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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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Friedman, Norman
Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era
South Yorkshire Seaforth Publishing 2008 1844157016 / 9781844157013 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 319pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, drawings, black and white photographs. Blue boards, slight edge rubbing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. 'Signed Copy' label to front of wrapper, signed 'With Best Wishes, Norman Friedman' to title page. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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75.00 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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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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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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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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