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THE FOUR CONTINENTS - Being More Discursions on Travel, Art and Life.

Sitwell, Osbert, · 1955

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Readers Union, London, 1955, club edn., [viii], 246pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, travels in Europe, Asia, Africa and Ameirca with reflections, digressions and comment, cocked, bumped at extrems., upper ed...

ZOO QUEST IN GUIANA.

Attenborough, David, · 1958

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The Reprint Society, London, 1958, club edn., ix, 210pp, line drawing title page, 16pp half tone photo ills., map in text, green cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the second j...

THE STORY OF ENGLAND - Makers of the Realm.

Bryant, Arthur, · 1955

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The Reprint Society, London, 1955, club edn., 413pp, cream cloth with dark brown title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, the first of a two volume 'Story of England', this volume covering from earliest times to th...

LEOPARD IN MY LAP.

Denis, Michaela, · 1956

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Companion Book Club, London, 1956, club edn., 288pp, coloured frontis., 2pp coloured and 32pp half tone photo ills. by Armand Denis, light green cloth with dark green title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of safar...

A YEAR OF SPACE - A Chapter in Autobiography.

Linklater, Eric, · 1954

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The Reprint Society, London, 1954, club edn., 319pp, turquoise cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the author's travela in Korea (during the war) and to Australia and New Zealan...

FOUR GUINEAS - A Journey through West Africa.

Huxley, Elspeth, · 1955

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The Reprint Society, London, 1955, club edn., 320pp, 28pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, black cloth with red title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, the author's account of the countries and peoples of Gamb...

ANNAPURNA - Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak.

Herzog, Maurice, · 1954

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The Reprint Society, London, 1954, club edn., 288pp, col'd pictorial rear eps., col'd frontis, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, dark green cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an acco...

VENTURE TO THE INTERIOR.

van der Post, Laurens, · 1953

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The Reprint Society, London, 1953, club edn., 254pp, frontis in line and 3 maps in text, green cloth with maroon title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, the author, sent on a government mission to Nyasaland in 194...

OF WHALES AND MEN.

Robertson, R. B., · 1958

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The Reprint Society, London, 1958, club edn., 255pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, blue cloth with red title panel at spine, lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the men and their work, whaling in the ...

DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE and DOCTOR AT SEA.

Gordon, Richard, · 1955

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The Reprint Society, London, 1955, club edn., 318pp, maroon cloth with black title panel at spine lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, very sl. cocked, sl. bloom to cloth with a little loss to dressing lower board, dustwrapper: lig...

WORLD WAR ONE - A Narrative.

Warner, Philip, · 1999

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Cassell, London, 1999, 3rd imp., paperback, 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper by Hulton Getty, in the Cassell Military Classics series, a narrative account of the war 1914-18, from the causes through the years of conflict to the Pe...

TRAFALGAR - British Battles Series.

Warner, Oliver, · 1966

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Pan Books, London, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 177pp, 15pp app. and index, 12pp half tone ills, 1 map of fleet movements before Trafalgar, 3 in text line drawings, the Fighting Memorandum and plan of Nelson's approach, wraparound pictorial cover art by James Leech, in th...

SCRAMBLE - A Narrative History of the Battle of Britain.

Gelb, Norman, · 1986

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Pan Books, London, 1986, 1st in imprint, paperback, xv inc. maps, 286pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., [ii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, a vivid and compelling narrative of the Battle of Britain, compiled from interviews, diaries, letters, combat reports and official pa...

GALLEON.

Pope, Dudley, · 1987

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Arrow, London, 1987, 1st in imprint, paperback, [viii] inc. map, 258pp, [v] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art (unattrib.), further novel in the Yorke series: Charles II has been restored, but the new Governor to the Caribbean ignores Ned Yorke's warnings about the Spanish,...

DECOY.

Pope, Dudley, · 1985

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Hamlyn, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 324pp, pictorial montage upper wrapper (unattrib.), Yorke family saga continues involving Lt. Cmr. Edward Yorke RN in solving the Enigma code, very faint vertical crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good...

ADMIRAL.

Pope, Dudley, · 1983

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Hamlyn, London, 1983, 1st in imprint, paperback, [viii] inc. map, 310pp, [ii] ads., pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), the second novel in the Yorke series: the restoration of Charles II does not bring peace with the Spanish and Ned Yorke leads more raids against the enemy, fain...

PACIFIC INTERLUDE.

Wilson, Sloan, · 1985

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Sphere Books, London, 1985, 1st edn., paperback original, [x], 367pp, [v] ads., pictorial montage upper wrapper (unattrib.), a novel of the supply vessels to the Pacific theatre of WW2, very sl. roll to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

ATLANTIC CONVOY.

Williams, David, · 1982

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Pan Books, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, 237pp, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art by Brian Sweet, a fictional account of an eastbound 1942 convoy, the Admiralty planners, the Axis U-boat direction and the actions of the convoy, escorts and u-boats, edges t...

DEVIL TO PAY.

Parkinson, C. Northcote, · 1977

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Magnum / Methuen, London, 1977, 1st in imprint, paperback, 273pp, [iv] maps, [v] ads., wraparound pictorial montage (unattrib.), the first Richard Delancey novel introducing him fighting the French in the English Channel, sl. roll and slant to spine, light creasing at spine a...

BULLER'S GUNS.

Hough, Richard, · 1982

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Corgi, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, paperback, 320pp, wraparound pictorial cover art (unattrib.), the first novel in the Archy Buller trilogy, set in Victorian imperialist times, light vertical crease in spine, faint creasing to wrappers, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned...