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HEINKEL He111 - A Documentary History.
Nowarra, Heinz, · 1980
£11.40 (€13.66 | $15.06 | ¥2,405)
Janes, London, 1980, 1st edn., 256pp, numerous half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, large format (10 x 8 inches), dark olive green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, developed from civilian use, the Heinkel 111 was almost as versatile as...
DANGEROUS LANDING - A First-hand story of Evasion.
Robertson, Henry Ord, DFM, · 1989
£11.30 (€13.54 | $14.93 | ¥2,384)
William Kimber - Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1989, 1st edn., 173pp, [iii] ads., 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimle ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, in December 1942 the author was wireless operator in a Halifax retur...
BRITISH SEA POWER - Naval Policy in the Twentieth Century.
Schofield, B. B., · 1967
£12.80 (€15.34 | $16.91 | ¥2,700)
B. T. Batsford, London, 1967, 1st edn., 271pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author spent a lifetime in the Royal Navy, from Midshipman in HMS Indomitable 1912, Naval Attaché at The ...
HERMANN GÖRING - Hitler Paladin or Puppet?.
Paul, Wolfgang (trans. Helmut Bögler), · 1998
£10.40 (€12.47 | $13.74 | ¥2,194)
Arms and Armour Press, London, 1998, 1st edn. UK, 286pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a biography of the most senior Nazi to survive until the Nuremberg trials, WW1 hero and successor to von Richtofen, an early...
LOST AT SEA - True Stories of Disaster.
Harris, John, · 1990
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Guild Publishing, London, 1990, club edn., x, 244pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, col'd pictorial dustwrapper by Colin Andrew, an account of shipwreck, firte, mutiny, etc. at sea, from the loss of Henry...
SHIPS THROUGH THE AGES.
Lobley, Douglas, · 1979
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Galley Press, London, 1979, 144pp, numerous in text line, half tone and col'd illustrations, large format 11.5 x 8.5 inches, wrapround pictorial cloth lettered in white at spine, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of ships and the men who designed them from the hol...
THE DEFEAT OF JOHN HAWKINS - A Biography of His Third Slaving Voyage.
Unwin, John, · 1961
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Readers Union, London, 1961, club edn., 319pp, 8pp half tone ills., 2 line ills. and 3 maps in text, black cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in silver at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the merchant adventurer John Hawkin's expedition of 1567-8 to W...
THE WRECK OF THE ALMIRANTA - Sir William Phips and the Search for the Hispaniola Treasure.
Earle, Peter, · 1979
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Book Club Associates, London, 1979, club edn., 260pp, 16pp half tone ills., 2 maps in text, pictorial endpapers, green cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictcorial dustwrapper, the story of the wreck of the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion in 1641 and of the various attempts ...
THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER.
Linklater, Eric, · 1974
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
Cardinal Books, London, 1974, paperback, 288pp, numerous col'd and half tone ills. throughout, large format (9.5 x 7.5") paperback, laminated col'd pict. wrappers, account of the three year circumnavigation from 1872 visiting Antarctic, East India islands, New Guinea and Japa...
DARWIN AND THE BEAGLE.
Moorehead, Alan, · 1971
£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971, paperback, 280pp, col'd frontis and numerous col'd and half tone ills. throughout, large format (9.5 x 7.5") paperback, col'd pict. wrappers, compiled from contemporary sources, the account of 'the five year circumnavigation (from 1831) which was...
SELECTED GHOST STORIES.
James, M. R., · 1996
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Senate / Randon House, London, 1996 reprint, trade paperback, 394pp, pictorial wrappers, 16 ghost stories first published as The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James in 1931, lightly rubbed at tips, diag. crease lower cnr. lower wrapper, light stain lower wrapper and final ...
COASTAL RESORTS OF EAST ANGLIA - The Early Days.
Rouse, Michael, · 1982
£11.30 (€13.54 | $14.93 | ¥2,384)
Terence Dalton, Lavenham, 1982, 1st edn., paperback original, 181pp, many in text half tone ills., large format 9 x 7 inches, col'd pictorial paper wrappers embossed with cloth grain, an account of the development of the seaside holiday and the resorts of the Norfolk, Suffolk...
EAST ANGLIA AT WAR 1939-1945.
Johnson, Derek E., · 1978
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Jarrolds, Norwich, 1978, 1st edn., paperback original, 160pp, frontis and many half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, 8 x 6 inches, pictorial wrappers, account of WW2 as it affected the people of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, simultaneous issue with the hardback editi...
A PORTRAIT OF SUFFOLK.
Jobson, Allan, · 1979
£7.70 (€9.23 | $10.17 | ¥1,624)
Robert Hale, London, 1979, reprint, 192pp, double page map in text and 24pp half tone photo ills., orange cloth with dark brown title panel at spine lettered in silver, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of Suffolk's history, landscape, architecture, agriculture, a...
SUFFOLK TALES.
West, H. Mills, · 1982
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Barbara Hopkinson Books, Woodbridge, ND (copyright 1982), 1st edn., paperback original, 148pp, col'd pictorial wrappers, twenty-nine short stories of times past that 'go right to the heart of the Suffolk countryside and its people', lightly rubbed at tips, price tippexed out ...
THE SUNRISE COAST - A Birds Eye view of Lowestoft and North Suffolk.
Waveney District Council (publisher), · 2002
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Waveney District Council, Lowestoft, ND (circa 2002), folder, laminated full colour card containing 8 folding leaflets and a folding map, a Pictorial Guide to Places of Interest in North Suffolk, full colour 2 fold leaflets on Beccles, Bungay, Blyth Valley, Halesworth, Lowest...
DESTROYERS.
Preston, Anthony, · 1982
£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)
Bison Books, London, 1982, 224pp, numerous in text half tone photo ills. and 16pp in colour, large format 12 x 9 inches, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, an illustrated account of the development and use of Destroyers, from the Tor...
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN SUFFOLK FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS.
Harrison, Colin, · 1974
£15.20 (€18.22 | $20.08 | ¥3,207)
Batsford, London, 1974, 2nd imp., unpaginated [128pp], 170 half tone photo ills., brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a photo pictorial record of the county of Suffolk at work and play, in town and country, faint foxing to top edge, dustwrapper...
THE WAR IN THE DESERT.
Parkinson, Roger, · 1976
£8.20 (€9.83 | $10.83 | ¥1,730)
Hart-Davis MacGibbon, London, 1976, 1st edn., 200pp, double illustrated title, 8pp col'd ills. and numerous half tone and line ills. and maps in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an illustrated account of the fluctuating fortunes of...
BLITZ ON BRITAIN - The Bomber Attacks on the United Kingdom, 1939-1945.
Price, Alfred, · 1977
£6.30 (€7.55 | $8.32 | ¥1,329)
Purnell Book Services, Abingdon, 1977, club edn., 192pp, double illustrated title, half tone and line ills. throughout, black cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of the pre-war fears about the effects of bombin...