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THE COUNTRY LIFE POCKET BOOK OF GLASS.

Wills, Geoffrey, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Country Life, London, 1966, 1st edn., 317pp, numerous in text line ills., pocket book size, dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, '...a comprehensive... guide containing all the basic knowledge that the collector will require...', edges tann...

MORE LOOKING IN JUNK SHOPS.

Bedford, John, · 1968

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Max Parrish, London, 1968, 2nd imp. of 2nd edn., 252pp, numerous in text line ills. by Susan Holland, decorative endpapers, pocket book size, turquoise cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, a guide on how to spot the collectable antique amongst the ...

ARK ROYAL.

[Dorling, Capt. H. Taprell ('Taffrail')] attributed to, · 1942

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

HMSO, London, 1942, 1st edn., paperback, 64pp, many half tone photos and 2 maps, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", relates the history of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, built 1937 and involved in the search for the Graf Spee, the campaign in Norway incl. an attack on...

SCRAPBOOK OF VICTORY - Further Extracts from a War-time Scrapbook.

Winn, Godfrey, · 1945

£7.20 (€8.63 | $9.51 | ¥1,519)

Hutchinson, London, ND (c1945), 124pp incl. frontis and 30pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, account of many theatres of the war by the war correspondent in diary format of the period from January 1943 until May 1945, sl. cocked, rubbed and...

THE BIRTH OF THE LUFTWAFFE.

Schliephake, Hanfried, · 1971

£11.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | ¥2,426)

Ian Allan, London, 1971, 1st edn., 80pp text, unpaginated 144pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a mainly pictorial account (over 200 photos) of the development and build-up of the Luftwaffe between the late 1920's and...

OPERATION FRESHMAN - The Rjukan Heavy Water Raid 1942.

Wiggan, Richard, · 1986

£16.10 (€19.30 | $21.27 | ¥3,397)

William Kimber, London, 1986, 1st edn., 176pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the attacks on the heavy water plant at Vemork in Norway, (attacked successfully by the Linge Company ...

SECOND TO NONE.

Kent, Alexander (Douglas Reeman), · 2000

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Arrow Books, London, 2000, 1st in imprint, paperback, 309pp, [i] ads., wrap-around pictorial cover-art by Geoffrey Huband, in this novel set in 1815, Captain Adam Bolitho is in command of the frigate Unrivalled, on the eve of Waterloo, edges tanned, fine,

CULLODEN.

Prebble, John, · 0

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Penguin Books, London, ND, 24th imp., trade paperback, 360pp, [vi] ads., 2 maps in line in text, col'd pictorial wrappers, a reconstruction of the battle and of the months or repression and brutality that followed it, from the common man's viewpoint using sources of contempor...

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.

Harrer, Heinrich (intro Peter Fleming), · 1953

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953, 4th imp., corrected, xvi, 288pp, col'd frontis and 24pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, pictorial dustwrapper, the classic account of the famous Austrian mountaineer, climbing in the Himalayas ...

ENGLISH MERCHANT SHIPPING 1460-1540.

Burwash, Dorothy, · 1969

£14.20 (€17.02 | $18.76 | ¥2,996)

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1969, 1st in imprint, xii, 259pp, 5 plates (3 in line incl. map, 2 half tone), blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissa...

TIBETAN MARCHES.

Mignot, André (translated by Peter Fleming), · 1950

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

The Travel Book Club, London, ND (c1950), club edn., 288pp, frontis and 24pp half tone photo ills, 3pp maps, red cloth lettered in black at spine, photo montage dustwrapper, an account of the travels of a French doctor 1946/7, through Tibet, disguised as a mendicant lama he t...

THE AGE OF ELEGANCE 1812-1822.

Bryant, Arthur, · 1950

£8.70 (€10.43 | $11.49 | ¥1,835)

Collins and the Book Society, London, 1950, club edition simultanous issue, 450pp, maps at endpapers, battle plans in text, magenta cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lower edge uncut, col'd pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib), an account of British involvement in the Peninsular W...

A PORTRAIT OF LORD NELSON.

Warner, Oliver, · 1959

£8.40 (€10.07 | $11.10 | ¥1,772)

The Reprint Society, London, 1959, xx, 331pp, 4pp half tone ills., battle plans at eps., quarter bound in cream paper at spine with black paper sides, dark blue title panel at spine lettered in gilt, top edge col'd, col'd pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib), a biography of the B...

INVASION '44 - The Full Story of D-Day.

Turner, John Frayn, · 1959

£11.30 (€13.54 | $14.93 | ¥2,384)

George G. Harrap, London, 1959, 1st edn., 253pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib), the story of the greatest ever invasion from the sea as 130,000 men of the Allied forces overcame Germ...

SOPHIA'S SON - The Story of a Suffolk Parson, The Rev. Henry Thompson MA, his life and times 1841-1916.

Thompson, Dorothy, · 1969

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Terence Dalton, Laveneham - Suffolk, 1969, 1st edn., 160pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., in text half tone drawings, white cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, ordained in 1865 the Rev. Henry Thompson served as vicar at Farnham (1870), Aldeburgh (18...

PIED PIPER.

Shute, Nevil, · 1951

£7.20 (€8.63 | $9.51 | ¥1,519)

Heinemann, London, 1951, reprint, [iv], 283pp, blue cloth with maroon titles panel at spine lettered in silver, author device in blind upper bd., an old man, in 1940 France, accidentally gathers a group of children as he tries to return to England during the German invasion, ...

STEPHEN MORRIS.

Shute, Nevil, · 1961

£8.40 (€10.07 | $11.10 | ¥1,772)

Heinemann, London, 1961, 1st edn., [xii], 273pp, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper by 'Fratini', two short novels pre-dating the authors's first novel but unpublished until after his death, with the same character, Stephen Morris, and themes of...

WELCOME HOME.

Wicks, Ben, · 1991

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Bloomsbury, London, 1991, 1st edn., 189pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, true stories of the joys and pain of soldiers returning from World War II, when hasty marriages between childhood sweethearts in 1940 seeme...

BROWN'S SIGNALLING - How to Learn the International Code of Visual and Sound Signals.

Palmer, A. R. (revised by), · 1974

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Brown Son and Ferguson, Glasgow, 1974, revised edition, 225pp, illustrations in colour and line, red cloth backed pictorial paper covered bds. lettered in black at spine, a guide to signalling by semaphore, flags, morse, radio, sound, etc. with illustrations of the methods, f...

SEIZING THE ENIGMA - The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943.

Kahn, David, · 1992

£22.40 (€26.85 | $29.59 | ¥4,726)

Souvenir Press, London, 1992, 1st edn., xii, 337pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, maps at eps., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the secret struggle of the cryptographers at Bletchley Park to break and...