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TOVEY Doreen
Donkey Work. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; orange cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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VILLON Francois
Les Oeuvres de Francois Villon. 10 hors-texte et lettrines de Maurice Pouzet. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., First Edition thus, text in French, with coloured frontispiece, title and text in blue and black, and 9 coloured plates; original wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy in pictorial dustwrapper printed in colours, complete with original glassine over-wrapper (the glassine mildly browned). EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 1263).
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FOOT M.R.D.
SOE. An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46.
8vo., First Edition, with 59 plates on 24 and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Valuable summary by the author of the official history. Enser, p.191.
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HERZOG Maurice
Annapurna Premier 8,000. Preface de Lucien Devies. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with 32 plates (a number double-page), several maps in the text and mounted folding map printed in colours; original wrappers printed in red and black, all edges uncut, PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a very good, clean copy in the pictorial dustwrapper, the latter a little worn and frayed at extremities. 'Collection Supervivium', 16, with publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The original account of the first conquest of Annapurna.
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LOVAT Laura
Maurice Baring. A Postcript by Laura Lovat with some Letters and Verse.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 plates; original blue buckram, gilt back, covers very lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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FORMAN Maurice Buxton
George Meredith. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse [with] Meredithiana. Being a Supplement to the Bibliography of Meredith. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 5 other facsimiles, endpapers browned; original series binding of grey boards, oatmeal holland back lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp set. Second volume with the Society's 'Vote of Thanks' slip loosely inserted.
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LINDSAY Maurice
The County Books. The Lowlands of Scotland. Edinburgh and the South. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map, some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hales's seminal 'County Books' series, edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
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BARING Maurice
Maurice Baring. Letters. Selected and edited by Jocelyn Hillgarth and Julian Jeffs. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. ALREADY SCARCE
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MARSTON Maurice
Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, dark top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the 'Roadmaker' series.
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TOVEY Doreen
Cats in May. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARING Maurice
Darby and Joan. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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BARING Maurice
Robert Peckham. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-browned dustwrapper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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BARING Maurice
The Coat without Seam. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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KELLY Maurice
Steam in the Air. The Application of Steam Power in Aviation during the 19th and 20th Centuries. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
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POLLET Maurice
John Skelton. Poet of Tudor England. Translated by John Warrington. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates, neat signature on front paste-down; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LAS VERGNAS Raymond
Chesterton, Belloc, Baring. Translated by C.C. Martindale. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, lengthy contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at edges and browned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Sullivan 765.
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JACOBS W.W.
The Lady of the Barge. [Third Edition]. IN SIGNED MUDIE BINDING
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece and 11 plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen, some mild spotting throughout; attractively bound in blue half calf BY MUDIE, blue cloth boards, back with five raised bands, second compartment with leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, third compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright copy. the binding is signed on front free endpaper verso.
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TROLLOPE Anthony
The Three Clerks. A Novel. MAURICE BARING'S COPY WITH SIGNATURE AND BOOKPLATE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, some mild spotting as usual; tastefully bound in contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards ruled in gilt, backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and third compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, joints very lightly rubbed, a most attractive copy. MAURICE BARING'S COPY WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON BLANK PRELIMINARY OF FIRST VOLUME, AND BOOKPLATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. The set also carries the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Andrew Noble of Ardmore and Ardardan on front paste-downs. The Trollope Society records that the author's sixth novel was written 'mainly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office entailed a good deal of travelling'. The story is drawn from his memories of his work as a clerk at the GPO in St Martin-le-Grand, and Richard Mullen has called it the most autobiographical of Trollope's novels. The novel was not reprinted in its original three-volume form. A UNIQUE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A SCARCE WORK. NCBEL III, 882; Sadleir 6; Wolff 6796.
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THOMAS Edward
Maurice Maeterlinck. BRIGHT, FRESH COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 7 plates, some faint offsetting to free endpapers, title lightly spotted; decorative red, upper board and backstrip framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, red top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, fresh copy of a scarce work. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Eckert, p.215.
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LAS VERGNAS Raymond
Chesterton, Belloc, Baring. Translated by C.C. Martindale. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, title lightly spotted, neat contemporary signature on front free endpapr; plum cloth, gilt back, uncut, a good, firm copy. Sullivan 765.
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DURRELL Gerald
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons. Drawings by Edward Mortelmans. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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BERESFORD Maurice
New Towns of the Middle Ages. Town Plantation in England, Wales and Gascony. BRIGHT, CRISP, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 13 plates and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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MAURICE Major-General Sir Frederick
The History of the Scots Guards from the Creation of the Regiment to the Eve of the Great War. BRIGHT, CRISP SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispieces, 38 plates (6 in colour), numerous maps and plans as plates and in the text, and 3 folding maps on japon; original blue cloth, upper boards with regimental crest blocked in gilt and silver, gilt backs, blue tops, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.10; White, p.44.
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BARING Maurice
In My End is my Beginning. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and plate in photogravure (original tissue guards present); blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Baring's account of the last period in the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Includes a bibliography.
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COLLIS Maurice
The Great Within. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, plates, maps in the text and large folding map at end, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original purple cloth, gilt back, yellow top, boards lightly faded at lower edge else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges. Crisp copy of Collis's chronological account of Peking, the Forbidden City, and Chinese dynastic history from the end of the Ming period. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MAETERLINCK Maurice
The Life of the White Ant. Translated by Alfred Sutro. [Second English Impression]. SECOND ENGLISH IMPRESSION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published three months after the first English edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ALLWARD Maurice
Hurricane Special. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; pictorial laminated boards, a near fine copy.
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MAURICE Colonel F.J.
Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War Oiffice. [Facsimile reissue] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With small personal book-pabel on front free endpaper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1887.
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BRAY Maurice I.
Railway Tickets, Timetables and Handbills. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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ASHLEY Maurice
The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of King Charles I. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 6 coloured plates (2 double-page), 63 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in dustwrapper.
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COLLIS Maurice
Foreign Mud. Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates, and 5 full-page maps in the text; original yellow cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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COLLIS Maurice
Raffles. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
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HEWSON Maurice
Escape from the French. Captain Hewson's Narrative (1803-1809). Edited and with an Introduction by Antony Brett-James. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrations (a number double-page) in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TROWBRIDGE W.R.H.
A Beau Sabreur. Maurice de Saxe, Marshal of France: his Loves, his Laurels and his Times 1696-1750. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and plates, endpapers lightly spotted; original maroon cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and white, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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[SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN]
Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1946/1947. Revue de la Publicite et des Arts Graphiques en Suisse. Edited by Maurice Collet. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page and mounted); pictorial wrappers, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled, fore-edges lightly browned else a good, firm copy. Valuable annual survey of printed graphic design in Switzerland. Includes essays by Tschichold, Wenger, Neubold and others.
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BUCKMASTER Maurice
Specially Employed. The Story of British Aid to French Patriots of the Resistance. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 17 plates on 14, and 2 illustrations (one full-page) and full-page map in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, gilt back, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. One of the earliest separate publications on the activities of Special Operations Executive by the Head of French Section. 'I do not claim that the incidents described in these pages are completely factually accurate' (Preface). 'Quite so' responds Foot, although he is also the first to recognise the restrictions placed upon the author at the time. Enser, p.410; Foot, p.455.
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BUCKMASTER Maurice
They Fought Alone. The Story of British Agents in France. [Popular Book Club Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges lightly browned as often; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small hole at centre of backstrip. Complementing 'Specially Employed' (1952), this is the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart, content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. This issue was published a year after Odhams' first edition; the inevitable page-tanning aside, this is a remarkable copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.410 (recording the first edition).
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DEAN Sir Maurice
The Royal Air Force and Two World Wars. Foreword by Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur T. Harris. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BONNER-SMITH D.
Russian War, 1854. Baltic and Black Sea. Official Correspondence. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 5 folding maps on japon (a number folding), top and fore-edge mildly spotted; original series binding of ivory buckram, upper board blocked and ruled in gilt, navy buckram back lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With contemporary signature dated 1944 of a member of the ship's company of Colony-class light cruiser HMS MAURITIUS.
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CARPENTER Maurice
The Indifferent Horseman. The Divine Comedy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.
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BUCKMASTER Maurice
They Fought Alone. The Story of British Agents in France IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, red ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Complementing 'Specially Employed' (1952), this is an elegant copy of the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart, content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.410 (recording the first edition).
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EDELMAN Maurice
Shark Island. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
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HELM Sarah
A Life in Secrets. The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in blind, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. The first substantial account of Atkins's search for SOE's numerous women agents who disappeared in Occupied Europe (principally France) during WWII. ALREADY UNCOMMON, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BURTON Maurice
Wild Animals of the British Isles. [First Large Format Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST LARGE FORMAT EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of green faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The successor to 'Step's' Animal Life (1921), and effectively a new book substantially extended and rewritten by Burton in 1960. This is the first appearance of the work in the larger 'Reference' format. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Marren, pp. 154-156.
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COLLIS Maurice
Stanley Spencer. A Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrated endpapers; pale green boards, green cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TUGWELL Maurice
Arnhem. A Case Study. Foreword by General Sir John Hackett. [Maps by Christopher Fayers.] THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RUBY Marcel
F Section, SOE. The Buckmaster Networks. [Foreword by Jean Pierre-Bloch.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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NORTHCOTT Maurice P.
Ensign 8. Renown and Repulse. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with large folding coloured plans, and numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. As always with this series, an excellent technical account. INCREASINGLY SCARCE. Law, 0987
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RAVEN, Alan
Man o' War 1-7. [THE SERIES COMPLETE.]. County Class Cruisers [with] V and W Class Destroyers [with] Battleships Rodney and Nelson [with] Hunt Class Escort Destroyers [with] Town Class Cruisers [with] Hood [with] Flower Class Corvettes. COMPLETE SET IN NEAR FINE STATE
7 vols., 4to., First Edition, each volume with large double-page gatefold coloured plates (bearing numerous detailed line diagrams), and very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, laminated as issued, covers a little browned else a near fine set. The series comprises: 1: County Class Cruisers (Raven & Roberts, 1979); 2: V and W Class Destroyers (Raven and Roberts, 1979); 3: Battleships Rodney and Nelson (Raven and Roberts, 1979); 4: Hunt Class Escort Destroyers (Raven and Roberts, 1981); 5: Town Class Cruisers (Raven and Roberts, 1980); 6: Hood (Northcott, 1981); 7: Flower Class Corvettes (Preston and Raven, 1982). Full set of this outstanding series compiled and illustrated by some the leading warship historians of their generation. Each volume provides a detailed technical and operational history with valuable photographs and excellent illustrations depicting camouflage and colour schemes. Essentially a successor to Bivouac's Ensign series and forerunner of Conway's later 'Anatomy of the Ship' series. No. 5 was first published as Ensign 5 (1975); No. 6 as an Ensign Special (1975); No. 7 as Ensign 3 (1973). ALL VOLUMES ARE INCREASINGLY UNCOMMON, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. Law, 1029, 1070, 1000, 1069, 1030, 0986, 1011 respectively.
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LOUVRE.
Drawings in the Louvre. The French Drawings [with] The Italian Drawings [with] The German, Flemish and Dutch Drawings. [Complete set.]. Compiled by Maurice Serullaz and Roseline Bacou. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE SET OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
3 vols., sm. folio, First Edition thus, with numerous fine reproductions throughout; dark olive cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in white, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: The French Drawings (Serullaz); Vol. II: The Italian Drawings (Bacou); Vol. III: The German, Flemish and Dutch Drawings (Bacou). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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