GRENFELL Captain Russell

The Bismarck Episode. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Faber,, [1950]. 8vo., Third Impression, with plates and charts, light tape-marks on fold-ins and free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'One of the earliest, but still one of the best accounts of the events which surrounded the BISMARCK'S final sortie' (Law). Published two years after the first edition. Enser, p.58; Law 0250 (both recording the first edition).

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Book number: 49353

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, bismarck, bismarck chase, grenfell, russell grenfell

'GRIFF', pseud.

Surrendered. Some Naval War Secrets. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

[Privately Printed], Twickenham, [1925]. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, some light age-spotting; original navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt with German war ensign blocked in colours; gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The author served on HMS ALSATIAN, flagship of 10th Cruiser Squadron, formed under de Chair as the Northern Patrol of the Grand Fleet and operating from Scapa Flow. Enser, p.229.

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Book number: 36285

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, 10th cruiser squadron, scapa flow, grand fleet, hms alsatian, griff

GRIFFITHS Denis

Steam at Sea. Two Centuries of Steam-Powered Ships FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, 1997. 4to., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36107

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, steam, steam at sea, steamships, denis griffiths

GROVE Eric

Fleet to Fleet Encounters. Tsushima. Jutland. Philippine Sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Arms & Armour,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37225

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, wwii, tsushima, jutland, philippine sea, eric grove

GUILLIATT Richard

The Wolf. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bantam Press,, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page plan and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The little-known story of the German surface raider WOLF in WWI.

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Book number: 42269

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Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, german navy, surface raiders, wolf, wolfchen,karl nerger, richard guilliatt, peter hohnen

'GUNS, Q.F.C.'

Middle Watch Musings. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION

Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent,, [c.1912]. 8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations and cartoons in the text, some light spotting; pictorial green cloth, upper board printed and lettered in black, green cloth backstrip lettered in black, a good, firm copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. Humorous evocation of the Edwardian navy immediately prior to WWI.

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Book number: 37306

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, to 1914, theeluker, royal navy, ww1, wwi, great war

GUTTERIDGE, ed. H. C.

Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins. Documents relating to the Suppression of the Jacobin Revolution at Naples, June 1799. Edited by H.C. Gutteridge. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Navy Records Society,, 1903. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece map, free endpapers very lightly browned; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, blue buckram back lettered in gilt, uncut, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound) else a brght, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. XXV.

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Book number: 44111

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Keywords: naval, nrs, navy records society, nelson, neapolitan jacobins, jacobins, naples, gutteridge

GWYN, ed. Julian

The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers 1736-1752. Edited by Julian Gwyn. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Navy Records Society,, 1975. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. 118.

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Book number: 18305

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Keywords: naval, navy records society, nrs, royal navy, north america, warren papers, julian gwyn

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