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CAMPBELL Commander A[lexander] B.
Salute the Red Duster . With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 14 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Wide-ranging tribute to the Merchant Navy at war; includes Malta, Russia, Dunkirk, Graf Spee, Jervis Bay and many others. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.270; Law, 1264.
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HMS GANGES.
[Order of Ceremony of] Review by Vice-Admiral A C G Madden, 7 June 1951. In Honour of the Birthday of His Majesty the King. A RARE SURVIVAL
8pp 8vo., printed in blue, with one full-page photograph; wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, fresh copy. HMS GANGES (1865-1976) was the Royal Navy's junior rates training establishment at Shotley in Suffolk. Vice-Admiral Alexander Gordon Cumming Madden was then Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. During WWII he commanded BIRMINGHAM and ANSON. In 1949, as Flag Officer Far East Station, he was involved with AMETHYST and the Yangtze Incident. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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LENTON H. T.
American Fleet and Escort Destroyers. Volume 1 [with] Volume 2. [Complete set.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., oblong 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text; black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Macdonald's valuable series 'Navies of the Second World War'.
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WEMYSS Commander D.E.G.
Walker's Groups in the Western Approaches. Illustrated with many official Photographs. With a Foreword by Admiral Sir Max Horton. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, 36 plates on 24 and endpaper maps, neat signature on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Bright, crisp copy of the first and by far the scarcest of all the contemporary accounts of Walker's exploits (his groups sank 23 U-boats in total). Well illustrated with photographs (some less usual). Wemyss commanded WILD GOOSE; this account forms the basis of his later 'Relentless Pursuit' (1955). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.384; Law, 0222.
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Vale, ed. Brian
The Naval Miscellany Volume VIII. Edited by Brian Vale. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board with NRS medallion blocked in gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. Publications of the NRS, vol. 164. Includes Thomas de Snetesham's Accounts, Documents for Last Campaign of the MARY ROSE, RN and the Enforcement of the Stamp Act, James Ramsay's Essays, Borlase Warren and the RN Blockades of the US in 1812, Grenfell of the Brazilian Navy in the River Plate 1826, Northbrook's Response to Criticisms of Preparedness, Conveying Haile Selassie into Exile.
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HICHENS Antony
Gunboat Command. The Life of 'Hitch', Lieutenant-Commander Robert Hichens, 1909-1943. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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WILLMOTT H.P.
Grave of a Dozen Schemes. British Naval Planning and the War against Japan, 1943-1945. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, red cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Signed copies are very scarce.
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SCHOFIELD B.B.
The Russian Convoys. [Batsford British Battles series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16 and 8 maps (one double-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's sought-after 'British Battles' series, this comprehensive and lucid overview is the first coverage of the subject by an authority who has since made it a special area of study. Enser, p.119; Law 0513.
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WALKER Richard
The Nelson Portraits. An Iconography of Horatio, Viscount Nelson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome plates (many full-page) throughout; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ivory endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CONNELL G.G
Arctic Destroyers. The 17th Flotilla. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 16 and 5 full-page map in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Already scarce account of the 'O'-class destroyers which between them escorted forty-four Arctic convoys. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Law, 1044
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MACDOUGALL Philip
Royal Dockyards. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and plans in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MARCUS G. J.
Heart of Oak. A Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BEESLY Patrick
Very Special Intelligence. The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945. With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impresson, with 8 plates and front and rear endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Beesly served in OIC from 1940; his account is the first to describe in detail its fight against Germany, excluding the Mediterranean theatre. A useful complement to Maclachlan but with the advantage that ULTRA was beginning to declassify and there is here much new material. Specific episodes include the sinkings of the Bismarck and the Scharnhorst, the Channel Dash and Arctic convoy PQ 17. A key text in the unveiling of ULTRA by a central player in its dissemination. The original edition is elusive in this condition. Enser p.127; 154; Law 0816.
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MORAN Jim
US Marine Corps Uniforms and Equipment in World War II. [Second Impression]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published a year after the first edition.
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MOSKIN J. Robert
The Story of the US Marine Corps. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JENKINS Commander C.A.
Warship Profile 24: HMS Furious Aircraft Carrier 1917-1948. Part II: 1925-1948. 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, small sticker on front wrapper else a near fine copy. Law, 0963.
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ADMIRALTY
Royal Naval Handbook of Field Training 1934. Training and Staff Duties Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. BR 159/34. BRIGHT COPY OF THE STANDARD WWII ISSUE
8vo., with plates and numerous diagrams (one folding) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, boards lightly chafed and case a little shaken else a bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements (a number illustrated) at front and rear. Stationery code: 20-19-0-34. Unusually well-preserved (if shaken) copy of the standard WWII edition. VERY SCARCE.
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JAMES William
The Naval History of Great Britain. from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV. A New Edition, with Additions and Notes, and an Account of the Burmese War and the Battle of Navarino, by Captain Chamier. BRIGHT WORKING SET IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 6 engraved portrait frontispieces, 19 engraved portraits, numerous diagrams in the text and 28 folding abstracts, some light and inoffensive age-staining; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, marbled boards, backs with flat bands lettered and numbered in gilt, red edges, three volumes expertly rebacked to style with old backstrips laid down, a good, bright, firm copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front paste-downs, and neat press-mark on title rectos and versos.
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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY.
Heroes of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force 1937-1945aero journal. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in Jpanese, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout, and fine coloured illustrations of aircraft; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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STURTIVANT Ray
Fleet Air Arm at War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper..
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MORRISON Wilbur H.
Wings over the Seven Seas. The Story of US Naval Aviation's Fight for Survival. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped,lightly rubbed dustwrapper.
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PECK Taylor
Round-Shot to Rockets. A History of the Washington Navy Yard and US Naval Gun Factory BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers in blue; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TALL Commander J.J.
HM Submarines in Camera 1901-1996. Foreword by Rear Admiral J.F. Perowne. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Superb collection of photographs (exteriors, interiors and, particularly for WWII, personalities), many not easily available elsewhere.
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SWANBOROUGH Gordon
United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities.
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KENT Captain Barrie
Signal!. A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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SIGEL Gustav A.
Germany's Army and Navy by Pen and Picture. Compiled from the best Authorities by Gustav A. Sigel with important original Contributions on the German Army by Major-General von Specht. [Facsimile reissue] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, with coloured frontispiece and numerous fine coloured plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High qaulity facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1900. The coloured plates are superb chromo-lithographs from the turn of the century.
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THOMAS David A
Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROBINSON III Charles M
Shark of the Confederacy. The Story of the CSS Alabama. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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PEARS Commander Randolph
Young Sea Dogs. Some Adventures of Midshipmen of the Fleet. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, gilt back, a good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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US ARMY-NAVY.
US Army-Navy Journal of Recognition September 1943-February 1944, Numbers 1-6. Introduction by Norman Friedman. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RENTZ Major John N.
Marines in the Central Solomons. [Foreword by Lemuel C. Shepherd]. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs in the text and numerous folding maps coloured in outline; laminated pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers [only]. The official, highly detailed campaign report, profusely mapped and illustrated. Not recorded by Enser.
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HEINL Jr Lt. Col. Robert D.
The Marshalls: Increasing the Tempo. [Foreword by Lemuel C. Shepherd]. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs in the text and numerous folding maps coloured in outline; laminated pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers [only]. The official, highly detailed campaign report, profusely mapped and illustrated. Not recorded by Enser.
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MAHAN Alfred T.
The Navy in the Civil War. The Gulf and Inland Waters. [First UK Edition] NEAR FINE ADMIRALTY PRESENTATION COPY OF MAHAN'S FIRST BOOK
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 8 maps (3 folding), free endpapers very faintly spotted; navy cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. FIRST UK EDITION OF MAHAN'S FIRST BOOK. THIS IS A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ADMIRALTY WITH ITS ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN; this copy awarded to Sub-Lieutenant G.H. Brady in 1902 for Meritorious Service. Hattendorf A1d.
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SPURR Russell
Let the Tiger turn Tail. Spurr's War FINE COPY IN UNCIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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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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MILLETT Allan R.
In Many a Strife. General Gerald C. Thomas and the US Marine Corps 1917-1956. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs, maps and charts in the text; ivory boards, green cloth back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RUSS Martin
The Last Parallel. A Marine's War Journal. [BOMC Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with maps and diagrams in the text; green boards, black cloth back lettered in red, uncut, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. With a copy of the BOMC flier loosely inserted.
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PERKINS Dave
Canada's Submariners 1914-1923. Foreword by Vice-Admiral James C. Wood. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread, very numerous photographs throughout and illustrated endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROBERTS Bruce
Steel Ships and Iron Men. A Tribute to World War II Fighting Ships and the Men who served on them. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Career histories, together with then-and-now photographs, of some thirty US museum ships from WWII.
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McKEE Fraser M.
HMCS Swansea. The Life and Times of a Frigate. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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HANSER Richard
Victory at Sea. Captions by Henry Salomon with Richard Hanser. Text by Richard Hanser. Photographs selected by Charles Osborn. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and red, a good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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ROSSLER Eberhard
Die Deutschen Uboote und ihre Werften. Eine Bilddokumentation uber den deutschen Ubootbau von 1935 bis heute. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, text in German, with very numerous photographs, plans and diagrams in the text, and illustrated endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of a standard reference.
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SMITH Peter C.
Royal Navy Ships' Badges. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous coloured reproductions of badges throughout; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at head of front panel.
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STREATFEILD-JAMES Commander E.C.
In the Wake. The Birth of the Indian and Pakistani Navies. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
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PENGELLY Colin
The First Bellerophon. With a Preface by Prof. Christopher Lloyd. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SKIERA, ed. Joseph A.
Aircraft Carriers in Peace and War. Edited by Joseph A. Skiera. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, blue top (faded as usual), a good, bright copy in unclipped, moderately rubbed dustwrapper.
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THOMER Egbert
Torpedoboote und Zerstorer. Eine Bildchronik aus zwei Weltkriegen. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, text in German, with frontispiece and numerous fine photographs throughout, page-edges tanning slightly; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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PRESTON C.E.
Power for the Fleet. The History of British Marine Gas Turbines. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photograpohs and illustrations throughout, and illustrated endpapers; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MORLEY Sam
99 Years of Navy. [From Victoria to VJ Day through three Pairs of Eyes.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; , with plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACKENZIE Hector
Observations. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Incisive memoirs of a Fleet Air Officer during WWII.
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