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POOLE S.L.
Cruiser. A History of British Cruisers from 1889 to 1960.
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and tables in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Includes a summary history of most WWII actions in which cruisers (especially HMS Exeter) were involved. Law, 1026
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ROBERTS John
British Warships of the Second World War.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous detailed drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in NIP's recent 'Blueprint Series' in association with the National Maritime Museum
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RUBIRA Jose Claret
Classical European Furniture Design. 3 Volumes in 1. Encyclopedia of French [and Spanish and English] Furniture Designs.
Roy. 4to., First English Edition thus, with very numerous detailed illustrations in the text, page-edges very lightly browning; boards, cloth back gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SMITH Peter
Hard Lying. The Birth of the Destroyer 1893-1913.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. As usual with this author, a highly informative account. Covers the first twenty years of destroyer development, including pendant numbers and class tables.
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TALBOT-BOOTH Lieut.-Commander E.C.
Warship Identification. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with many hundreds of scaled silhouettes in the text; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The best and most comprehensive operational manual for the systematic coding and reporting of ship features.
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RAVEN Alan
British Cruisers of World War Two. THE STANDARD REFERENCE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrated title, and over 400 illustrations, plans and diagrams in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard reference, providing both a technical and operational review from 1912 to 1959. Detailed and profusely illustrated, it is increasingly elusive in any condition. Law, 1028.
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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY
Japanese Naval Vessels of World War Two as seen by US Naval Intelligence. Introduction by A. . Baker III.
Oblong 4to., with many hundreds of illustrations and drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Composite re-issue of US Division of Naval Intelligence Publications ONI 41-421 'Index to all Japanese Naval Vessels', ONI 41-42 'Japanese Naval Vessels', ONI 220J 'Japanese Submarines' and ONI 225J 'Japanese Landing Operations and Equipment' (1942-44). Uncommon.
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BROWN J.
Lanning Roper and his Gardens.
4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers, inscription on front free endpaper verso; green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly sunned at edges else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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KELLY J.
The First Flowering. Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; cloth, a near fine copy. Includes a checklist of Riverside Press editions
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JORDAN J.
French Battleships 1922-1956. [Second and Best English Edition].
4to., Second and Best Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous photographs , illustrations, plans and mas throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second and corrected version of the first UK edition of 2009. Detailed coverage of the French Navy's battleships of WWII: Dunkerque, Strasbourg, Richelieu, Jean Bart, Clemenceau and Gascogne.
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RAVEN Alan
British Battleships of World War Two. The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleships and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, over 600 photographs and diagrams (many full-page) in the text, and many finely detailed drawings (including 16 folding and 4 in colour depicting camouflage patterns); cloth, gilt back, a very good,clean copy in the dustwrapper. Lovely copy of a scarce standard reference updating and expanding Parkes. Includes many designs which never left the drawing board. Law, 1002 (recording the first edition of 1976).
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MOORE G.
Building for Victory. The Warship Building Programmes of the Royal Navy, 1939-1945.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. Comprehensive and detailed account of a fast-developing and necessarily flexible programme. Already very scarce, especially in this condition.
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CRACKNELL Commander W. H.
Warship Profile 36: United States Navy Monitors of the Civil War. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers moderately dust-soiled at extremities else a near fine copy. The first Warship Profile to depart from the series' 'traditional' timescale of post-Dreadnought vessels.
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BROWN David
Warship Profile 11: HMS Illustrious Aircraft Carrier 1939-1956. Operational History. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Law, 0958
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LYON David
Warship Profiles 10 and 11: HMS Illustrious Aircraft Carrier 1939-1956. Technical History [with] Operational History. ILLUSTRIOUS COMPLETE: NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set. Both titles of this well-known series are hard to find. Law, 0964, 0958 respectively.
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CHIHAYA Masataka
Warship Profile 30: IJN Yamato and Musashi. Battleships. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series.
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OOSTEN F.C. van
Warship Profile 40: Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship De Ruyter. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series. Law, 1570
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FRACCAROLI Lieut.-Commander Aldo
Warship Profile 17: RN Zara Heavy Cruiser 1929-1941. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers laminated at edges, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. One of the scarcest titles in this valuable and much sought-after series.
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HUMMELCHEN Dr. G.
Warship Profile 31: German Schnellboote (E-Boats). NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled at extremities else a very good, clean copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series. Law, 1654
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PHILBIN Tobias R.G.
Warship Profile 37: SMS Konig. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series.
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WINGATE John
Warship Profile 1: HMS Dreadnought. Battleship 1906-1920. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. One of the scarcest and most sought-after titles in this splendid series.
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BURTON Tom
Warship Profile 38: Abdiel-Class Fast Minelayers. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Perhaps the scarcest title in this valuable and much sought-after series. Law, 1015
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BREYER Siegfried
Battleships and Battle-Cruisers 1905-1970. With 922 Side Elevations, Deck Plans, Cross Sections and Detail Sketches including an Introduction: Historical Development of the Capital Ship. Translated by Alfred Kurti. [Second English Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Impression thus, with many hundreds of details illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial cloth blocked in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard reference first published in Munich in 1970 with the first English edition appearing three years later. Law 0993 (recording the first UK edition).
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WINGATE John
Warship Profile 4. HMS Belfast. In Trust for the Nation 1939-1972.
4to. First Edition with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good clean copy. This is the original Profile profusely illustrated and technically detailed. A much better account than his later Profile 29. Law 1038
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ENGLISH John
Obdurate to Daring. British Fleet Destroyers 1941-1945. FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. Second of the author's detailed accounts of British WWII destroyer classes and development, and a fitting sequel to 'Afridi to Nizam' . Includes service histories of 113 destroyers, with full vessel index and seven appendices detailing building dates and post-war conversions completed or proposed. VERY SCARCE.
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CHIHAYA Masataka
Warship Profile 12: IJN Kongo. Battleship 1912-1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy in original wrappers. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series.
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MARTIN (ed.) G.C. Sqdn.-Ldr.
Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules. The First 25 Years. 1967-1992. [Foreword by Gp. Cpt. D N Adams, Station Commander, RAF Lyneham]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and drawings throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With many trade advertisements. Contents includes history of RAF Lyneham, history of the aircraft, technical specifications (with cutaway drawings), squadron histories and accounts of Marshalls of Cambridge and Lockheed. Scarce.
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BROWN, ed. D. K.
The Design and Construction of British Warships 1939-1945. [Volume 3]. Landing Craft and Auxiliary Vessels. The Official Record. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs and technical drawings throughout; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BOND Edgar
Showcard Lay-Out and Design. (Fourth Edition). BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., Fourth Edition, with illustrations throughout; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in orange, backstrip dulled else a very good, bright, clean copoy. With numerous wonderful period examples. SCARCE.
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FOCK Harald
Fast Fighting Boats 1870-1945. Their Design, Construction and Use. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title, many hundreds of photographs and detailed drawings in the text, and pictorial endpapers, neat signature on front free endpaper; ochre cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference first published in Germany in 1973. Covers all navies which developed such craft; predictable emphasis on German vessels. Law, 1768
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RUGE Friedrich
Warship Profile 14: SMS Seydlitz. Grosser Kreuzer 1913-1919. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Profile's 'Warship' series, no.14. One of the scarcest titles in this valuable and much sought-after series.
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WINGATE John
Warship Profile 'Special' 29: HMS Belfast. Edinburgh Class Cruiser 1939-71. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. This is the original Profile, published as a 'special' to coincide with BELFAST's arrival as a museum ship in the Pool of London. Law, 1037.
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CRACKNELL Commander William H.
Warship Profile 28: USS Indianapolis (CA 35). Heavy Cruiser 1932-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Law, 1060.
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BIDLINGMAIER Gerhard
Warship Profile 4: KM Admiral Graf Spee. Pocket Battleship 1932-1939. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series. Law, 1670.
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[SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN]
Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1946/1947. Revue de la Publicite et des Arts Graphiques en Suisse. Edited by Maurice Collet. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page and mounted); pictorial wrappers, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled, fore-edges lightly browned else a good, firm copy. Valuable annual survey of printed graphic design in Switzerland. Includes essays by Tschichold, Wenger, Neubold and others.
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BOWMAN Martin
Wellington. The Geodetic Giant. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CRACKNELL Commander W.H.
Warship Profile 15. USS Enterprise (CVAN-65). Nuclear Attack Carrier. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy.
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JENKINS Commander C.A.
Warship Profiles 23 and 24: HMS Furious Aircraft Carrier 1917-1948. HMS Furious. Aircraft Carrier 1917-1948. Part 1: The First Eight Years [with] Warship Profile 24. HMS Furious. Aircraft Carrier 1917-1948. Part 2: 1925-1948. FURIOUS COMPLETE: NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set. Law 0963.
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STEPHENSON C.
A Text Book dealing with Ornamental Design for Woven Fabrics. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous plates and diagrams in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; decorative green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in pale green and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LYON David
Warship Profile 2: HMS Cossack. Tribal Class Destroyer. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Probably the scarcest title in this splendid series.
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TARRANT V. E.
King George V Class Battleships. FINE COPY OF THE PAPERBACK ISSUE
8vo., with numerous photographs and drawings throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The first dedicated monograph on this famous class, comprising ANSON, DUKE OF YORK, HOWE, KING GEORGE V, PRINCE OF WALES. Includes detailed service histories covering between them virtually every naval theatre of WWII.
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BASSETT Ronald
Battle-Cruisers. A History 1908-48. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8, and 9 detailed drawings of plans and elevations and 7 maps (1 double-page and 6 full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference covering the sixteen RN, RAN and RNZN vessels of this category: HMSs INVINCIBLE, INFLEXIBLE, INDOMITABLE, INDEFATIGABLE, LION, QUEEN MARY, PRINCESS ROYAL, TIGER, RENOWN, REPULSE, FURIOUS, COURAGEOUS, GLORIOUS, HOOD, HMAS AUSTRALIA and HMNZS NEW ZEALAND. Law, 0981.
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RAVEN, Alan
Man o' War 1-7. [THE SERIES COMPLETE.]. County Class Cruisers [with] V and W Class Destroyers [with] Battleships Rodney and Nelson [with] Hunt Class Escort Destroyers [with] Town Class Cruisers [with] Hood [with] Flower Class Corvettes. COMPLETE SET IN NEAR FINE STATE
7 vols., 4to., First Edition, each volume with large double-page gatefold coloured plates (bearing numerous detailed line diagrams), and very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, laminated as issued, covers a little browned else a near fine set. The series comprises: 1: County Class Cruisers (Raven & Roberts, 1979); 2: V and W Class Destroyers (Raven and Roberts, 1979); 3: Battleships Rodney and Nelson (Raven and Roberts, 1979); 4: Hunt Class Escort Destroyers (Raven and Roberts, 1981); 5: Town Class Cruisers (Raven and Roberts, 1980); 6: Hood (Northcott, 1981); 7: Flower Class Corvettes (Preston and Raven, 1982). Full set of this outstanding series compiled and illustrated by some the leading warship historians of their generation. Each volume provides a detailed technical and operational history with valuable photographs and excellent illustrations depicting camouflage and colour schemes. Essentially a successor to Bivouac's Ensign series and forerunner of Conway's later 'Anatomy of the Ship' series. No. 5 was first published as Ensign 5 (1975); No. 6 as an Ensign Special (1975); No. 7 as Ensign 3 (1973). ALL VOLUMES ARE INCREASINGLY UNCOMMON, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. Law, 1029, 1070, 1000, 1069, 1030, 0986, 1011 respectively.
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PRESTON, ed. Antony
Warship. Volume 1. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bound volume collecting Nos. 1-4 of this valuable series.
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PRESTON, ed. Antony
Warship. Volume II. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bound volume collecting Nos. 5-8 of this valuable series.
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ROBERTS, ed. John
Warship. Volume III. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bound volume collecting Nos. 9-12 of this valuable series.
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LAMBERT, ed. Andrew
Warship. Volume IX. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Bound volume collecting Nos. 33-36 of this valuable series.
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FRIEDMAN Norman
Battleship Design and Development 1905-1945. Drawings by John Roberts. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Technical appreciation of the ability of designers to meet the demands of both politicians and admirals. SCARCE. Law 1769.
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FRIEDMAN Norman
US Battleships. An Illustrated Design History. Ship Plans by Alan Raven and A. D. Baker III. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DICKENS Captain Peter
Warship Profile 20: HMS Hesperus. Ex-Brazilian 'H'-Class Destroyer.. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with double-page spread of coloured illustrations and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers laminated at edges, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The ex-Brazilian 'H-class' destroyers featured heavily in the Atlantic. Law, 1049.
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