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EPICS OF ESPIONAGE.

Newman, Bernard, · 1953

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Werner Laurie, London, 1953, 4th imp., 270pp, red cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, decorated and lettered dustwrapper, a critical examination of cases of espionage, some from history but the majority from WW2 and a few from the cold war, cloth lightly rubbed and bum...

THE ASSASSIN.

Blythe, Ronald, · 2004

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Black Dog Books, Norwich, 2004, 1st edn., [x], 275pp, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper, very lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: vcery lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

TO HELL AND BACK.

Rolfe, Mel, · 1999

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

Grub Street, London, 1999, paperback, 192pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., larger format (9 x 6" approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, a collection of accounts by surviving aircrew of Bomber Command, the branch of the Royal Air Force which took the war to Germany 1939-45 and which...

TITANIC SURVIVOR : THE MEMOIRS OF VIOLET JESSOP STEWARDESS.

Maxtone-Graham, John (intro., ed. and annotated by), · 1999

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Budding Books, Stroud, 1999, trade paperback, x, 238pp, [viii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, a slightly misleading title, these are not the memoirs just Titanic survival but the memoirs of a stewardess, born in the Argentine of Irish immigrant parents she spent her working l...

DARK SKY, DEEP WATER.

Franks, Norman, · 1999

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,848)

Grub Street, London, 1999, paperback, vi, 218pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., larger format (9 x 6" approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, first hand accounts by aircrew and u-boat crews of encounters between German submarines and Allied aircraft, including RAF Coastal Command, Ro...

GOOD HARBOR.

Diamant, Anita, · 2002

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Macmillan, London, 2002, 1st edn. UK, 255pp, 1p acknowledgments, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

SURVIVORS - British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War.

Bennett, G. H. and R., · 1999

£21.50 (€25.77 | $28.40 | ¥4,536)

Hambledon Press, London, 1999, 1st edn., xv, 287pp, half tone frontis, 8pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text half tone ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the battle to survive by British merchant seamen durin...

THE FIRST CASUALTY : THE OCCUPATION OF JERSEY and THE GERMAN UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL.

Anon., · 1995

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Sanctuary Inns, St. Helier, ND (copyright 1995), paperback, 56pp, numerous in text coloured and half tone photo ills., plan and diagram, larger format (8 x 8" approx.), coloured decorated wrappers, a double volume, a pictorial record of the occupation of Jersey and a guide to...

BODYLINE - The Novel.

Wheeler, Paul, · 1984

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Faber and Faber, London, 1984, trade paperback, 211pp, pictorial montage wrappers, a novelisation of English/Australian cricket at Test level in the early 1930's, sl. slant to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges and pages tanned, very good,

THE BEST ENGLISH.

Vallins, G. H., · 1963

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1963, 1st in imprint, paperback, 224pp, #XP7, coloured decorated upper wrapper, the third volume of trilogy on the English language, an exploration of literature quoting profusely from sources as varied as Shakespeare and Wodehouse, Chaucer and Dylan Thomas...

THE RED BERET.

Saunders, Hilary St. George (aka Francis Beeding), · 1975

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

New English Library, London, 1975, new edn., 1st in imprint, paperback, 315pp, map in text, [v] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art by Colin Andrew, a detailed account of the birth and growth of British airborne troops in WW2, the establishment of the Central Landing School,...

COASTAL RESORTS OF EAST ANGLIA - The Early Days.

Rouse, Michael, · 1982

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,848)

Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1982, 1st edn., paperback original, 181pp, many in text half tone photo ills., large format 9 x 7 inches, coloured pictorial paper wrappers embossed with cloth grain, an account of the development of the seaside holiday and the resorts of the Norfolk...

VICTORIAN ENGINEERING.

Rolt, L. T. C., · 1980

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1980, reprint, paperback, 300pp, 48pp half tone mainly photo ills., [iii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper by Humphrey Sutton, a wide ranging survey of the revolutionary engineering feats of Victoria's reign, lightly rubbed at extrems., li...

VICTORIAN ENGINEERING.

Rolt, L. T. C., · 1974

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, paperback, 300pp, 48pp half tone mainly photo ills., [iii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper by Humphrey Sutton, a wide ranging survey of the revolutionary engineering feats of Victoria's reign, sl. roll and slant to spine, lightly ru...

MEN OF DUNWICH - The Story of a Vanished Town.

Parker, Rowland, · 1980

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Paladin / Granada, London, 1980, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 272pp, several line drawings and maps in text, pictorial wrappers, the story of Dunwich in Suffolk, one of the most prosperous mediaeval ports in England which has lost it's battle with the sea, rubbed at extre...

BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.

Pape, Richard, · 1970

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Pan Books, London, 1970, 3rd imp., paperback, 254pp, 4pp half tone photo ills, 5 plans/maps in text, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the classic tale of an airman's WW2 bombing mission: the author was navigator in an RAF Stirling returning from a Bombing missi...

THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY -VOLUME ll : From the French Revolution to the Present.

Kinder, Hermann and Hilgemann, Werner (trans. by Ernest A. Menze), · 1986

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1986, reprint, paperback, 328pp, numerous in text coloured diagrams and maps by Harald and Ruth Bukor, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine and at lower cnr. upper wrapper, very good plus,

SIX ARMIES IN NORMANDY - From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris June 6th-August 25th, 1944.

Keegan, John, · 1992

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pimlico, London, 1992, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xviii, 365pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., 8 in text maps, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the campaign from the invasion of Normandy to the Liberation of Paris but also an examination of the men, the comm...

FEW SURVIVED.

Gray, Edwyn, · 1987

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Futura, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, paperback, xiv, 298pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text diagrams, [vi] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, a history and account of every peacetime submarine disaster, with appendices of pioneer/experimental submarines lost before 1900...

JOURNEY TO KARS.

Glazebrook, Philip, · 1987

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1987), reprint, trade paperback, 247pp, in text map, [v] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, fascinated by the accounts of Victorian travellers into the Ottoman Empire, the author retraces their steps through Serbia, Greece and Asia Minor to the l...