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COLOR IN OIL - Paintings by Ferdinand Petrie.

Blake, Wendon and Petrie, Ferdinand, · 1982

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Watson-Guptill, New York, 1982, 1st thus US, paperback, 80pp, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, in the Artist's Painting Library series, originally published as part 1 of The Color Book, a step-by-step ...

MAKING LITTLE BOXES FROM WOOD.

Bennett, John, · 1992

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, Lewes, 1992, 1st edn., paperback original, [viii], 136pp, half tone photo frontis, numerous in text half tone photo ills., line drawings and diagrams, large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, everything the asp...

HOW IT ALL BEGAN - Up The High Street.

Baren, Maurice, · 0

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Past Times, Oxford, ND, paperback, 144pp, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, large format (9.5 x 7.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial montage wrappers, in a sequel to his account of the origins of famous trade names and marks, the author relates the origins of High S...

HOW IT ALL BEGAN - The Stories Behind Those Famous Names.

Baren, Maurice, · 1992

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Smith Settle, Otley - West Yorkshire, 1992, 1st edn., paperback original, x, 125pp, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, large landscape format (9 x 9.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial montage wrappers, featuring over 80 famous names from Airfix, Ambrosia and Atora to...

SCRAPBOOK OF VICTORY - Further Extracts from a War-time Scrapbook.

Winn, Godfrey, · 1945

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Hutchinson, London, ND [1945], 1st edn., 124pp, half tone photo frontis, 30pp half tone photo ills., large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in white at spine, account of many theatres of the war by the war correspondent in diary format of the period ...

THE FALKLANDS : THE AFTERMATH.

Way, Peter (Consultant Editor), · 1984

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Marshall Cavendish, London, ND (copyright 1984), 144pp, coloured photo pictorial double title, coloured and half tone ills., diagrams and maps throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (12 x 9.5 inches approx.), coloured photo pictorial laminated boards with matching dustw...

PRELUDE TO WAR.

Elson, Robert T. and the Editors of Time-Life Books, · 1977

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

Time-Life Books, Alexandria - Virginia, 1977, 3rd imp., 216pp, coloured and half tone photo ills., maps and facsimiles throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (11.5 x 9.5 inches approx.), wraparound half tone photo pictorial boards, a pictorial account of the politics of...

INVASION! - The D-Day Story June 6 1944.

Cooper, John St. John, · 1954

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Beaverbrook Newspapers, London , 1954, 1st edn., unpaginated [120pp], maps, facsimiles and half tone photo ills. throughout, maps at endpapers, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in green at spine, decorated in gilt upper board, to commemorate the tent...

MEDALS AND DECORATIONS.

Angus, Ian, · 1973

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Ward Lock, London, 1973, 1st edn., 128pp, half tone frontis, 4pp coloured ills., map, line drawings and half tone ills. throughout, large format (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, on collecting medals and decorations and tra...

MEN BEHIND VICTORY.

Stokes, Donald, · 1944

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Hutchinson, London, ND [1944], 1st edn., 168pp, frontis and 14pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in white at spine, based on and expanded from a series of radio plays broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1943, an account of some of the men behind the increase in eff...

A BRIDGE TOO FAR.

Ryan, Cornelius, · 1975

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Book Club Associates, London, 1975, club edn., 478pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 10 in text maps, double page chart of command, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound pictorial dustwrapper, an account of Operation Market-Garden, the airborne operation in Septembe...

GRAF SPEE.

Powell, Michael, · 1956

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1956, 1st edn., 224pp, coloured frontis, maps at endpapers, green cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, written by the director of the J. Arthur Rank feature film 'The Battle of the River Plate', written after interviewing many of the vetera...

WESTBOUND TANKS.

Polyakov, A., · 1943

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Hutchinson, London, ND [1943], 100pp, frontis and 6pp half tone photo ills., beige cloth lettered in black at spine, an account of a Soviet tank unit of 5 KV1 tanks, from their building at the havy tank plant in the Urals, transfer to the command of Lt. Astakhov and put throu...

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE US AIR FORCE.

Mondey, David, · 1971

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Ian Allan, London, 1971, 1st edn., 96pp, 144pp half tone photo ills., coloured photo pictorial laminated boards, 96pp of text history relating the birth and development of the US Air Force from WW1 to 1970, with a further 144pp of captioned photos illustrating the history fro...

THE NINE DAYS WONDER (The Operation Dynamo).

Masefield, John, · 1941

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

William Heinemann, London, 1941, reprint, xvi, folding chart, 57pp, [iii] poetry, 6pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lettered and bordered in blind at upper board, a account by the Poet Laureate of the last nine days of the BEF's campaign in Belg...

THE COUNTRY HOUSES OF NORFOLK.

Winkley, George, · 1986

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)

Tyndale Press / Panda Publishing, Lowestoft, 1986, 1st edn., 192pp, 16 coloured and numerous in text half tone photo ills., coloured endpapers, landscape format (about 9 x 12 inches), green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a survey of the numerous...

LOWESTOFT - Town Against the Sea.

Steward, A. V., · 1950

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Jarrolds, Norwich, ND [1950], 1st edn., paperback original, 40pp, incl. 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial paper wrappers, a history of Lowestoft, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. rusting to staples, very good plus,

LOWESTOFT - Town Against the Sea.

Steward, A. V., · 1950

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Jarrolds, Norwich, ND [1950], 1st edn., paperback original, 40pp, incl. 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial paper wrappers, a history of Lowestoft, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. rusting to staples, very good plus,

LOWESTOFT - Town Against the Sea.

Steward, A. V., · 1950

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Jarrolds, Norwich, ND [1950], 1st edn., paperback original, 40pp, incl. 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial paper wrappers, a history of Lowestoft, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. rusting to staples, very good plus,

LOWESTOFT - Town Against the Sea.

Steward, A. V., · 1950

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Jarrolds, Norwich, ND [1950], 1st edn., paperback original, 40pp, incl. 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial paper wrappers, a history of Lowestoft, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. rusting to staples, very good plus,