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The Influence of the Sea on the Political History of Japan

By: Ballard, Vice-Admiral GA

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1921

Seller ID: 032538

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

xix + 311pp, folding map to rear, index, 2 appendices, 9 illustrations. Gilt on blue boards, slight fraying with small loss to spine head, edge rubs, booksellers label and notes to front pastedown, contemporary signature to front endpaper, general foxing, light pencilled annotation, rear hinge repaired, overall a Good original copy, no dustwrapper.
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Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon

By: Branfill-Cook, Roger

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 031992

ISBN: 1848322151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

256pp, index, appendix, bibliography, black and white photographs, drawings. Blue boards, new copy in dustwrapper. RRP 35.
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Battleships of the Grand Fleet: A Pictorial Review of the Royal Navy's Capital Ships in World War One

By: Burt, R. A. / Trotter, W. P.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour Press: 1982

Seller ID: 020106

ISBN: 0853685630

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, captioned black and white photographs throughout. Large format softback, general light reading wear, a VG clean tight copy.
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Danger Zone: The Story of the Queenstown Command

By: Chatterton, E Keble

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Rich & Cowan: 1936

Seller ID: 030252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

437pp, index, endpaper maps, 2 appendices, 3 maps, 50 illustrations. Blue cloth boards, slight edge rubbing, minor marks, general light foxing to contents, overall a Good+ copy. The story of the defence of the Western Approaches in WW1.
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British and German Battlecruisers: Their Development and Operations

By: Cosentino, Michele / Stanglini, Ruggero

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing: 2016

Seller ID: 031942

ISBN: 1848321848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

276pp, index, bibliography, appendix, maps, drawings and photographs, some colour. Grey boards, a new copy in dustwrapper, RRP 40.00. Excellent reference for historians and ship modellers.
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Fast Fighting Boats 1870 - 1945: Their Design, Construction and Use

By: Fock, Harald

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Hampshire, Nautical Publishing Company: 1978

Seller ID: 030633

ISBN: 0245528636

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

304pp, 212 photographs, 167 drawings, bibliography, tables, Green cloth boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. This book covers the design, construction and use of small fast fighting craft of all navies, capable of greater than 18 knots. Includes British Motor Gun Boats. Useful reference for the ship modeller.
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The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734 - 1995: A Biographical Dictionary

By: Heathcote, TA / With a Foreword By Admiral Sir Michael Boyce

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 2002

Seller ID: 032415

ISBN: 0850528356

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 338pp, index, bibliography, catalogue of the ships, seniority list of the admirals of the fleet, 18 plates. Blue boards, light ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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The Boys' Book of Warships

By: Howden, JR

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Grant Richards Ltd: 1911

Seller ID: 016843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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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The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day. Volumes I and II (2 Volume Set)

By: Jane, Fred T

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Tri-Service Press: 1990

Seller ID: 030222

ISBN: 1854880314

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

2 volume set. Volume I: ISBN 1854880314. xvi + 332pp, glossary, drawings and illustrations. Volume II: ISBN 1854880373. viii + 288pp, index, drawings and illustrations/ Both volumes black boards, gilt titling, spines very slightly dulled, binding flaw to Volume I affecting inner upper corner of the final pages (corner corners bent back, book sits squarely), so near VG copies without dustwrappers. This is the 1990 reprint of the 2 volume 1915 revised edition, without the original colour plates which the publishers state could not be reproduced.
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Battleground Europe: Fromelles: French Flanders

By: Pederson, Peter

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 2004

Seller ID: 030140

ISBN: 085052928X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, indexes, bibliography, photographs, maps. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. Personalised gift dedication from the author to title page, plus a loose letter from the author to the same recipient, thanking him for assistance with the writing of the book.
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Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval Orders and the Prosperity of the Clyde Shipbuilding Industry, 1889 - 1939

By: Peebles, Hugh B

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Donald Publishers Ltd: 1987

Seller ID: 030218

ISBN: 0859761932

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

205pp, index, 5 appendices, bibliography, map. Black boards, bumping to lower front corners, minor marks, overall a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Anatomy of the Ship: The Battleship Dreadnought

By: Roberts, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd: 1992

Seller ID: 031610

ISBN: 0851776000

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256pp, extensive drawings in 11 sections, black and white photographs, technical data, history. Grey boards, bump to lower front corner, slightly to adjacent pages, minor edge marks, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. Excellent reference for the ship modeller.
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Voices in Flight: The Royal Naval Air Services During the Great War

By: Smith, Malcolm / Foreword By Graham Mottram

Price: £8.99

Publisher: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Aviation: 2014

Seller ID: 031730

ISBN: 178346383X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

xiv + 220pp, indexes, 16pp plates. Black boards, new copy in dustwrapper. RRP £25.00
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75th Anniversary R.N.V.R., R.N.R. 1903 - 1978

By: Thornton, Lt Cdr WM

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Lt Cdr WM Thornton: 1978

Seller ID: 031800

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

106pp, illustrated. Large format softback, light wear and ageing only, overall a VG clean tight copy. Covers all main units and formations of the RNVR/RNR.
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From Jungle to Jutland

By: Wallace, Major Claude (Late 14th Hussars, Lancashire Fusiliers and G.S.O.3 32nd Division)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Nisbet & Co Ltd: 1932

Seller ID: 019292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

xi + 343pp, index, 21 illustrations. Blue boards, fading to spine and adjacent edges, backstrip (spine) is detached along the whole of the rear hinge but still firmly attached at the front, some loose threads. Some foxing to contents, overall a Fair 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 Noir...
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A Text Book of Naval Architecture for the Use of Officers of the Royal Navy.

By: Welch, JJ

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, HMSO: 1891

Seller ID: 022531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

167pp, index, 133 drawings, 18 plates, most folding. Blue boards, rubs to edges and corners, 2 short edge splits, bumping to corners. Foxing to contents, small loss to edges of some plates, some folded slightly offset, some pencilled annotation (mainly lines adjacent to text), overall a Good tight copy of the scarce 1st edition.
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Great Britain and the German Navy

By: Woodward, EL

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Frank Cass and Co Ltd: 1964

Seller ID: 031953

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

524pp, index, 7 appendices. Brown cloth boards, light ageing, a VG copy in a Good+ (price-clipped, slight edge-chipping with small loss) dustwrapper. This is the new impression (1964) of the first edition (1935).
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Hearts of Steel: The Warship Paintings of Paul Wright

By: Wright, Paul

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Somerset, Halstar: 2009

Seller ID: 032021

ISBN: 1906690057

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

136pp, bibliography, paintings fully illustrated in colour plus preliminary pencil sketches in black and white at rear. Blue cloth boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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