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JACKSON G.V.
The Perilous Adventures and Vicissitudes of a Naval Officer 1801-1812. Being Part of the Memoirs of Admiral George Vernon Jackson (1787-1876). Edited by Harold Burrows.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 6 plates and maps on front and rear paste-downs; navy blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from and institution with its bookplate and markings on front free endpaper, and neat blind stamp on title. Very scarce. NMM II/1 701.
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CLARKE W.V.J.
Cole's Shipmasters' Handbook to the Merchant Shipping Acts. Being a practical Guide to the Acts and Regulations for all Shipmasters and all concerned with the Mercantile Marine.
8vo., blind-blocked cloth, crease in upper cover else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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DIVINE A.D.
Dunkirk.
8vo., First Edition, with front endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter slightly browned at backstrip and frayed at extremities. Comprehensive account of the naval side of the evacuation, with appendices including the the official list of ships, honours and awards. Scarce in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.133; Law, 0165.
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GREGER Rene
Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper
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MIDDLEBROOK Martin
Convoy. The Battle for Convoys SC. 22 and HX.229. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 35 plates, 8 maps and 3 diagrams; blue tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Both convoys sailed in March 1943, the month when the Germans came closest to winning the Battle of the Atlantic. They are examined in depth and, whilst chosen for their own importance, they serve also to illustrat the typical hazards, dangers and successes of the Atlantic convoy system. Enser, p.60; Law 0271.
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TULEJA Thaddeus V.
Climax at Midway. [First UK Edition]. FIRST UK EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 11 plates on 6, 6 maps in the text and endpaper maps, neat signature on half-title; blue cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Classic early account with valuable chronology of the battle. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.274.
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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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MALLALIEU J.P.W.
Very Ordinary Seaman. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in navy full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Fictionalised but accurate account of the author's five months in a destroyer on the Murmansk run. Generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea; certainly a minor classic of WWII. A LOVELY COPY OF THE SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION. Law, 1062.
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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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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION
Belgium. February 1944. [Publication Code] BR 521 (Restricted).
8vo., First Edition, with plates, numerous maps and diagrams (a number folding), and large folding coloured map in pocket at end; original brown cloth gilt, gilt back, a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front free endpaper. 'This book is for the Use of persons in HM Service only and must now be shown, or made available, to the Press or to any member of the Public'. The Geographical Handbook Series was produced during WWII to provide RN officers with a ready source of comprehensive and detailed information on countries in which they were called upon to serve. The several volumes, all now elusive, remain a valuable archive of geographical, cultural and statistical data. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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TANNER J.R.
Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy. Lees Knowles Lectures delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge 6-27 November 1919.
8vo., First Edition; original blue boards, blue buckram back with printed paper label, uncut, covers mildly age-scuffed else a very good, firm copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front endpapers. I: Introductory; II: Administration; III: Finance; IV: Victualling, Discipline, Ships, Guns. With index.
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RODNEY Admiral Lord
The Rodney Papers. Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney. Volume I: 1742-1763 [with] Vol. II: 1763-1780. Edited by David Syrett. NEAR FINE SET
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of blue cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set. Navy Records Society, vols. 148 and 151.
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MARDER Arthur J.
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919. Volume II [only]. The War Years: to the Eve of Jutland.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 12 plates on 8 and 8 maps coloured in outline (three folding and three double-page) at end, fore-edges lightly spotted; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges. Very scarce in any condition. Enser, p.310 (recording the wok as a whole).
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GAUNT William
Marine Painting. An Historical Survey.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page); blue cloth, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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WARREN C.E.T.
'The Admiralty regrets'. The Story of His Majesty's Submarine 'Thetis' and 'Thunderbolt'.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 26 plates on 14, 5 illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper diagrams; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in worn and frayed dustwrapper. Well-written investigative account, by an established team, of the dramatic story of THETIS, lost on trials in Liverpool Bay in 1939 with the loss of ninety-nine lives. She was salved, renamed THUNDERBOLT, and served with distinction in the Mediterranean until her final loss with all hands in 1943. Increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.419; Law, 1139.
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KEITH Viscount
The Keith Papers. Selected from the Papers of Admiral Viscount Keith. Volume III. Edited by Christopher Lloyd.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 2 full-page maps in the text and a folding map; original series binding of decorative white buckram gilt, navy blue buckram back gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. XCVI. Very scarce.Scarce, especially in this condition.
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WILSON H.W.
Ironclads in Action. A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895. [Second Edition].
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 46 plates and 30 maps and plans (a number folding), small neat signature on frontispiece verso; original cloth, gilt backs, boards very lightly age-worn else a very good, bright, clean set. First published in 1895. Hattendorf B63.
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HUTCHESON J.C.
Young Tom Bowling. A Story of the Boys of the British Navy. Illustrated by John B. Greene. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, 19 illustrations in the text and decorative endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on half-title verso; original brown pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, bevelled boards, covers very lightly rubbed, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WINCHESTER, ed. Clarence.
Shipping Wonders of the World. A Saga of the Sea in Story and Picture. [Complete set]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, titles in blue and black, with nearly 2,000 photographs, illustrations, maps and charts (including 30 in colour and 120 in photogravure) in the text, free endpapers very faintly spotted; original blue cloth, upper boards elaborately blocked in blind, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, a very good, bright, clean set. A magnificent compendium of naval and maritime history, written by acknowledged authorities, profusely illustrated and generally accepted as the finest encyclopaedia of its kind.
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BRYANT Arthur
Samuel Pepys. The Man in the Making [with] The Years of Peril [with] The Saviour of the Navy. [The trilogy complete.]. THE PEPYS TRILOGY COMPLETE
3 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 3 portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in first volume; decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt backs, covers very slightly dulled, fore-edges dusty, backstrip of first volume heavily browned (but all gilt still legible) else a good, sound, firm working set. One of the outstanding biographies of the twentieth century, the trilogy comprises 'The Man in the Making' (1933), 'The Years of Peril' (1935) and 'The Saviour of the Navy' (1938). NMML Catalogue II, Part 1, 1194-1196; Albion, p.215.
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CAMPBELL John
Queen Elizabeth Class. Warship Monograph Two. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and diagrams (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Warship Monographs. Monograph Two. The five battleships of this class - Queen Elizabeth, Barham, Malaya, Valiant, Warspite - were the last designed under Sir Philip Watts as Director Naval Construction. All served in the latter stages of WWI (Queen Elizabeth controversially at the Dardanelles) and with distinction (especially Warspite) throughout WWII which all save Barham, a tragic early loss, survived. Scarce, especially in this condition. Law, 0994.
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COWIE J.S.
Mines, Minelayers and Minelaying. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 6 plates, 43 illustrations in the text and 3 maps; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. A standard reference, detailing the history of British mine warfare, with some 50pp devoted to WWII. Enser, p. 275; Law 0830
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ELLIS R.
The Royal Navy at Malta. Volume I: The Victorian Era 1865-1906 [with] Vol. II: 1907-1939. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine photographs throughout; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Superb collection of photographs of HM ships (with detailed descriptions) taken by the Ellis family in Malta
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FRISCHAUER Willi
The Navy's Here! The Altmark Affair. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map in red and black, 13 plates on 12 and 4 maps in the text; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Vanity Fair, Johannesburg, on front paste-down. Classic account of ALTMARK and GRAF SPEE from the outbreak of war to COSSACK's rescue of the internees. The title-phrase entered the language during WWII. Very scarce in this condition. Enser, p.29; Law, 0108.
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FRIEDMAN Norman
US Naval Weapons. Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo used by the US Navy from 1883 to the Present Day. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. Detailed standard reference.
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HACKFORTH-JONES Gilbert
One Man's Wars. A Novel. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Douglas Hall. Scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
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LAMBERT John
Anatomy of the Ship. The Submarine Alliance. NEAR FINE COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications. HMS Alliance is now preserved at the Royal Naval Submarine Museum at Gosport. Law, 1124.
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LUND Paul
Night of the U-Boats [Convoy SC7]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 38 plates on 12; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A moving account of convoy SC7 [from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the UK] in October 1940. The convoy was badly mauled by the first use of 'wolf-pack' tactics, later to become commonplace in the North Atlantic. Well-illustrated with valuable photographs of ships and men not easily available elsewhere. Dustwrapper artwork by Admiralty War Artist Jim Morris. Enser, p.429; Law, 0270.
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POPE Dudley
Decoy. A Novel. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second novel (following 'Convoy') in the Ned Yorke sequence with the Royal Navy in WWII. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Ian Robertson.
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ROBERTS John
Invincible Class. Warship Monograph One. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. Warship Monographs. Monograph One. Detailed account of the design, construction and service of the world's first battlecruisers. The brainchild of Lord Fisher, the three vessels of this class - Indomitable, Inflexible and Invincible - combined the speed of a cruiser and the gunpower of a Dreadnought, and were the fastest capital ships of their era. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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TERRELL E.
Admiralty Brief. The Story of Inventions that contributed to Victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 33 plates on 28, front endpaper chart in red, green and black, and double-page folding plan at end; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The remarkable story of how an eminent lawyer became one of the war's most effective inventors. Commissioned into the RNVR, Terrell was the originator of 'plastic armour', the 'scorpion', and the 'rocket bomb', all of which played a role in the fight against the U-boats. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.403; Law 1253.
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WARRILOW B.
Nabob. The First Canadian-Manned Aircraft Carrier. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout, and photographic endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip. HMS Nabob was a Ruler-class escort carrier, and the first carrier to be manned entirely by the RCN. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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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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OPPENHEIM (ed.) M.
Naval Accounts and Inventories of the Reign of Henry VII 1485-8 and 1495-7.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece; original series binding of decorative white buckram gilt, navy blue buckram back gilt, some light age-soiling else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. VIII.
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PEARCE Frank
Last Call for HMS Edinburgh. A Story of the Russian Convoys. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 8 and a full-page map; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. One of the best and most vivid accounts of the Arctic convoys, this documents the loss of HMS Edinburgh after a gallant action with convoy PQ14. It is valuable also for its coverage of the privations of the survivors, an aspect of Arctic warfare not often mentioned. The author survived the sinking of the brand-new cruiser HMS Trinidad, lost in the same waters only a few days later (see his story of that action in 'The Ship that torpedoed Herself ', 1975). Law, 0508
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WRAGG David
Sacrifice for Stalin. The Cost and Value of the Arctic Convoys re-assessed. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Appendices list the convoys and the merchant contingent. Few punches are pulled in this notable addition to the recent literature of Arctic convoys.
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MONSARRAT Nicholas
The Cruel Sea. [Fourth Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Fourth Impression, with a double-page map; handsomely bound in navy blue full morocco, back with raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, blue ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published four months after the first edition and the last impression issued in the year of first publication. 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
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O'BRIAN Patrick
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey. Including Facsimile of the Manuscript. Foreword by William Waldegrave. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous full-page facsimiles in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The chapters of the last (untitled) Aubrey novel left at O'Brian's death are presented both in printed version and as a facsimile of the manuscript. The latter extends several pages beyond the end of the typescript and includes marginal notes by the author. The striking endpapers display a wonderful gallery of the front panels of the dustwrappers of the much-loved Aubrey/Maturin series, together with a portrait of the author.
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HURD Archibald
Britannia has Wings! The Fleet in Action - on, over and under the Sea.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.381; Law 0639.
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TARRANT V.E.
Battlecruiser Invincible. The History of the First Battlecruiser, 1909-16. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 33 plates on 16 and 14 maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Completed as the second most powerful warship in existence, the first of Britain's battlecruisers performed well in her allotted role as scourge of German commerce raiders in WWI. Only when called upon to fulfil a fleet role for which she was never designed did she come to spectacular grief at Jutland. A gripping, if inevitable, story, well told with much new material and good clutch of uncommon photographs.
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HMS ENTERPRISE
HMS Enterprise. The Story Of The First Commission, April 1926 to December 1928.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with numerous plates and a folding map (lightly spotted); red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. The editor was almost certainly the Rev. Harold E. Stevens, ship's chaplain from 1 January 1927 to the end of the commission. The first of the Royal Navy's two 'E'-class Cruisers (the other being HMS Emerald), Enterprise was launched on Clydebank in 1919 and completed at Devonport in 1926. During the last phase of her first commission she was commanded by Pridham-Whipple, who (commanding the Mediterranean cruiser squadrons for Cunningham) became one of Britain's finest fighting admirals of WWII. The Enterprise's own WWII service comprised Atlantic escort 1939-40; Home Fleet 1940 (including the Norwegian campaign during which she supported the army at Narvik); South Atlantic 1940-41 (including Force H and Mers-el-Kebir); East Indies 1941-42; Eastern Fleet 1942-43; Home Fleet 1943-44 (including Normandy/Utah); Reserve and Trooping 1945. After long and faithful service she was decommissioned in 1946 and scrapped at Newport in the same year. The suggestion that a book of the first commission should be produced came from the ship's company and a copy was printed for everyone who had served in her for a year or more. Since her complement averaged 570 it is clear that few copies can have survived, let alone in this condition; we have been unable so far to trace another. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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LUND Paul
Nightmare Convoy. The Story of the Lost Wrens [Convoy OG71]. [Drawings by Tom Shuttleworth]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates on 12 and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Moving account of convoy OG71 which sailed from Liverpool for Gibraltar in August 1941. The convoy was badly hit by U-boats resulting in the loss of several escorts and merchant vessels. Most dreadful of all was the death of twenty-two Wrens (the first such loss of the war) in the Commodore's steamer Aguila. Dustwrapper artwork and text illustrations by Tom Shuttleworth who served during the convoy abroad HMS Wallflower. It is notable that Nicholas Monsarrat, present aboard the Flower-class corvette HMS Campanula, termed this action 'my particular nightmare' and later based Lt.-Cmdr George Ericson of 'The Cruel Sea' on Captain Charles Cuthbertson, captain of HMS Zinnia. Another vividly-written account by a team with a well-deserved reputation for historical accuracy and carefully collected vernacular material.
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ROYAL NAVY
B.R.77 Machinery Handbook [with] B.R.77A Appendix I to B.R.77 Machinery Handbook. Boiler Corrosion and Water Treatment. WITH THE SCARCE SUPPLEMENT
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 6 plates (one folding), a folding table, and numerous diagrams (a number full-page) in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in red, Appendix wire-stitched as issued, both very good, bright, clean copies. 'This Handbook supersedes the Stokers Manual and is to be issued free of charge to each direct entry engine-room artificer, engine-room artificer apprentice and stoker on joining'. VERY SCARCE TOGETHER IN THIS CONDITION
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HEWISON W.S.
Scapa Flow in War and Peace. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, plates, illustrations in the text and a folding map; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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LIDDLE Peter H.
The Sailor's War 1914-18. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with photographic title-spread, very numerous photographs, illustrations and facsimiles throughout and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. An excellent and well-illustrated summary of life and war at sea during WWI.
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SAXON L. S.
Thomas E and Sisters. Compiled by Laurence S. Saxon. SIGNED COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous portraits and photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT INNER WRAPPER. Privately compiled and printed summary of the twelve destroyers of the Allen M. Sumner class, all completed as light minelayers during 1944. The author served on Thomas E Fraser (DM-24), attached to Mine Division Seven and present at Okinawa and Iwo Jima; her war service is described in some detail. The other eleven vessels comprised Smith, Shannon, Bauer, Adams, Tolman, Wiley, Shea, Ditter, Lindsey, Gwin and Ward; their war service is given in summary with pictures. Many useful photographs (including some striking shots of war damage). All twelve vessels survived WWII. Scarce
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CODRINGTON E.
Piracy in the Levant 1827-8. Selected from the papers of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington and edited by Lieutenant-Commander C. G. Pitcairn Jones. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a folding map on japon; original series binding of navy blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Navy Records Society, vol. LXXII. VERY SCARCE
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GARDNER J.A.
Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, Commander RN (1775-1814). Edited by J. Knox Laughton.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations; original series binding of decorative white buckram gilt, navy blue buckram back gilt, some light age-soiling else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. XXXI
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HAWKE E.
The Hawke Papers. A Selection 1743-1771. Edited by F Ruddock Mackay.
8vo., First Edition, with a plate, maps and diagrams; original series binding of navy blue cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. CXXIX
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LUMBY (ed.) E.W.R.
Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean 1912-1914. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 maps; original series binding of navy blue cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Navy Records Society, vol. CXV
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