GALANTIN Admiral I.J.

Take her Deep!. A Submarine [USS Halibut] against Japan in World War II. With an Introduction by Edward L. Beach. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Unwin Hyman,, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.

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Book number: 37208

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, us navy, uss halibut, submarines, pacific, galantin

GALLAGHER Thomas

Against All Odds. Midget Submarines aginst the TIRPITZ. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Macdonald,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Described Operation SOURCE, the X-craft raid against the TIRPITZ in Kaagjord in 1943. Enser, p.417; Law 0924

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Book number: 37244

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, submarines, midget submarines, x-craft, tirpitz, kaafjord, operation source, thomas gallagher

GALLERY Rear-Admiral Daniel V.

We Captured a U-Boat. Introduction by Commander Edward Young. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Sidgwick & Jackson,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 9 plates on 8 and full-page map in the text, some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; library cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the US in the previous year with the title 'Twenty Million Tons under the Sea'. The author was head of the US task force that captured U-505 off the coast of Africa, the only U-boat to be boarded and captured at sea. U-505 is now housed at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The UK edition is elusive in anything like this condition. Enser, p. 429; Law 1602

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Book number: 13256

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii. usn, us navy, submarines, u-boat, u-boats, u-505, daniel v. gallery, atlantic, battle of the atlantic

GANNON Michael

Black May. The Story of the Allies' defeat of the German U-boats in May 1943. [First UK Edition] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Aurum,, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.

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Book number: 36088

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, u-boats, convoys, atlantic, battle of the atlantic, michael gannon

GARDNER Commander James Anthony

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, Commander RN (1775-1814). Edited by Admiral Sir R. Vesey Hamilton and John Knox Laughton. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Navy Records Society,, 1906. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original series binding of white buckram, upper board ruled and blocked in gilt, navy buckram back gilt, a near fine copy. Navy Records Society, vol. XXXI.

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Book number: 50102

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GARRETT K.S.

Thomas Watson (Shipping) Limited.

World Ship Society, [Gravesend,, 2002]. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 4 coloured plates and numerous photographs in monochrome throughout: original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.

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Book number: 12269

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, merchant navy, shipping lines, line histories, thomas watson, k.s. garrett, naval, shipping line histories, thomas, watson, (shipping), limited

GARTSIDE V.O.B.

Nile Additional. An Account of a few very ordinary adventures of a very ordinary 'Temporary Surgeon Lieut.' in the RNVR and being factual rather than imaginative. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

[Privately Printed],, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, endpapers lightly browned; marbled boards ruled and lettered in blue, green cloth back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author served on RHN ADRIAS in the South Atlantic and Mediteranean, then SCARAB for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. From 1943-44 he was based at NILE (Alexandria) and finally Piraeus during the liberation and civil war. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 30577

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, atlantic, mediterranean, sicily, italy, greece

GAVIN Paymaster Commander C.M.

Royal Yachts. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Rich & Cowan,, 1932. Folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 15 fine mounted coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; blue pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked with Royal Standard and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 459). Published by gracious permission of His Majesty the King.

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Book number: 30979

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Keywords: naval, maritime, royal yachts, gavin

GAY Franco

Anatomy of the Ship. The Cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1987]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications

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Book number: 15245

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Keywords: naval, aots, anatomy of the ship, ww2, wwii, italian navy, cruisers, bartolomeo colleoni, ship construction, franco gay, valerio gay

GELDER George

116 Infantry Brigade Royal Marines, North West Europe 1945. NEAR FINE COPY

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Portsmouth],, 2020. 8vo., printed wrappers, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication SP 50.

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Book number: 50616

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GERMAN Commander Tony

The Sea is at our Gates. The History of the Canadian Navy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto ON,, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrated endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37642

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Keywords: naval, rcn, royal canadian navy, canadian navy, tony german

GIBBS Commander C.R.Vernon

British Passenger Liners of the Five Oceans. A Record of the British Passenger Lines and their Liners from 1838 to the Present Day. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Putnam,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, faint tape marks on free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Gilbert of Southampton on front paste-down.

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Book number: 36096

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Keywords: naval, maritime, liners, passenger liners, passenger lines, shipping lines, shipping line histories, vernon gibbs

GIBBS Martin

Wartime Convoy to America. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Privately Printed],, [2003]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 36103

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GIBBS Commander C.R.Vernon

The Western Ocean Passenger Lines and Liners 1934-1969. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow,, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36101

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Keywords: naval, maritime, liners, passenger liners, passenger lines, shipping lines, shipping line histories, vernon gibbs

GLENTON Bill

Mutiny in Force X. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1986]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of a hastily assembled force sent to the SW Pacific in 1944. The descent into anarchy of the LSI(H) LOTHIAN is described by one of the mutineers. Enser, pp. 197, 243; Law 0605.

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Book number: 49164

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