Generously illustrated account of the golden age of sail with numerous colour images and full page cut-aways of notable ships. DJ has some mild bumping. Contents crisp and clean. Very good+ [more...]
Handsome volume from the Active service series. With colour frontispiece. Some foxing to page edges. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Readable history of the Napoleonic Wars with ample b/w illustrations. DJ is price-clipped with some light shelfwear. Volume clean and prim. Very good overall. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the poet Blunden's traumatic WWI memoir. Dark Brown leatherette covers with lavish gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers and silken ribbon marker. With original illustrations by David Whitfield. Foxing to top and fore ed [more...]
With colour illustrations. Pictorial covers. Rubbing to edges, slight cracking to front joint. marking to fore-edge. Binding sound. Contents clean. Fair. [more...]
From the Kingston Library series. With colour illustrations. No date but c. 1900. Rubbing and bumping and small tears to edges. Light foxing to page edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Binding sound and contents clean. Good [more...]
Pictorial cloth covers. With b/w illustrations by D. H. Fristron. decorative end-papers. All edges gilt. Staining/toning to cover. , Rubbing to edges. Binding sound and contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Wartime edition of the Sea Cadets Corps magazine, with articles on ships, the war and other topics, with b/w images and advertisements to rear. Rubbing to edges, some toning/spotting within. Good overall. [more...]
With b/w plates and plans. Fifth edition. Previous owner's names to end-papers. Bumping and rubbing to edges, with slight fraying to tope of spine. Tanning within. Binding holding. Fair/good. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society volume featuring a selection from Thomas Cochrane's two autobiographies detailing his life in the Royal Navy (especially his experiences in the Napoleonic wars, which led to Napoleon nicknaming hims le Loup des Mers - the Sea Wolf) and th [more...]
Second edition, before publication of the first. Some rubbing, tearing and wear to edges DJ. Mild tanning within, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Neat Folio Society of the 17th century Spainish-Chilean soldier's account of his 7 month captivity with the Mapuche people. With b/w illustrations and maps to end-papers. Quarter leather. Complete with slipcase. Scratch to cover. Previous owner's sticker [more...]
Crane's affecting novel of a young soldiers experiences in the American Civil War, renowned for its "psychological portrayal of fear". Some light shelfwear, bumping to extremities and a few errant marks on spine. Slipcase is worn at extremities. Contents a [more...]
Second impression of Benson's account of stretcher-bearer Kirkpatrick's heroism during Gallipoli landings. Dust jacket has a small tear to top of spine and some marking. Foxing to fore-edge, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Half leather library binding with silk moire paper to boards. EX-Military-Library with numbers in gilt to spine. Library rules to front pastedown. Rubbing to leather. with loss to top of spine. Binding stout and contents clean. Fair/good overall. [more...]
From the pocket encyclopedia of world aircraft series. With numerous colour images and diagrams. Some very light bumping to DJ and very slight toning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very Good [more...]
