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FLEET AIR ARM
Flight Deck Vol. I. No. 3. October 1944. [Foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Denis Boyd, Fifth Sea Lord]. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. ''Flight Deck' is a restricted publication. It is for official use only.' This issue includes a profile of 819 Squadron flying Swordfish. ALL WARTIME ISSUES ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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[ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH]
Greenwich Palace. A History of what is now the Royal Naval College and the National Maritime Museum, from earliest Times to 1939 BRIGHT COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original puctorial wrappers, upper cover printed in blue and black, yapped edges, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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NETHERCOATE-BRYANT et al Keith
More Submarine Memories. Some More Lesser Known Facts from the Gatwick Submarine Archive. FINE COPY
8vo. First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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EDWARDS Kenneth
The Navy of To-Day. Revised by B. Webster Smith. [Revised Edition. With a Foreword by Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt.] IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Revised Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, wanting front free endpaper; navy cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Updated version of the original edition of 1939. Useful for understanding how the RN was presented to the British public during WWII. Law 0633.
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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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MCMURTRIE Francis E
Ships of the Royal Navy. with Forces of British Dominions overseas. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, upper board framed and lettered in black, case lightly shaken else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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KERR J. Lennox
Wavy Navy. By Some who served. With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With small personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Twenty-eight accounts of RNVR service, both routine and action, by serving members. Uncommon in this condition. Law, 1807
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FUKUI Shizuo
Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II. With a Foreword by John B. Lundstrom. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and tables in the text; green boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WILLMOTT H.P.
Grave of a Dozen Schemes. British Naval Planning and the War against Japan, 1943-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, red cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WYLLIE W.L
Sea Fights of the Great War. Naval Incidents during the First Nine Months. [Second Impression]. FIRM, CLEAN COPY
4to., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 26 plates in monochrome and 9 plans; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, boards and backstrip moderately sunned (but all lettering entirely legible) else a firm, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition.
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GIBSON Langhorne
The Riddle of Jutland, An Authentic History. With an Introduction by Sir Archibald Hurd. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 14 folding charts in pocket at end, some mild offsetting to front free endpaper, signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, boards lightly age-marked and soled else good, bright, clean copy. American journalist Langhorne Gibson provides a lively (if sometimes apparently unfeeling) recounting of the action, supported by the largely pro-Jellicoe findings of Harper's board of enquiry. Arguably the best chronological account prior to Marder some thirty years later. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.271; Enser, p.186
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CHRIS BEETLES.
W.L. Wyllie and L'Entente Cordiale. [Catalogue of an Exhibition]. 2 June - 1 July 1988. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Includes introductory essays.
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WOODWARD David
The Russians at Sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text, neat short inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROSS Al
Anatomy of the Ship. The Destroyer Escort England. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Conway's outstanding Anatomy of the Ship series.
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ROSS Al
Anatomy of the Ship. The Destroyer Campbeltown. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations and detailed drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Conway's valuable 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring pobably the most detail drawings ever produced for historical naval publications. Includes full descriptions of the alterations effected for her role as blockship at St. Nazaire
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LOW Charles Rathbone
History of the Indian Navy 1613-1863. BRIGHT SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers mildly browned; publisher's navy cloth, gilt backs, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled, backstrips faded to brown, small pulls at extreme headbands else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume III. Part I: Text; Part II: Maps. [The Dardanelles to Jutland]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH SET
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 46 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, a good, clean set. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume II. [To the Dardanelles]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual but discreet markings. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume I. To the Battle of the Falklands, December 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 18 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual but discreet markings. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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WALLIS R. Ransome
Two Red Stripes. A Naval Surgeon at War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served on LONDON from 1941-1942. After a spell hunting German supply ships in the South Atlantic, she spent most of her time on the northern patrols and Arctic convoys. Enser, p.261; Law 1035.
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MONSARRAT Nicholas
[His WWII Chronicles and the basis of 'The Cruel Sea' complete]. Comprising 'HM Corvette' [with] 'East Coast Corvette' [with] 'Corvette Command' [with] 'HM Frigate'. COMPLETE WWII ['CRUEL SEA'] CHRONICLES IN FULL MOROCCO
4 vols., in 1, 8vo., First Editions, with frontispieces and plates; newly and handsomely bound in full navy blue crushed morocco, sides with double frame border in gilt, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt with an anchor device, all original pictorial wrappers (a little dust-soiled) preserved, a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The definitive record of corvette service in WWII, the set comprises 'HM Corvette' (1942), 'East Coast Corvette' (1943), 'Corvette Command' (1944) and 'HM Frigate' (1946). The first three volumes were combined and issued in slightly abridged form as 'Three Corvettes' (1945). Taken together and in sequence the four volumes provide a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's own wartime service. Furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents which reappear in the author's masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea' (1951), arguably the finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWII. Monsarrat's seatime began in HMS Campanula [broadly the 'HMS Flower' of the first volume] on the North Atlantic convoys; at one time she was the only RN vessel operating out of St. Johns. She is perhaps best known for her service in convoy OG71 (Milford Haven-Gibraltar, August 1941) which suffered so badly at the hands of a U-boat pack that it was ordered to seek shelter in neutral Lisbon. Many of the merchantmen were lost (including the SS Aquila with 22 Wrens aboard) together with the escorts HMS Bath and HMS Zinnia. The full story is related by Lund and Ludlam in 'Nightmare Convoy' (1987). He then transferred to HMS Guillemot ['HMS Dipper' in the second volume] serving on the East Coast convoys. Among the actions portrayed are the torpedoing of HMS Vortigern by E-boat S-104, and the successful destruction of an HE-111 in August 1941. HMS Guillemot's captain, Lombard-Hobson' has said of Monsarrat 'he was reserved and unpopular, but I liked him myself'. Monsarrat then assumed command of HMS Shearwater ['HMS Winger' in the third volume] operating in the North Sea out of Harwich. Individual volumes are becoming increasingly elusive. Complete sets are seldom offered for sale, especially in this condition. Enser, p.120 (HM Corvette); Law 1008 (East Coast Corvette), 1007 (Corvette Command) and 1084 (HM Frigate). Astonishingly 'HM Corvette' is not recorded by Law.
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MONSARRAT Nicholas
The Cruel Sea [with] 'WWII Chronicles'. The Chronicles comprising 'HM Corvette' [with] 'East Coast Corvette' [with] 'Corvette Command' [with] 'HM Frigate'. 'THE CRUEL SEA' AND ITS FORMATIVE CHRONICLES COMPLETE
5 works in 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and plates; newly and handsomely bound in full navy blue crushed morocco, sides with double frame borders in gilt, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt with an anchor device, all original pictorial wrappers (a little dust-soiled) preserved, a splendid set ideal as a gift or for presentation. The finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWII and a maritime classic. The story, based upon the author's own experiences [see 'Chronicles' below] , forms the basis of Charles Frend's notable feature film starring Jack Hawkins in one of his most memorable roles. So accurate is its depiction of the Battle of the Atlantic that it is one of the very few works of fiction admitted by Law to his standard bibliography 'The Royal Navy in World War Two'. Law, 1865. Monsarrat's 'WWII Chronicles', arguably the definitive record of corvette service in WWII, are the basis of the novel. The set comprises 'HM Corvette' (1942), 'East Coast Corvette' (1943), 'Corvette Command' (1944) and 'HM Frigate' (1946). The first three volumes were combined and issued in slightly abridged form as 'Three Corvettes' (1945). Taken together and in sequence the four volumes provide a near-continuous record of Monsarrat's own wartime service. Furthermore they contain much of the inspiration and context, and in several cases actual incidents which reappear in the author's masterpiece 'The Cruel Sea' (1951), arguably the finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWII. Monsarrat's seatime began in HMS Campanula [broadly the 'HMS Flower' of the first volume] on the North Atlantic convoys; at one time she was the only RN vessel operating out of St. Johns. She is perhaps best known for her service in convoy OG71 (Milford Haven-Gibraltar, August 1941) which suffered so badly at the hands of a U-boat pack that it was ordered to seek shelter in neutral Lisbon. Many of the merchantmen were lost (including the SS Aquila with 22 Wrens aboard) together with the escorts HMS Bath and HMS Zinnia. The full story is related by Lund and Ludlam in 'Nightmare Convoy' (1987). He then transferred to HMS Guillemot ['HMS Dipper' in the second volume] serving on the East Coast convoys. Among the actions portrayed are the torpedoing of HMS Vortigern by E-boat S-104, and the successful destruction of an HE-111 in August 1941. HMS Guillemot's captain, Lombard-Hobson' has said of Monsarrat 'he was reserved and unpopular, but I liked him myself'. Monsarrat then assumed command of HMS Shearwater ['HMS Winger' in the third volume] operating in the North Sea out of Harwich. Individual volumes are becoming increasingly elusive. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.120 (HM Corvette); Law 1008 (East Coast Corvette), 1007 (Corvette Command) and 1084 (HM Frigate). Astonishingly 'HM Corvette' is not recorded by Law.
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BROMLEY (ed.) J.S.
The Manning of the Royal Navy. Selected Public Pamphlets 1693-1873. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright copy. Navy Records Society, Vol. 119.
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ALLIN Thomas
The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin 1660-1678. Edited by R.C. Anderson. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original series binding of white buckram blocked and ruled in gilt, navy blue buckram backs lettered in gilt, first volume uncut, boards mildly age-soiled as usual, a very good, bright, clean set. Navy Records Society, vols., 79 and 80. Vol. I: 1660-1666; Vol. II: 1667-1678. SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL EDITION. Albion p.238; NMM 2:1, 243.
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BAGNASCO Ermino
The Littorio Class. Italy's Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948. Drawings by Roberto Maggi, Maurizio Brescia and Angelo Brioschi. [First English Edition. Translated from the Second Italian Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 4 large folding plates (2 in colour) very numerous monochrome photograph in the text and photographic endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Surprisingly, the first detailed account in English of this well-known class, comprising Vittorio Veneto, Littorio and Roma.
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JULLIAN Marcel
HMS Fidelity. [Translated by Mervyn Savill. First English Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with 11 plates on 8 and an illustration in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. The truly remarkable story of a unique vessel - a largely Free French Q-ship enrolled wholesale into the Royal Navy and eventually sunk in the Atlantic in December 1942. This account is based largely on facts provided by Pat O'Leary who survived the sinking to organise the 'Pat' escape routes from France. First published in France in the preceding year. Uncommon in this condition. Enser, p.381; Law, 0861.
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BOYD Carl
The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. [First UK Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and maps; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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MAHAN Alfred T.
The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812. [First UK Edition.] SPLENDID COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 7 maps (one folding) and 6 battle-charts; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with an anchor motif, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, pictorial gilt from front boards and backstrips preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The second of Mahan's three great historical surveys of 'sea power' (a term coined by Mahan) which taken together cover the period 1660-1812. 'A valuable work, much more so than his 'Life of Nelson' (1897)', Albion. Albion, p.244; Hattendorf A4b; NMM V:I, 2163.
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ROBINSON C.N.
The British Tar in Fact and Fiction. The Poetry, Pathos, and Humour of the Sailor's Life. With Introductory Chapters on the Place of the Sea Officer and Seaman in Naval History and Historical Literature by John Leyland. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 15 plates in sepia and 113 monochrome plates on 64; original navy blue ribbed cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1909. Bright copy of a substantial and learned work. Its four sections examine the British tar in (i) literature, biography, pamphlet and satire; (ii) mystery, pageant, comedy and drama; (iii) sea stories, novels, magazines and chap-books; (iv) poems, ballads, songs and doggerel. There is a final section on the seaman and nautical life in pictorial form.
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WINN Godfrey
The Infirm Glory [with] The Positive Hour. [The Autobiography complete]. SIGNED PRESENTATION SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION SET FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTIONS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. The set comprises The Infirm Glory (1967) and The Positive Hour (1970). Volume I takes us to the outbreak of war; Volume II covers the war years, including his service on POZARICA (and his well-known account of PQ17) and CUMBERLAND. Law, 0751 (second volume).
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PADFIELD Peter
Donitz: The Last Fuhrer. Portrait of a Nazi War Leader. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first, and arguably still the best biography of the 'Lion' of the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm, and Hitler's chosen successor. Enser, p.153.
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WATTS Anthony J.
Japanese Warships of World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first single-volume work with anything like a claim to authority. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DAVIES John
Lower Deck. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With dustwrapper artwork by Eric Fraser. The author's sequel to 'The Stone Frigate' describes the career of the fictional Tribal HMS Skye in the Mediterranean in 1942. Although presented as fiction it is based closely on personal experience. This work was awarded the Macmillan Centenary Award for 19 45. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 125; Law 1047.
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SELIGMANN, Matthew S.
The Naval Route to the Abyss. The Anglo-German Naval Race, 1895-1914. [First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 161.
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TRACY, ed. Nicholas
Sea Power and the Control of Trade. Belligerent Rights from the Russian War to the Beira Patrol, 1854-1970. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 149. ALREADY SCARCE.
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GRAINGER, ed. John D
The Maritime Blockade of Germany in the Great War. The Northern Patrol 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 145. ALREADY SCARCE.
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MONSARRAT Nicholas
The Cruel Sea. [First Book Society Edition]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, with double-page map; handsomely bound in navy blue full morocco, sides with frame border, back with raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, fore-edges lightly mottled else a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. This edition was published simultaneously (September 1951) with the first edition. It is now scarce in its own right. The finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWII and a maritime classic. The story, based upon the author's own experiences, formed the basis of Charles Frend's notable feature film starring Jack Hawkins in one of his most memorable roles. So accurate is its depiction of the Battle of the Atlantic that it is one of the very few works of fiction admitted by Law to his standard bibliography The Royal Navy in World War Two. Law, 1865 (recording the first edition).
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HARLAND John
Ships and Seamanship. The Maritime Prints of J J Baugean FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First edition, with frontispiece and numerous full-page reproductions in the text; green cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LAMB Commander Charles
To War in a Stringbag. Foreword by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Evans. [Specially Illustrated US Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the UK as 'War in a Stringbag' in 1977. Well-written account by a pilot who served in virtually every theatre in which the Fleet Air Arm was involved. Vivid coverage of Taranto. Enser, p.88; Law, 9782.
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WINTON John
Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor!. Life on the Lower-Deck of the Victorian Navy. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a very god, bright, clean copy with unclipped dustwrapper neatly laminated to boards. A standard reference. Includes a bibliography.
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BIRD Keith
Erich Raeder. Admiral of the Third Reich. [First US Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; brown cloth boards, ivory cloth backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BEKKER Cajus
Hitler's Naval War. Translated and edited by Frank Ziegler. [First English Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, maps in the text and illustrated endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Broad survey of the German view, first published in Hamburg in 1971. Enser, p.187; Law 1645. UNCOMMON.
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RODGER N.A.M.
The Admiralty. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 24; white cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Published in the series 'Offices of State' edited by M.M. Reese, this is (surprisingly) the first general history of one of the major institutions of the British establishment. Dr. Rodger's cogent account covers the period from the formation of the first Board of 1628 to the creation of the MOD in 1964. SCARCE.
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BROWN Malcolm
Scapa Flow. The Reminiscences of Men and Women who served in Scapa Flow in two World Wars. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, blue top, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. The coverage is fairly equally divided between the two wars. Enser, p.393; Law, 1396.
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MARDER Arthur J.
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919. Volume III. Jutland and After (May 1916 - December 1916). THIS VOLUME ONLY. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 15 plates on 8, 5 diagrams in the text and 16 folding coloured charts in pocket at end; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Enser, p.310 (recording the work was a whole).
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PHILLIPS C.E.Lucas
The Greatest Raid of All. With Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. FIRST EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 37 plates on 16, 22 illustrations, maps and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, small name and date on half-title; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. An elegant copy of the first and still the best all-round account of Operation CHARIOT, the Combined Operations raid on St. Nazaire in 1942. Enser, p.392; Law 0475; Mulholland & Jordan L71.
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OMAN Carola
Nelson. IN FULL MOROCCO WITH THEME TOOLING
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 12 plates, 6 maps and plans in the text and large folding pedigree at end; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with an anchor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 'Incomparably the fullest modern biographical study of Nelson' (Warner). Still the most comprehensive single-volume biography. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Albion p.247 (recording only the 1954 edition); NMM II/1 996.
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LENTON H.T.
British and Empire Warships of the Second World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and over 630 illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Here is Lenton's magnum opus - the culmination of nearly forty years' research and a moumental study. As the definitive reference it builds upon (and in some cases supersedes) his earlier works and is now not likely ever to be surpassed.
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LORD Walter
The Miracle of Dunkirk. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.70.
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NASH Captain J. D.
deep sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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