HECKSTALL-SMITH B.

The Complete Yachtsman [Seventh Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Methuen,, [1935]. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous plates, diagrams in the text and a folding plan, wanting front free endpaper; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter frayed and worn at edges. This classic compendium in the old Dixon Kemp tradition was first published in 1912. Extremely scarce in the dustwrapper

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Book number: 20699

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, yachting, sailing, heckstall-smith, b. heckstall-smith, e. du boulay, naval, maritime, complete, yachtsman, seventh, edition

HENDY John F.

Ferries round Britain. NEAR FINE COPY

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 34599

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, ferries, john hendy

HENSHAW John

Town Class Destroyers. A Critical Assessment. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Crowood Press, [Marlborough],, [2018]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 fine coloured plates and 16 tinted illustrations in the text; original patterned boards, a near fine copy. Detailed account of the fifty [already obsolete] destroyers supplied to the Royal Navy in exchange for overseas base leases. Collected from three distinct US classes, the refitted RN versions were known collectively as the 'Town'-class. Arguably the most famous was CAMPBELTOWN, expended during CHARIOT, the raid on St. Nazaire.

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Book number: 50464

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, warship monographs, ww2, wwii, royal navy, town class destroyers, john henshaw

HERLIN Hans

The Survivor. The True Story of the Sinking of the Doggerbank. Translated by John Brownjohn. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Leo Cooper, [Barnsley],, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36373

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, doggerbank, u-boats, hans-joachim schwantke, hans herlin

HERZOG Bodo

U-Boats in Action 1939-1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Podzun, [Dorheim],, [1970]. 4to., First Edition, text and captions in German and English, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped duswrapper. Possibly the most comprehensive published photographic record of the U-boat arm. Many of the excellent photographs and not easily available elsewhere. Poor English translation. Law 1717.

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Book number: 40026

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, atlantic, u-boats, convoys, herzog, bodo herzog

HESSLER, [Gunter

The U-Boat War in the Atlantic 1939-1945. Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Lt. Cdr. A.J. Withers. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

HMSO for MOD (Navy),, [1992]. 3 vols. in 1, sm. folio, Second Impression thus, with full-page coloured map and other maps in the text; black cloth [together with] separate card folder containing 5 very large folding maps and diagrams, both volumes housed in publisher's pictorial board slip-case, a near fine copy. Much-needed facsimile of a classified document providing a cogent analysis of the U-boat offensive in the Atlantic during WWII. It was written by Hessler (son-in-law to Donitz and wartime commander of U.107) who was given free access to the war diaries and primary sources of the German navy. A standard reference, first published in 1989.

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Book number: 24288

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, german navy, kriegsmarine, atlantic, battle of the atlantic, u-boats, convoys, hessler

HEWISON W.S.

Scapa Flow in War and Peace. FINE COPY

Bellavista, [Kirkwall,, 1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, plates, illustrations in the text and a folding map; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.

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Book number: 22122

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, great war, royal navy, scapa flow, orkneys, orkney islands, stromness, w.s. hewison, naval, wwi, scapa, flow, war, peace

HEWISON W.S.

This Great Harbour Scapa Flow. Aspects of Orkney 3. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Orkney Press, [Kirkwall],, [1990]. 8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1985.

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Book number: 37152

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, orkney, scapa flow, harbours, home fleet, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, wwii,

HIBBERT Christopher

Nelson. A Personal History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Viking,, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and double-page pedigree in the text; black, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 47470

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, nelson, lord nelson, horatio nelson, admial nelson, hibbert, christopher hibbert

HICHENS Antony

Gunboat Command. The Life of 'Hitch', Lieutenant-Commander Robert Hichens, 1909-1943. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; 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.

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Book number: 33638

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, robert hichens, gunboats, coastal forces, narrow seas

HIGGINSON Rear-Admiral Francis J.

Naval Battles in the Century. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Chambers, Edinburgh,, 1906. 8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front paste-down. Published in The Nineteenth Century series.

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Book number: 37305

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, to 1914, francis higginson

HILL] [John C.G.

Shipshape and Bristol Fashion. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph, Liverpool,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and white, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled and worn dustwrapper. Includes lists of vessels build by the various yards.

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Book number: 37246

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, shipbuilding, shipbuilders, bristol

HIRSCHFELD Wolfgang

Hirschfeld. The Story of a U-boat NCO 1940-1946. As told to Geoffrey Brooks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Leo Cooper, [Barnsley],, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37153

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, kriegsmarine, u-boats, atlantic, convoys, hirschfeld, wolfgang hirschfeld

HIRSCHMANN Werner

Another Place, Another Time. A U-Boat Officer's Wartime Album with Donald E. Graves. Foreword by Timothy P. Mulligan. Maps by Christopher Johnson. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Chattam,, 2004. Small 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout; yellow cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Outstanding collection of personal photographs from an engineer officer aboard U-190. Scarce.

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Book number: 11891

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, german navy, kreigsmarine, u-boats, submarines, convoys, werner hirschmann, werner hirschmann, donald e. graves, naval, wwii, another, place, another, time

HISCOCK Eric C.

Let's Go Cruising. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Robert Ross & Co.,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 45956

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sail, sailing, cruising, eric hiscock