,

Map of PORTSMOUTH & HAVANT, 1810 to present day in the Past & Present Series,.

Cassini Publishing Ltd., Southampton, 2006 Concertina style folded map on sheet 38" x 24", Scale 1:50,000, incorporating four maps of Portsmouth and Havant, Ordnance Survey Old Series 1810, OS Revised New Series 1895, OS Popular Edition 1919 and OS Present day mapping data (2006), including Denmead, Emsworth, Hayling Island, Rowlands Castle, Thorney Island and Waterlooville, fine,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44990

Catalogue: Maps

Keywords: historical map 1810 1895 1919 portsmouth havant denmead emsworth hayling island rowlands castle thorney waterlooville

,

Map of CANTERBURY & EAST KENT, 1920-1921 - Popular Edition HIstorical Map.

Cassini Publishing Ltd., Southampton, 2007 Concertina style folded map on sheet 38" x 24", front cover image Cliftonville, Scale 1:50,000, Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One-Inch map enlarged and re-projected to match the area of Ordnance Survey Landranger 179, Broadstairs, Dover, Folkestone, Herne Bay, Margate, Ramsgate and Whitstable, fine,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44991

Catalogue: Maps

Keywords: historical map 1920 1921 canterbury east kent broadstairs dover folkestone herne bay margate ramsgate whitstable

,

Map of PLYMOUTH & LAUNCESTON, 1919 - Popular Edition HIstorical Map.

Cassini Publishing Ltd., Southampton, 2007 Concertina style folded map on sheet 38" x 24", front cover image The Tamar at Calstock, Scale 1:50,000, Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One-Inch map enlarged and re-projected to match the area of Ordnance Survey Landranger 201, Liskeard, Looe, Lydford, Saltash, Tavistock and Torpoint, fine,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44992

Catalogue: Maps

Keywords: historical map 1919 plymouth launceston liskeard looe lydford saltash tavistock torpoint

,

Map of NORTH EAST NORFOLK - 1921-1922 - Popular Edition Historical Map 133.

Cassini Publishing Ltd., Southampton, 2007 Concertina style folded map on sheet 38" x 24", front cover image Irstead Church, Scale 1:50,000, Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One-Inch map enlarged and re-projected to match the area of Ordnance Survey Landranger 133, including Aylsham, Cromer, Holt, North Walsham, Norwich and Sheringham, publisher's price label lower wrapper, fine,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44993

Catalogue: Maps

Keywords: historical map 1921 1922 north east norfolk aylsham cromer holt walsham norwich sheringham

[Ritchie, Capt. Lewis, RN (Bartimeus)],

THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET - Greece to Tripoli.

HMSO, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback original, 95pp, many half tone photos, drawings and maps, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7" approx., the Admiralty account of naval operations in the Eastern Mediterranean from April 1941 to January 1943, starting where the publication 'East of Malta, West of Suez' finished, it covers the aid to and then evacuation and withdrawal from both Greece and Crete with severe losses, the continuing support to Malta, attacks on Rommels supply lines and supplying the 8th Army during their advance from El Alamein to Tripoli, ills include HMS Ajax, Barham, Formidable, Warspite, Manchester, Kingston, Kimberley, Naiad, Cleopatra, Argus, Welshman, Cairo, very slight rubbing at spine, very good plus,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 45445

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy mediterranean campaign hmso malta greece crete tripoli north africa alamein tobruk rommel ajax barham formidable warspite manchester kingston kimberley naiad cleopatra argus welshman cairo

[Hunt, B. P. W. Stather, D.D.],

PAKEFIELD - THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE.

priavtely published, Pakefield, 1938, 5th edn., paperback, 64pp plus half tone photo pictorial frontis and 13pp half tone photo ills., line drawings and ads. in text, sewn binding, card photo pictorial wrappers with yapp edges, an earlier edition of what was developed into the 7th edn. 'Flinten History', a history of Pakefield and its church, with somewhat less text but including some of the photo illustrations omitted from the paperback edition of the later 7th edition, white wrappers a little grubby, very good,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 45300

Catalogue: Topography and Local History - NE Suffolk and SE Norfolk

Keywords: topography britain england east anglia suffolk pakefield

,

RANKS AND MEDAL RIBBONS OF THE FIGHTING SERVICES.

Daily Mirror, London, ND (circa 1940), paperback, 31pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, stapled lettered paper wrappers, a handbook of the rank markings and decorations and medals worn by members of the armed forces of Great Britain, with details of equivalent ranks, naval trade badges, army staff patches, army and raf nco badges, decorations and campaign medals, women's service ranks, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., wrappers lightly creased and soiled, slight rusting to staples, good,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 42581

Catalogue: WW2 - General

Keywords: war ww2 navy army raf medal ribbons ranks

,

ROBIN HOOD - Classics Illustrated #7.

Strato, Oadby, Leicester, ND, paperback, 48pp, coloured ills. throughou (unattributed)t, stapled coloured pictorial paper wrappers, magazine comic strip format about 10 x 7 inches, in the Classics Illustrated series, No. 7 (HRN 126), text in English, printed in Republic of Ireland, cover price 1/3, lightly rubbed at tips with tiny nick at tail of spine, faint creasing to wrappers, pages tanned, very good,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 42171

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile classics illustrated robin hood comic strip

[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44661

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight

[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, rubbed at extrems., wrappers creased, edges tanned, good,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44662

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight

[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., printed by Whitefriars Press, London and Tonbridge, stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, a little rubbed at extrems., light diagonal crease lower wrapper, faint creasing to bcnrs. edges tanned, good plus

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44795

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight

[Cotterell, Anthony],

ROOF OVER BRITAIN : The Official Story of Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942.

HMSO, London, 1943, 1st edn., paperback original, 88pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., stapled pictorial wrappers by A. Games, about 8 x 5 inches, the official story of Britain's anti-aircraft defences 1939-1942, covers the aspects of air defence other than the fighter squadrons, ie. the Royal Observer Corps, balloons, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns and the ancilliary skills of range and direction finding (and the men and women that carried them out), that created a 'roof' over Britain, ills. include 3.7 gun and detachment, 4.5 battery, rangefinder on heavy gun site, sound locator, ROC post, balloons on land and sea, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 45430

Catalogue: WW2 - Home Front

Keywords: war ww2 army hmso raf anti-aircraft battery guns 3.7 4.5 sound locator range finder balloon defence searchlight home front

,

TARGET : GERMANY.

HMSO, London, 1944, paperback, viii, 120pp, numerous half tone ills., maps and diagrams in text, half tone pictorial endpapers, stapled pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7" approx., the US Army Air Force's official account of the VIII Bomber Command's first year over Europe, an account of the daylight bombing by B-17 Fortresses and B-24 Liberators, nissen huts and coke stoves, living in the mud and rain, account of a specific mission to the Ruhr and Belgium, details of many other missions with numerous quotes of experiences, diagrams of a 'combat box', many ills. of personnel, aircraft, aerial photos of targets, etc., wraoppers detached, well rubbed, soiled and with nick to fore-edge lower wrapper, cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, fair,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 44667

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf

,

TEE EMM Vol. 3 No. 9.

Air Ministry, London, December 1943, paperback original, p.201 to p.220, half tone ills. in text, stapled decorated paper wrappers, the RAF's 'Training Memorandum' which contains life-saving service tips in a humourous way often illustrated by Pilot Officer Prune doing it the wrong way, marked 'for official use only', lightly rubbed at tips, nibble to upper edge front wrapper, vertical crease, pencil name on cover and ink reference upper margin first page, light marks in text, good plus,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 41547

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf humour

[H. E. Bates],

THERE'S FREEDOM IN THE AIR.

HMSO, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback original, 36pp, numerous half tone photo ills. and map in text, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7 inches, the official story of the Allied Air Forces from the occupied countries of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Greece and Yugoslavia fighting alongside the Royal Air Force against Germany and the XAxis powerss in Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands, a little rubbed at extrems., slight surface flaking at spine, very good,

A Book for all ReasonsProfessional seller

Book number: 45450

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

Keywords: war ww2 raf poles czechoslovaks dutch norwegian belgians frence greeks yugoslavs