CAMPBELL John

Queen Elizabeth Class. Warship Monograph Two. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, 1972. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and diagrams (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Warship Monographs. Monograph Two. The five battleships of this class - Queen Elizabeth, Barham, Malaya, Valiant, Warspite - were the last designed under Sir Philip Watts as Director Naval Construction. All served in the latter stages of WWI (Queen Elizabeth controversially at the Dardanelles) and with distinction (especially Warspite) throughout WWII which all save Barham, a tragic early loss, survived. Scarce, especially in this condition. Law, 0994.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 18691

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, ww1, ww2, battleships, warship types, warship classes, queen elizabeth, warspite, barham, valiant, malaya, john campbell, naval, wwii, warship, monographs

CAMPBELL Commander A[lexander] B.

Salute the Red Duster . With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Christopher Johnson,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 14 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Wide-ranging tribute to the Merchant Navy at war; includes Malta, Russia, Dunkirk, Graf Spee, Jervis Bay and many others. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.270; Law, 1264.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33145

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, merchant navy, royal navy, alexander campbell

CAMPBELL Commander A[lexander] B.

Salute the Red Duster . With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Christopher Johnson,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 14 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Wide-ranging tribute to the Merchant Navy at war; includes Malta, Russia, Dunkirk, GRAF SPEE, JERVIS BAY and many others. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION,. Enser, p.270; Law, 1264.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37698

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, merchant navy, royal navy, alexander campbell

CAMPBELL Neil

Shadow and Sun. A Nautical Memoir. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Howard Timmins, Cape Town, for Allen & Unwin,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge tender due to production fault else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed errata slip mounted at half-title. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A wonderful elegy of a long career in the last years of sail, including service aboard the square-rigger Elginshire. This is almost an early issue (possibly in a trial binding). BL gives 1947 but the author's inscription is dated October 1946.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 20329

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sail, neil campbell, neil campbell, naval, maritime, shadow, sun

CAMPERDOWN Earl of

Admiral Duncan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1898. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 2 plates in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and full-page battle-plan, some negligible spotting; original navy diced cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Neat inscription on half-title: 'Amy M. Cowper. The life of her great-grandfather from HSC 15.4.1911'. NMM II/1, 522.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 38893

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, to 1914, admiral duncan, camperdown, earl of camperdown

CARPENTER VC Captain Alfred F.B.

The Blocking of Zeebrugge. With an Introduction by Admiral Earl Beatty and Appreciations by Marshal Foch and Rear Admiral Sims. Drawings by Charles de Lacy. [Eighth Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY

Herbert Jenkins,, [c.1924]. 8vo., Eighth Impression, with frontispiece, photographs, illustrations in the text, full-page map and large folding plan on japon; green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a near fine copy. The author commanded HMS VINDICTIVE during the operation for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.404; Mulholland & Jordan C21.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 36212

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, zeebrugge, alfred carpenter, vc, victoria cross

CARR William Guy

Brass Hats and Bell-Bottomed Trousers. Unforgettable and Splendid Feats of the Harwich Patrol. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Hutchinson,, [1939]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, covers faded at edges, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.161.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37295

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, harwich patrol, harwich, north sea, william guy carr

CARR Frank G. G.

Sailing Barges. [Second Edition]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Peter Davies,, [1951]. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous photographs, illustrations and plans in the text, fore-edge lightly spotted; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at edges. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Revised and expanded version of this standard reference first published in 1931.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 34095

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sailing, barges, sailing barges, frank carr,

CARRISON Captain Daniel J.

The United States Navy. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Praeger,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With publisher's stamp on title and small press-mark on front free endpaper.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37464

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, us navy, united states navy, daniel carrison

CARY A.L.

Liners of the Ocean Highway.

Sampson Low Marston,, [1938]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes details of seventy-three ocean liners and concise histories of seven leading shipping companies. Scarce, especially in this condition.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 12028

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, liners, ocean liners, alan cary, a.l. cary, naval, maritime, liners, ocean, highway

CHAIR Admiral Sir Dudley de

The Sea is Strong. With a Preface and Epilogue by Somerset de Chair. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Harrap,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 6, and 3 facsimiles and 2 maps (one double-page) in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Even by the rip-roaring standards of the time Admiral Dudley de Chair's career was packed with incident. His autobiography begins with his service as a midshipman with the Mediterranean Fleet, his imprisonment by Arabi Pasha (during which Queen Victoria led a national outcry), his uneasy relationship with Churchill and his final command of the renowned Tenth Cruiser Squadron in WWI.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 47857

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, royal navy, tenth cruiser squadron, german blockade, de chair, admirals

CHALMERS W.S.

The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty. Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates and 12 diagrams (6 of Jutland) in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, back a little dulled else a very good, clean copy. Good copy of the standard life. Albion, p.275; NMM II/1, 279.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 3139

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, royal navy, battlecruisers, beatty, jutland, dogger bank, admirals, biography, letters, w.s. chalmers, naval, wwi, life, letters, david, earl, beatty

CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S.

The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty. Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates and 12 diagrams (6 of Jutland) in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; navy cloth, upper board clocked in gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.275; NMM II/1, 279.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46240

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, ww1, wwi, great war, beatty, jutland, jellicoe, battlecruisers, w.s. chalmers

CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S.

Max Horton and Western Approaches. A Biography of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, and maps in the text; blue gilt, gilt device on upper board, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by C.E. Turner. The greater part concerns Horton's career in WWII; as C-in-C Western Approaches he was ultimately responsible for decisive victory in the Atlantic. An important and readable account. The first edition is increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.266; Law, 0199; NMM II/1 685.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46081

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, battle of the atlantic, western approaches, max horton, w.s. chalmers

CHAPMAN Paul

Submarine Torbay. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hale,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the most eminent members of the famous T-class, TORBAY operated out of Alexandria as part of First Submarine Flotilla and continued a distinguished career throughout WWII. Includes coverage of the later Miers controversy.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46063

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, submarines, t-class, torbay, first submarine flotilla, alexandria, paul chapman, charles cook