Author: Grosvenor, J and Bates, L. M., Lt-Cdr, RNVR,
Title: OPEN THE PORTS.
Description: William Kimber, London, 1956, 1st edn., 199pp, [i] blank, [viii] ads., frontis and 6pp half tone photo plates, very dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib), an account of the small branch of the Royal Navy in WW2, the 'P' Parties which, acting as human mineweepers, following up the invading forces to clear the ports of underwater mines and booby-traps inaccessible to the standard methods of sweeping, rendering inaccessible mines safe, scarce, a little rubbed at tips, slight bleaching to cloth at head of spine, edges tanned and lightly foxed, dustwrapper: chips to spine ends and extrems., loss to upper edge front and rear panels, numerous creases to upper and lower edges of front panel, heavily repaired to reverse, good in a fair dustwrapper,

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