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THE BULL OF MINOS.

Cottrell, Leonard, · 1955

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 2213pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 2 maps and 2 facsimiles in text, [i] ad., pictorial upper wrapper, the story of the great archeological discoveries of Schliemann and Evans in Greece and Crete, revised for t...

THE UNFINISHED CLUE.

Heyer, Georgette, · 1986

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Grafton, London, 1986, reprint, paperback, 208pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), sl. slant to spine, light vertical crease at spine and upper hinge, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

THE CONQUEROR.

Heyer, Georgette, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1966, 5th imp., paperback, 349pp, [iii] ads., #M63, pictorial wrappers by J. Oval, sl. slant and roll to lightly creased spine, rubbed at extrems. esp. tail of spine, small mark upper wrapper, edges well tanned, good,

TANKS IN BATTLE.

Rogers, Colonel H. C. B. OBE, · 1965

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Seeley Service, London, 1965, 1st edn., 240pp, coloured photo frontis, 48 half tone plates, 8 in text maps, red cloth with black title panel lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, photo pictorial dustwrapper, Volume Vlll in the Imperial Services Library ...

MASQUERADE - The Amazing Camouflage Deception of World War II.

Reit, Seymour, · 1979

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Robert Hale, London, 1979, xii, 255pp [253pp], 22pp half tone photo ills., green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, publishing details as stated but spine marked 'bca' at tail, an account of the methods, use and successes of camouflage during WW2, and of ...

AND THE DAWN CAME UP LIKE THUNDER.

Rawlings, Leo, · 1972

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Rawlings, Chapman Publications, 1972, 1st edn., xxxi, facsimile, half tone photo ills. and 119 plates of the author's work in text, maps at front endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the experiences of an artist, a Gunner/Signaller ...

THE KELLY.

Poolman, Kenneth (foreword by Admiral The Earl Mountbatten of Burma), · 1954

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

William Kimber, London, 1954, 2nd edn., 219pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 1 in text map, maps at endpapers, [v] ads., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, HMS Kelly was one of a new class of destroyer, the leader of the fifth flotilla under the...

TALES FROM THE MESS - A Military Miscellany.

Noonan, Miles, · 1983

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Hutchinson, London, 1983, 1st edn., 176pp, in text line drawings, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an affectionate and thoroughly amusing collection of anecdotes about various units of the British Army, from the Boer war until almost the present...

ONE FAMILY'S WAR.

Mayhew, Patrick (ed.), · 1985

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Hutchinson, London, 1985, 1st edn., [xii], 237pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, devising a new form of correspondence, in 1939 the Mayhew family (of Felthorpe Hall, Near Norwich) and their cousins, the Howarth...

THE LAST DITCH.

Lampe, David, · 1968

£49.50 (€59.33 | $65.40 | ¥10,443)

Cassell, London, 1968, 1st edn., [xx], 219pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., maps and line drawings in text, blue cloth lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a detailed study of the planned espionage and sabotage groups put in place in Great Britai...

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HANDBOOK NO. 1 - PERSONAL PROTECTION AGAINST GAS.

HMSO, · 1938

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

HMSO, London, 1938, 2nd edn., vi, 124pp, [iv] ads., half tone photo ills. and diagrams in text, ads. at endpapers, small format about 6 x 4 inches, buff paper covered boards backed with brown cloth at spine, lettered in black upper and lower boards, the first in a series of ...

THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL.

Hilton, James, · 1944

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Macmillan, London, 1944, 1st edn., x, 121pp, light blue cloth lettered and decorated in maroon at spine and upper board, pictorial montage dustwrapper, a biographical novel of an episode in the life of Dr. Corydon Wassell, Lt. Cdr. US Naval Reserve, who, in the face of the ad...

INVASION 1940 - An Account of the German Preparations and the British Counter-measures.

Fleming, Peter, · 1958

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Readers Union, London, 1958, club edn., 288pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., facsimiles and line drawings in text, red cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper, an account of the British civilian and military preparations for invasion after Dunkirk, and t...

TARGET BERLIN - Mission 250 : 6 March 1944.

Ethell, Jeffrey and Price, Alfred, · 1981

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Jane's, London, 1981, 1st edn. UK, xii, 212pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, wrapround pictorial dustwrapper, a minute-by-minute account of the first large scale American daylight raid on Berlin, mission 250 on ...

THE BATTLE OF THE V-WEAPONS 1944-45.

Collier, Basil, · 1964

£29.50 (€35.36 | $38.97 | ¥6,224)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1964, 1st edn., 192pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 3 maps and 3 diagrams in text, grey/blue dichromatic cloth lettered in red at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author, an intelligence officer with the Air Defence Staff during WW2 provides a det...

FINEST HOUR.

Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil, · 2000

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, ND (circa 2000), 7th impression, x, 418pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, manuscript facsimiles at endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the book of the BBC TV series of the same name, an acco...

DUEL OF WITS.

Churchill, Peter, · 1953

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1953, 1st edn., 319pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper, written in the third person the author's account of his second, third and fourth missions into south-east wartime France as a resistance organiser, of the arming...

THE ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT (The 9th Regiment of Foot).

Carew, Tim (intro. by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks), · 1967

£15.50 (€18.58 | $20.48 | ¥3,270)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1967, 1st edn., 157pp, numerous in text half tone ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, in the Famous Regiments series, ex public library copy, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, stamps to title and verso, glu...

NO PASSING GLORY - The Full and Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire, VC, DSO**, DFC.

Boyle, Andrew, · 1957

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

The Reprint Society, London, 1957, club edn., 384pp, deep turquoise cloth with maroon title panel lettered and edged in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, biography of Leonard Cheshire, from his time at Stowe School, Merton College, Oxford and ...

IMAGES OF AIR WAR 1939-45.

Bowyer, Chaz, · 1983

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1983, 1st edn., 120pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and double title, half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, including 200...