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HUNTING THE BISMARCK.
Forester, C. S., · 1970
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Mayflower, London, 1970, 3rd imp., paperback, 118pp, 8 maps in text, [i] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, a reconstruction of the events involving the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck in May, 1941, the dramatic sinking of the world's largest capital ship, the battlecr...
THE CHINESE - Portrait of a People.
Fraser, John, · 1982
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Fontana, London, 1982, paperback, 474pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., in text map, [iv] ads., decorated upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. sunning to spine, faint diag. creasing at cnrs., edges tanned, remainder mark lower edge, very good,
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE.
Fishman, Jack (intro. by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt), · 1964
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Pan Books, London, 1964, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 381pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, biography of Winston Churchill's wife Clementine, sl. roll and with light vertical creasing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., li...
THE SEARCH.
Durlacher, Gerhard (trans. Susan Massotty), · 1998
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Serpent's Tail, London, 1998, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback original, [vi], 183pp, pictorial montage wrappers, a German Jew who had previously fled Hitler's regime into Holland, the author thought himself the sole survivor of a group of 89 boys sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 19...
EARLY VICTORIAN NOVELISTS - Essays in Revaluation.
Cecil, David, · 1964
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Fontana, London, 1964, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, [ii] ads., coloured decorated wrappers, essay studies of Dickens, Thackeray, Bronte (Charlotte and Emily), Mrs. Gaskell, Trollope and George Eliot, spine sunned with sl. roll and several vertical creases, a little rubbe...
THE DRIFTERMEN.
Butcher, David, · 1979
£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)
Tops'l Books, Reading, 1979, 1st edn., paperback, 152pp, many in text half tone photo ills., in text line drawing by Syd Brown, large format (9.5 x 7 inches) paperback with photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the life of the men who manned the drifters and the supporting ...
THE YEARS OF ENDURANCE 1793-1802.
Bryant, Arthur, · 1961
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Fontana, London, 1961, 1st in imprint, paperback, 446pp, 7 in text maps, [ii] ads.], lettered paper wrappers, an account of Britain's struggle with revolutionary France from the outbreak of the revolution to the 'Peace of Amiens' - 'a truce of exhaustion', in 1802, covering t...
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF LITERARY TERMS.
Baldick, Chris, · 1997
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ND (circa 1997), reprint, trade paperback, x, 246pp, decorated upper wrapper, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good plus,
RACING DINGHY HANDLING - A Complete Guide.
Proctor, Ian, · 1959
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Adlard Coles, Southampton, 1959, 5th revised edn., 2nd imp., 125pp, frontis line drawing, 16 half tone photo ills. and numerous line drawings/diagrams in text, [i] ads., navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial vignette in silver upper board, pictorial montage e...
THE RED DEVILS - The Story of the British Airborne Forces.
Norton, G. G. (edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks), · 1971
£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)
Lee Cooper, London, 1971, 1st edn., [x], 260pp, half tone photo frontis, in text maps, diagrams and numerous half tone photo ills., maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated dustwrapper, formed in 1940 and quickly expanded, an account of the airborne units of the Brit...
VOICE FROM THE RANKS - A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign by a Sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers.
Gowing, Timothy (ed. by Kenneth Fenwick), · 1954
£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)
Heinemann, London, 1954, new edition, xx, 145pp, in text ills. from contemporary wood-engravings, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the son of a Baptist Minister from Halesworth and later Norwich, a narrative based on the better sources of Sergeant-M...
THE GOVERNESS or Little Female Academy.
Fielding, Sarah (intro. and bibliography by Jill E. Grey), · 1968
£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)
Oxford University Press, London, 1968, facsimile edn., vii, 375pp, in text half tone ill. and facsimiles, in the 'Juvenile Library' series, green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, coloured lettered dustwrapper, a facsimile reproduction of the ...
THE CINQUE PORTS AND ROMNEY MARSH.
Brentnall, Margaret, · 1980
£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)
John Gifford, London, 1980, new enlarged 2nd edn., xiii, 286pp, 8pp coloured photo ills., 90 in text mainly half tone photo ills., light grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, a description of the Cinque Ports and Marsh as the author explored them, takin...
AUSTRALIAN TEST JOURNAL - A Diary of the Test Matches Australia v. England 1954-55.
Arlott, John, · 1955
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Phoenix Sports Books, London, 1955, 1st edn., 160pp, half tone photo frontis, 8pp half tone photo ills., light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed and bumped at extrems., spine and edges tanned, faint foxing to endpapers, no dustwrapper, good plus,
BRITISH COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT - Sixty Years in Pictures.
Ellis, Paul, · 1980
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Jane's Publishing, London, 1980, paperback, 191pp, numerous in text photo ills., large format (8 x 10 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, from the early converted bombers of 1919 through the Empire flying boats to the late 1970's, nearly 300 half tone photos of British...
PORTS OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES.
Wren, Wilfred J., · 1976
£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)
Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1976, 1st edn., 207pp, numerous in text mainly half tone ills, 18 maps and/or plans, white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial wraparound dustwrapper with sl. embossed grain effect, the history of the development of nine ports and harbou...
AIRCRAFT.
Taylor, John W. R., · 1971
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Hamlyn, London, ND (copyright 1971), paperback, 159pp, coloured pictorial title and numerous in text coloured ills. by Gerry Palmer, [i] ads., coloured pictorial wrappers, in the 'Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks' series, the story of flight by the editor of 'Jane's All the World...
KNOW AVIATION.
Mason, Francis K. and Windrow, Martin C., · 1973
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
George Philip, London, 1973, 1st edn., 244pp, numerous in text coloured photo ills., monotone ills. and maps, light blue cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, decorative headband, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an authoritative account of aviation comprising an ex...
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF LONDON.
Lewesdon, John, · 1961
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Wills and Hepworth, Loughborough, copyright 1961, 51pp, numerous in text coloured ills. by John Berry, series 618, coloured pictorial paper covered boards, pictorial plan of London front endpapers, 'Underground' map rear endpapers, a little rubbed at extrems., sl. soiling to ...
THE BUSY CHANNEL.
Ireland, Bernard, · 1981
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1981, 1st edn., 144pp, photo montage pictorial title, numerous in text half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the major commercial waterway of Europe, the vessels using the English Channel have been ph...