ANSEL [Admiral] Walter

Hitler and the Middle Sea. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Duke University Press, Durham NC,, 1972. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, and maps and plans in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in white and black, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Ansel makes extensive use of German primary sources to describe German naval operations in the Med to the end of 1941. The capture of Crete (Operation MERCURY) is examined in detail. Enser, p.53; Law 0304.

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Book number: 39982

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Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, wwii, mediterranean, kreigsmarine, crete, operation mercury, walter ansel

APPS Michael

The Four Ark Royals. With a Foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Fell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Kimber,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Law 0954.

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Book number: 36086

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, aircraft carriers, ark royal, michael apps

ARBUCKLE Lt. Graeme

Customs and Traditions of the Canadian Navy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Nimbus, [Halifax NS],, [1984]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37645

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, rcn, royal canadian navy, canadian navy, graeme arbuckle

ARMSTRONG Warren

Battle of the Oceans. [The Merchant Navy at War 1939-1943. Foreword by Admiral Sir Sydney R. Fremantle.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPYIN DUSTWRAPPER

Jarrolds,, [1943]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded at extremities else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at extremities and with loss at head and tail of backstrip. THE UK EDITION IS VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.270; Law 1257.

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Book number: 37232

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, merchant navy, convoys, atlantic, warren armstrong, sydney fremantle, admiral fremantle

ASHDOWN Paddy

A Brilliant Little Operation. The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of WWII. [Maps by Harriet McDougall.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Aurum,, [2012]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the well-known but ill-fated raid on German merchant shipping in Bordeaux. Includes much original content unavailable when Lucas Phillips compiled the first account in 1956.

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Book number: 48023

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal marines, cockleshell heroes, frankton, operation frankton, bordeaux, ashdown, paddy ashdown

ASPINALL-OGLANDER Cecil

Roger Keyes. Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hogarth Press,, 1951. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top (moderately faded as usual), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 30477

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, roger keyes, admiral keyes, lord keyes, zeebrugge, dover patrol, cecil aspinall-oglander

ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DES MUSEES DE LA MARINE

La Belle Poule. Fregate de 1er Rang de 60 Bouches a Feu 1834. Monographie Comprenant. 1. Notice historique et descriptive. 3 Plans a l'echelle de 1/100e. 4 Phototypes BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Association des Amis des Musees de la Marine, Paris,, [1953]. 8 items in one portfolio, roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, monograph wire-stitched as issued, 3 large folding plans and 4 large photographic plates, the whole housed in illustrated card portfolio, backstrip mildly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 40110

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, la belle poule, ship models, ship modelling, monographs

ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DES MUSEES DE LA MARINE

La Flore dite Americaine. Fregate de 28 Canons (Fin dur XVIII Siecle). Monographie Comprenant. 1. Notice historique et descriptive. 3 Plans a l'echelle de 1/75e. 4 Phototypes BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Association des Amis des Musees de la Marine, Paris,, [1954]. 8 items in one portfolio, roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, monograph wire-stitched as issued, 3 large folding plans in red and black and 4 large photographic plates, the whole housed in illustrated card portfolio, backstrip mildly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 40108

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Keywords: naval, la flore, frigates, ship models, ship modelling, monographs

ATKINS Jeremy

A Hundred Years of Sailing at Oxford University. The Centenary History of the Oxford University Boat Club 1884-1984 NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed],, 1984. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 32569

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sailing, yachting, cruising, oxford, oxford university, oxford university boat club

AVISO GRILLE

Photographic print of Aviso Grille [Hitler's naval yacht]. SIGNED BY KARL DONITZ

n.d.. Monochrome photographic print measuring 6.5 x 4.5 inches (approx. 17 x 12 cms), a near fine copy. SIGNED BY KARL DONITZ IN BLUE PEN IN BLANK MARGIN. The print shows the vessel from the starboard quarter with one boat outboard on davits, one fender deployed and wearing the Kreigsmarine Empire ensign. Karl Donitz (1891-1980) was a leading Nazi and foremost admiral of the Nazi Kreigsmarine. During WWII he masterminded the U-Boat campaign against allied shipping; in 1945 he was nominated by Hitler as his successor. After Nuremburg he spent ten years in prison before retiring quietly near Hamburg until his death from natural causes in 1980. The Aviso Grille (1935-1951) was built as a state yacht for use by Hitler and other leading Nazi figures; should the Nazi invasion of England have succeeded, Grille was intended to convey Hitler and his entourage to London. Requisitioned by the British in 1945, she passed through a succession of private hands until finally being sold for scrap in 1951.

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Book number: 44485

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Keywords: naval, ww2, ww11, third reich, donitz, karl donitz, admiral donitz, aviso grille, hitler

BACON Admiral Sir Reginald

The Dover Patrol 1915-1917. REMARKABLY BRIGHT SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Hutchinson,, [1919]. 2 vols., 8vo., with 2 portrait frontispieces, titles in red and black, 78 plates, 16 illustrations and plans in the text and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, endpapers and edges lightly browned; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, clean copy. The standard history of the legendary naval force, charged with safeguarding the Channel throughout WWI. Written by the commander who led it during most of the critical period of the war, but who was superseded for political reasons before the great operations he had planned (the mine-barrage and the attack on Zeebrugge) could come to fruition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Taffrail ' The Endless Story', pp. 241 et seq. Enser, p.109

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Book number: 23065

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BAGNASCO Ermino

The Littorio Class. Italy's Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948. Drawings by Roberto Maggi, Maurizio Brescia and Angelo Brioschi. [First English Edition. Translated from the Second Italian Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Seaforth, [Barnsley,, 2011]. Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 4 large folding plates (2 in colour) very numerous monochrome photograph in the text and photographic endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Surprisingly, the first detailed account in English of this well-known class, comprising Vittorio Veneto, Littorio and Roma.

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Book number: 31267

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, WWII, italy, italian navy, regia marina, vittorio veneto, littorio, roma

BAILEY Thomas A.

Hitler vs. Roosevelt. The Undeclared Naval War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Free Press, New York NY,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.158.

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Book number: 37607

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, hitler, roosevelt, war at sea

BAKER Richard

The Terror of Tobermory. An Informal Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson. With a Foreword by Earl Mountbatten of Burma. [Second Impression.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. WITH SMALL STEPHENSON ARCHIVE.

W H Allen,, 1972. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates, and endpaper maps on blue stock; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON DEDICATION with newspaper obituary mounted on title verso. SOLD WITH A SMALL ARCHIVE OF STEPHENSON MEMORABILIA, INCLUDING 3 A.L.s, ASSOCIATED LETTERS AND COPY-LETTERS, Report & Accounts of the London Flotilla for 1972, Obituary number of the London Flotilla Bulletin (No. 2 July 1972) with cover photograph and extended obituary, and Order of Service of Thanksgiving at St. Martin-in-the-Fields 22 June 1972. Published a month after the first edition. Fascinating account and character sketch of the man who did more than any other to train the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic. Well-known BBC presenter and journalist Richard Baker, like many thousands of others, trained at Tobermory on Mull for the longest-running and hardest-fought campaign of WWII. A RARE AND RELEVANT ARCHIVAL COPY RELATING DIRECTLY TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INSPIRATIONAL COMMANDERS OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC.

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Book number: 38905

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BALLANTYNE Iain

HMS Rodney. Warships of the Royal Navy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2008]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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