photographs. Large softback, small area of surface loss to fron t cover (most of the word 'The' is missing), short edge tear to top, a few marks, contents are clean, tight and VG. Overall a Good working copy only. The story of the Western Desert Campaign in late 1915 and early 1916 featuring 2 former L.N.W.R. ships requisitioned by the Admiralty, HMS Tara and HMS Scotia.
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12.00 GBP
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Howden, JR
The Boys' Book of Warships
London Grant Richards Ltd 1911 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket (Pictorial Boards) 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xvii + 297pp, index, 109 photographs plus coloured frontispiece from a painting by Norman Wilkinson. Illustrated coloured boards, light wear only, general light foxing to contents, owner's details to front endpaper, overall a VG clean tight copy. Scarce.
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20.00 GBP
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Introduction By Norman Friedman
German Warships of World War One (1, I): The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines and Small Craft 1914 - 1918
London Greenhill Books 1992 1853671231 / 9781853671234 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 416pp, index, illustrated throughout with photographs, silhouettes and drawings, technical details. Black boards, light wear only, small seller's label to front endpaper, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Invaluable reference for the historian and modeller alike. Heavy book, extra shipping required to non-UK address.
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30.00 GBP
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Muhlhauser, GHP
On Active Service Series: Small Craft
London John Lane the Bodley Head Limited 1920 First Edition Hard Cover Good+ No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall xiv + 268pp, 44 illustrations. Brown blind-stamped boards, general light wear, foxing mainly to edges and endpapers. Fascinating signed letter from the author, from Fiji, dated 23-8-21, affixed to front envelope, the envelope opposite on front pastedown. At war in WW1 on the 'Zarefah' and 'Sagitta'
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Pelly, Admiral Sir Henry
300,000 Sea Miles: An Autobiography
London Chatto & Windus 1938 First Edition Hard Cover Good+ No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xi + 223pp, 9 plates. Blue boards, gilt titling to spine and signature to front board. Top edges blue. Dated owner's details to front pastedown, 2 neat annotations (one adding the name of an anonymous captain, the other at the rear giving details of Admiral Pelly's death), 2 small newspaper cuttings pasted to the base of page 93 detailing the death of Admiral Pelly's widow. Foxing mainly to page edges, Overall a near VG tight copy without dustwrapper. Scarce. Contents cover:- The Far East; The West Indies; The South Seas; The Royal Yachts; The Channel and the Mediterranean; More or Less a Civilian; HMS Tiger - First Year; HMS Tiger - Second Year; Portsmouth; Egypt and the Red Sea; Gibraltar. Pelly commanded HMS Tiger through actions at Dogger Bank and Jutland. Very scarce.
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100.00 GBP
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Preston, Antony (Editor)
Volume XXV: Warship 2002 - 2003
London Conway Maritime Press Ltd 2003 0851779263 / 9780851779263 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 202pp, index, drawings, black and white photographs. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in (slight browning to spine) dustwrapper. 8 feature articles covering:- The Riddle of the Shells: The Approach to War 1882-1914; The Aircraft Transport Commandant Teste; The 'Battle' Class Destroyers; German Motor Minesweepers at War 1939-1945; The Admiralty Fire Control Tables; Armstrongs and the Italian Navy; An Argentinian Naval Buildup in the Disarmament Era: The Naval Procurement Act of 1926; Defeat in the Atlantic?: Anti-submarine Warfare 1917-1919.
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38.00 GBP
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Ruge, Professor F
Warship Profile 27: SM Torpedo Boat B110
Berkshire Profile Publications Ltd 1972 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 24pp, black and white photographs, 2pp centrefold drawings showing top and side profile views in colour, map. Booklet, a VG clean tight copy, an excellent reference for the ship modeller.
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15.00 GBP
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Wallace, Major Claude (Late 14th Hussars, Lancashire Fusiliers and G.S.O.3 32nd Division)
From Jungle to Jutland
London Nisbet & Co Ltd 1932 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xi + 343pp, index, 21 illustrations. Blue boards, fading to spine and adjacent edges, backstrip is split along rear joint for about 10cm in the centre, so remains quite secure, but with some loose thread. Some foxing to contents, overall a Good solid copy with the main faults as noted. No dustwrapper. Signed gift dedication from the author, under his portrait frontispiece, which reads:- 'To My Dear Friend Eric Rose, With Kindest Remembrance, Claude Wallace'. Scarce signed copy. Memories and experiences in Liberia, Congo, Angola plus the Battle of Jutland. Includes a section on the Pointe Noire-Loudima Railway.
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40.00 GBP
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Watts, Anthony J.
The Imperial Russian Navy
London Arms and Armour Press 1990 0853689121 / 9780853689126 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 192pp, index, appendices, illustrated, bibliography. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Contents include a general history of the Imperial Navy, plus chapters on capital ships; cruisers; coast defence ships; gunboats; destroyers; torpedo boats; submarines; mine warfare ships; seaplane carriers and miscellaneous warships. Extremely scarce.
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300.00 GBP
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