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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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ROSKILL Captain S.W.
The Secret Capture. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8, diagram and 5 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Roskill's account of the capture of submarines, principally that of U-110 captured intact during Convoy OB318. Suppressed during the war, the story appears here for the first time. TTHE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.430; Law, 0261.
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MOORE John
The Fleet Air Arm. A Short Account of its History and Achievements. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 10 plates on 8 and 3 full-page maps in the text, small, neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With the publisher's errata slip correcting the caption to plate III. Vividly written account by the author of the Brensham trilogy. Moore served with the Fleet Air Arm during hostilities. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.162; Law, 0783.
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KEMP P.K.
HM Destroyers. [With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly dust-soiled on (predominantly white|) rear panel. As always from this author, an excellent general survey. About half the text covers the major destroyer actions of WWII. Enser, p.126; Law, 1058.
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MAHAN Alfred T.
Lessons of the War with Spain and other Articles. FIRST UK EDITION
8vo., First UK Edition, on laid paper, with 2 folding maps on japon, small neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the battleship 'Iowa', gilt back, gilt top, uncut, bottle green endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), small pull at head band else a very good, bright copy. Collects nine major articles including five on the war of the title. Published simultaneously with the US edition. A SCARCE MAHAN TITLE. Hattendorf A7b.
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ADMIRALTY.
Invasion Europe. [comprising] Operation 'Neptune' Landings in Normandy June, 1944; The Campaign in North-West Europe June 1944-May 1945; Invasion of the South of France Operation 'Dragoon' 15th August 1944. FINE SET IN SLIP-CASE
Together 5 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 31 figures, and 30 folding maps and plans in separate wallets; navy cloth gilt, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs [text volumes], original printed wrappers [map, diagram and errata wallets], a fine copy in the publisher's pictorial slip-case as issued. Admiralty Battle Summaries were written relatively soon after the events they describe (the last of the present collection was produced in 1952) and are based on official documentary material which did not become available to the public at large until 1968. They were written by authors who understood thoroughly their topics, as follows: Operation 'Neptune': Commander L.J. Pitrcairn-Jones; The Campaign in North-West Europe: Commander J.H. Lloyd-Owen; Operation 'Dragoon': Commander W.E.H. Westall. In due course, the volumes became basic reference sources for the authors of the Cabinet Office series of OFFICIAL HISTORIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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BLORE T.
Commissioned Bargees. The Story of the Landing Craft. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy. Largely vernacular account of these severely under-published craft.Enser, p.244; Law, 1088
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JACKSON (ed.) T.S.
Logs of the Great Sea Fights 1794-1805. Edited by T. Sturges Jackson. [Facsimile reissue]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
2 vols., 8vo., with maps and diagrams in the text, small neat signature on front free endpapers; original series binding of white buckram blocked and ruled in gilt, navy blue buckram gilt back, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean set. Navy Records Society, vol. XVI, XVIII. With a copy of the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Much-needed reissue of the original editions of 1899-1900.
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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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MCARA Charles
Mainly in Minesweepers. A Scot at Sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 (including several illustrations by John Worsley); blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Effectively a privately printed memoir, this account details the author's service including TORCH, HUSKY, ALALANCHE and DRAGOON. A notable addition to the recent spate of minesweeping memoirs, always a significantly under-written sector of WWII. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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SMITH Peter C.
British Battle Cruisers. [Paperback Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Well-illustrated if brief account of development and service history in two world wars. Law, 0990 (recording the cloth bound edition)
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JENKINS Haydn
One Time Marine. (A Bootneck's Tale).
8vo., with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications 7. An account of the author's service in the Corps immediately after WWII
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BENNETT G.
Charlie B. A Biography of Admiral Lord Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates and 7 maps and diagrams (one double-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, red top, covers mildly faded, one corner bruised else a good, sound copy. VERY SCARCE. NMM II/1 291a.
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ROYAL NAVY
Official Souvenir Programme of the Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead, 15 June 1953. fficial Souvenir Programme of the Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead, 15 June 1953.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs (a number full-page) and a double-page plan in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Details include commands, ships, air squadrons, foreign vessels, routings, and six extended essays. With numerous trade advertisements throughout. SSCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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STEP Edward
Shell Life. An Introduction to the British Mollusca. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PICTORIAL CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and very numerous illustrations in the text, some light and occasional marginal foxing, wanting blank preliminary (half-title present), neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original terracotta ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DAVIS Charles C.
The Marine and Fresh-Water Plankton. AJB RUDGE's COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This copy was formerly in the library of AJB Rudge, naturalist, conservationist and member of the Nature Conservancy Council.. It bears his MS bookplate on front free endpaper. SCARCE.
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SELIGMAN Adrian
No Stars to Guide. Decorations by Konstance Pares. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with tinted frontispiece, wood-engraved title-vignette, 20 plates printed in blue, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text and 6 large folding maps (one printed in colours); handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered 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. In one of the earliest personal memoirs of naval service in WWII, Seligman gives a thinly veiled account of his experiences in the Aegean in 1941 when he helped to smuggle five Russian merchantmen through the Axis blockade. He returned on the MV Olinda and that journey also is described in full. Although there is no connection whatever, this little-known story is reminiscent in sheer daring and blatant skulduggery of Maclean's fictitious The Guns of Navarone. This is an extraordinary book in other ways. Produced by a major publisher not often given to war memoirs, it is unusually well-produced with lavish illustration and large and detailed maps. The print run must have been small for it is very scarce. A lovely copy. Enser, p.63; Law, 0360.
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BRYANT et al K.
Even More Submarine Memories. More Less Known Facts from the Gatwick Submarine Archive. FINE PRESENTATION COPY
8vo. First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM BRYANT WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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WINTON John
We Joined the Navy. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of Winton's classic account first published in 1959.
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RODGER N.A.M.
The Insatiable Earl. A Life of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1718-1792. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; lilac cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Acclaimed biography of the First Lord of the Admiralty ('in a class by himself') during the American War of Independence - and the inventor of our favourite fast food.
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SETH Ronald
The Fiercest Battle. The Story of North Atlantic Convoy ONS 5, 22nd April - 7th May 1943. Foreword by Rear-Admiral P.W. Gretton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece 8 plates on 4 and a full-page map in the text; cloth backstrip lettered and blocked in yellow and blue a very good clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter lightly age-marked on lower panel. The first full-length study of a North Atlantic convoy vividly-written and carefully compiled from official sources supported by personal accounts on both sides. At times it delivers a minute-by-minute of the 'fiercest battle' against several wolf-pack
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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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HOWARTH Stephen
Morning Glory. A History of the Imperial Japanese Navy. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; red cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.139
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PACK S.W.C.
The Wager Mutiny. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with portraits plates and endpaper maps; cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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STOPFORD T.P.
Admiralty Ships Badges. Original Patterns 1919-1994. FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition with many hundreds of coloured reproductions; cloth gilt backs a fine set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: Abdiel-Lysander; Vol. II: Mackay-Zulu. Lovely set of a standard reference.
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LAMBERT Andrew
Nelson. Britannia's God of War. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with 14 plates (coloured and monochrome) on 8; blue cloth gilt back red endpapers a fine copy in dustwrapper.
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WARNER Oliver
An Introduction to British Marine Painting. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Well-illustrated historical survey
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LAVERY Brian
All Hands. The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 1939 to the Present Day. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, oragne endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Third volume of Lavery's exc ellent trilogy, following 'Royal Tars' and 'Able Seamen'. This volume is complete in itself
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ROYAL NAVY. BRITISH ARMY
Our Army and Navy. Sixty-Four Large Plates illustrating the British Forces by Land and Sea with explanatory Letterpress.
Oblong quarto, First Edition, with 64 fine large plates, one or two plates with short closed tears neatly repaired; pictorial boards, blue cloth back, covers mildly age-worn and soiled as usual, neatly recased, a very good, bright copy. Well-chosen selection of plates emphasising both the traditional and the innovative elements of each service in the context of the Great War. SCARCE.
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MONSARRAT Nicholas
The Cruel Sea. [Second Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Second Impression, with double-page map, some very light and occasional spotting; handsomely bound in navy blue full morocco, boards with gilt frame border, 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 a month after the first edition. 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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JONES Tristan
Heart of Oak. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Jones' vividly-written account of his service in the RN in WWII, during which he was sunk three times before the age of eighteen.
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COUSINS Geoffrey
The Story of Scapa Flow. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 16 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Astonishingly, this is the sole history to date of the main base of the Royal Navy's Atlantic fleet of both world wars. Good coverage of the scuttling and salvage of the German High Seas Fleet after WWI, and of the Royal Oak disaster in the early days of WWII. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.322; Law 1398.
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STUMPF Richard
The Private War of Seaman Stumpf. The Unique Diaries of a Young Seaman in the Great War. Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel Horn. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Personal accounts by a young seaman aboard the battleship HELGOLAND. Enser, p.157 (recording the first US edition of 1967).
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WELLS Captain John G.
Whaley. The Story of HMS Excellent from 1830 to 1980. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed history of the Royal Navy's world-famous gunnery school at Whale Island, Portsmouth.
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS
Selected Papers on British Warship Design in World War II. From the Transactions of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects. Foreword by Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, President of the RINA. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at extremities. The papers include Baker on Ships of the Invasion Fleet; Lenaghan on MAC Ships; Sims on British Submarine Design; Watson on Corvettes and Frigates; Holt on Coastal Force Design and Baker on The: Development of Landing Craft.
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DAVID MESSUM
The Call of the Running Tide. 2008. Marine Paintings over Three Centuries FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. With a copy of the price list loosely inserted. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DAVID MESSUM
The Call of the Running Tide. 2009. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHATTERTON E. Keble
Old Ship Prints. With Illustrations from the MacPherson Collection. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, title in blue and black, 14 fine coloured plates and 95 plates in monochrome; original green coarse-grain cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, blue top, uncut, a near fine copy. Bright, crisp copy of a standard reference. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ROBINSON Charles N.
Old Naval Prints. Their Artists and Engravers. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. 1500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with 24 fine mounted coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), 72 plates toned in sepia and decorative endpapers, half-title, title and first few leaves lightly spotted; original navy buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 16). With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Bright, crisp copy of a standard reference. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ROSSITER Mike
Ark Royal. The Life, Death and Rediscovery of the legendary Second World War Aircraft Carrier. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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OMMANNEY F.D
Flat-Top. The Story of an Escort Carrier. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned and rubbed at backstrip. A propaganda account of life aboard a 'Woolworth' carrier on an Arctic convoy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.22; Law, 0506.
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SCHOFIELD Vice Admiral B B
Navigation and Direction. The Story of HMS Dryad. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the training of RN navigators from 1900 to 1977, with substantial coverage of WWII. Law 0911.
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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.]. [Second Edition]. THE PEPYS TRILOGY COMPLETE
3 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in first and second volumes, neat contemporarey inscription on front free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set. One of the outstanding biographies of the twentieth century, the trilogy was first published by Cambridge (1933-38) in plain typographical dustwrappers. When Collins secured the right to reprint, maps were produced for the second volume. NMML Catalogue II, Part 1, 1194-1196; Albion, p.215 (all recording the first edition).
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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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