EDWARDS Bernard

The Cruel Sea Retold. The Truth behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HG73 VETERAN

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition; with 17 plates on 8; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. THE RECIPIENT IS BELIVED TO BE GEORGE MONK, RADIO OFFICER ABOARD THE DANISH VESSEL EBRO IN CONVOY HG73. An established naval historian retells the stories of three convoys - OG71, HG73 and HG76 - on which Monsarrat drew for his splendid novel. SCARCE.

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Book number: 44078

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, battle of the atlantic, atlantic, gibraltar, convoys, monsarrat, cruel sea, bernard edwards

EDWARDS B.

Marines from the Medway. The Story behind their Memorials in the Medway Towns.

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Southsea,, 1998]. Sm. 4to., with photographs and maps in the text; printed wrappers, comb-bound as issued, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications 20.

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Book number: 26325

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, royal marines, kent, medway, chatham, unit histories, unit history, b. edwards, naval, royal marines, marines, from, medway

EDWARDS Kenneth

The Navy of To-Day. Revised by B. Webster Smith. [Revised Edition. With a Foreword by Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt.] IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Blackie,, [1942]. 8vo., Revised Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, wanting front free endpaper; navy cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Updated version of the original edition of 1939. Useful for understanding how the RN was presented to the British public during WWII. Law 0633.

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Book number: 29702

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, kenneth edwards

EDWARDS Kenneth

Operation Neptune. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, with several plates and endpaper maps; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, covers slightly age-marked at edges else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-sloiled and frayed at edges. A standard secondary source. Covers the naval component of OVERLORD, the clearing of the Channel ports and Walcheren. Enser, p.290; Law, 0589

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Book number: 31007

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, wwii, operation naptune, overlord, d-day, normandy, kenneth edwards

EDWARDS Bernard

They Sank the Red Dragon. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

GPC, Cardiff,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 45739

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, merchant navy, welsh ships, welsh merchant ships, u-boats, convoys, atlantic, bernard edwards

ELLIOTT Peter

The Cross and the Ensign. A Naval History of Malta 1798-1979. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial front and rear endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 8673

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, malta, valletta, dockyards, peter elliott

ELLIS Don

Medway Yacht Club. The First Hundred Years 1880-1980 NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

South Eastern Magazines, Maidstone,, 1979. Sm. Folio, First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper charts; grey cloth, upper board blocked with burgee in red, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 32566

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sailing, yachting, cruising, medway, medway yacht club

EMMERSON George S

John Scott Russell. A Great Victorian Engineer and Naval Architect. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

John Murray,, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 39550

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, naval architecture, john scott russell, shipbuilding, george emmerson

ENGLISH John

Afridi to Nizam. British Fleet Destroyers 1937-43. FINE COPY

World Ship Society, Gravesend,, 2001. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Detailed biographies of the 'Tribals' and 'J' to 'N' classes. SCARCE.

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Book number: 46446

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, destroyers, warship classes, john english

ENGLISH John

Grand Fleet Destroyers. Part 1: Flotilla Leaders and 'V/W' Class Destroyers. FINE COPY

World Ship Society, Windsor,, 2019. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Detailed biographies of flotilla leaders and the indomitable 'V' and 'W' classes. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 49602

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, royal navy, grand fleet, destroyers, warship classes, john english

ENGLISH John

The Hunts. A History of the Design, Development and Careers of the 86 Destroyers of this Class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. FINE COPY

[World Ship Society, Cumbria],, [1987]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The most detailed monograph on this famous class, with individual histories of every vessel. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 50083

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, destroyers, hunt class, escorts, warship design, warship types, john english

ENGLISH John

Obdurate to Daring. British Fleet Destroyers 1941-1945. FINE COPY

World Ship Society, Windsor,, 2008. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. Second of the author's detailed accounts of British WWII destroyer classes and development, and a fitting sequel to 'Afridi to Nizam' . Includes service histories of 113 destroyers, with full vessel index and seven appendices detailing building dates and post-war conversions completed or proposed. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 29782

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, destroyers, warship classes, warship design, john english, naval, wwii, obdurate, daring

ENRIGHT Joseph F.

Shinano! The Sinking of Japan's Secret Supership. [First UK Edition] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bodley Head,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and plans (one-double-page), small mark on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published by St. Martin's Press NY earlier the same year.

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Book number: 42107

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, ijn, japanese navy, aircraft carriers, shinano,

ESQUEMELING John

The Buccaneers of America. A True Account of the most remarkable Assaults committed of late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga. Translation of 1684-5 revised by William Swan Stallybrass. With Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang. THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY EDITION IN IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Routledge,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 7 plates and 2 full-page maps; brown boards, white cloth back with leather label framed and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Modern reissue of the second 1684 edition (which includes two additional chapters), together with Basil Ringrose's fourth part (1685). Written originally in Dutch, translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-Maison and now faithfully rendered into English. THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. NMM IV, 193.

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Book number: 36268

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, piracy, pirates, privateering, esquemeling, john esquemeling, basil ringrose, william stallybrass, andrew lang, broadway translations

ESQUEMELING John

The Buccaneers of America. A True Account of the most remarkable Assaults committed of late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Allen & Unwin,, [1951]. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece, 6 plates and folding map; beige cloth, backstrip lettered in red, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Modern reissue of the 1684 edition. An elegant copy.

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Book number: 37299

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, piracy, pirates, privateering, esquemeling, john esquemeling,