HADLEY Dunstan

Barracuda Pilot. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 40533

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, fleet air arm, barracuda, naval aviation, dunstan hadley

HAGGER Percy

HMS Bedouin and The Long March Home. FINE COPY

Navigator Books, [Ringwood],, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and several photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The first half deals with Bedouin's service in Norway (Narvik) and the Mediterranean until her sinking off Pantellaria in June 1942. The second half relates the author's experiences as a POW and eventual repatriation. Extremely scarce.

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Book number: 18100

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, destroyers, tribal class, bedouin, percy hagger

HAGUE Arnold

Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945. A History of the Rescue Service, its Ships and their Crews. NEAR FINE COPY

World Ship Society, [Gravesend,, 1998]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The first dedicated study, providing full details of British convoy rescue vessels with a voyage-by-voyage account of their wartime service. Includes H&A and Orders to Masters. SCARCE.

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Book number: 38907

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, merchant navy, convoys, rescue ships, u-boats, atlantic, mediterranean, hague, arnold hague

HAGUE Arnold

Destroyers for Great Britain. A History of 50 Town Class Ships transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940. SECOND AND BEST EDITION

Greenhill,, [1990]. 8vo., Second and Best Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and endpapers plans; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised and expanded reissue of the original edition of 1988. The first dedicated study of this class, the acquisition of which proved an invaluable boost to a hard-pressed Admiralty at a crucial period. Good selection of photographs of virtually every vessel balances the enormous publicity accrued elsewhere by HMS Campbeltown following the St. Nazaire raid. Scarce.

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Book number: 14183

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, destroyers, warship classes, atlantic, escorts, arnold hague, naval, wwii, destroyers, great, britain

HAGUE Arnold

Sloops 1926-1946. A History of the 71 Sloops built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies.

[World Ship Society, Kendal,, 1993]. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous fine photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly faded else a near fine copy. Unusually well illustrated account of a much neglected class.

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Book number: 10296

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, warship classes, escorts, sloops, black swan, arnold hague, naval, wwii, sloops, 1926-1946

HAGUE Arnold

The Towns . A History of the Fifty Destroyers transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[World Ship Society, Kendal,, 1988]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan at end; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The first dedicated study of this class, the acquisition of which proved an invaluable boost to a hard-pressed Admiralty at a crucial period. Good selection of photographs of virtually every vessel balances the enormous publicity accrued elsewhere by HMS CAMPBLETOWN following the St. Nazaire raid.

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Book number: 14215

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, destroyers, town class destroyers, warship classes, atlantic, escorts, hague, arnold hague

HAGUE Arnold

The Towns . A History of the Fifty Destroyers transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

[World Ship Society, Kendal,, 1988]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan at end; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The first dedicated study of this class, the acquisition of which proved an invaluable boost to a hard-pressed Admiralty at a crucial period. Good selection of photographs of virtually every vessel balances the enormous publicity accrued elsewhere by HMS CAMPBLETOWN following the St. Nazaire raid.

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Book number: 39236

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, destroyers, town class destroyers, warship classes, atlantic, escorts, hague, arnold hague

HAINES Gregory

Destroyers at War.

Ian Allan, [Shepperton,, 1982]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-illustrated account of selected engagements in which destroyers played prominent roles. Striking wrapper artwork by Robert Taylor depicting HMS Kelly.Law 1053.

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Book number: 7968

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, destroyers, warship classes, gregory haines, naval, wwii, destroyers, war

HALPERN, ed. Paul

The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1929. NEAR FINE COPY

Ashgate [Farnham] for Navy Records Society,, 2011. 8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and maps in the text; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 158.

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Book number: 45693

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, navy records society, royal navy, ww2, wwii, mediterranean, mediteranean fleet, nrs, paul halpern

HANSEN Clas Broder

Passenger Liners from Germany 1816-1990. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Schiffer, West Chester PA,, [1991]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37651

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, liners, ocean liners, passenger liners, hansen, clas broder hansen

HANSER Richard

Victory at Sea. Captions by Henry Salomon with Richard Hanser. Text by Richard Hanser. Photographs selected by Charles Osborn. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Doubleday, New York NY,, [1959]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and red, a good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 34646

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, war at sea, us navy, richard hanser, henry salomon

HANSON H.J.

Ianthe Cruises. Ushant - Gironde. [French West Coast]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

McGibbon & Kee,, 1950. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, plans and charts in the text; small neat signature on front free endpaper, green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip and with minor loss at upper edge of rear panel. Ianthe is a 7-ton gaff cutter. Includes full sailing directions. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 22895

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sailing, cruising, hanson, ianthe, h.j. hanson, naval, maritime, ianthe, cruises

HARA Captain Tameichi

Japanese Destroyer Captain. Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - the Great Naval Battles as seen through Japanese Eyes. With Fred Saito and Roger Pineau. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD,, [2007]. 8vo., with plates; black cloth boards, orange cloth back lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hara's classic account was first published in the USA in 1961, and in Japan in 1967. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.235.

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Book number: 50212

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, japanese navy, hara, tameichi hara, pacific war, pearl harbor, guadalcanal, midway

HARDY A. C.

The Book of the Ship. An exhaustive pictorial and factual Survey of World Ships, Shipping and Shipbuilding. NEAR FINE COPY

Sampson Low Marston & Co.,, [1948]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs, diagrams and advertisements throughout, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, blue top, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 40107

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, ships, shipping, shipbuilding, hardy

HARMON J. Scott

USS Cassin Young (DD-793). A Fletcher Class Destroyer. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

Pictorial Histories, Missoula MT,, [1990]. Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 37598

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, us navy, cassin young, destroyers, fletcher class destroyers, scott harmon