KNIGHT Frank

The Clipper Ships. IN PUBLISHER'S GIFT BINDING

Collins,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous monochrome photographs and maps in the text; blue padded leather, radial corners, gilt back, navy endpapers, blue marbled edges, a very good, bright, clean copy. One of a number of copies bound as publisher's presentation or gift copies.

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Book number: 37454

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, clipper ships, clippers, sailing clippers, frank knight

KNIGHT E.F.

The Union-Castle and the War 1914-1919. Illustrated by E.G. Fuller. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co.,, 1920. Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes detailed fleet listing. SCARCE.

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Book number: 37881

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Keywords: mstock, naval, maritime, shipping lines, line histories, union-castle, ww1, wwi, great war

KNIGHTON C. S.

The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. NEAR FINE COPY

Ashgate [Farnham] [for] Navy Records Society,, 2011. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 maps; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Navy Records Society, vol. 157.

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Book number: 45689

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, navy records society, nrs, royal navy, edward vi, mary I,

KONSTAM Angus

Battleship Bismarck 1936-1941. Owner's Workshop Manual. An Insight into the Design, Construction and Operation of Nazi Germany's most famous and feared Battleship. NEAR FINE COPY

Haynes, [Yeovil],, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs, and illustrations throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 45387

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, bismarck, kriegsmarine, battleships, angus konstam

KOOP Gerhard

Battleship Tirpitz. [Military Book Club edition].

Conway Maritime Press,, [1998]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; pictorial boards as issued, a fine copy. Essential reading for modellers and capital ship enthusiasts. This is the superior hardbound edition prepared for Doubleday's Military Book Club of New York.

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Book number: 5459

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, german navy, kriegsmarine, battleships, capital ships, warship classes, warship design, gerhard koop, klaus-peter schmolke, naval, wwii, battleship, tirpitz

KORGANOFF Alexandre

The Phantom of Scapa Flow. [Gunther Prien and U-47's attack on the ROYAL OAK.]. [Translated by W. Strachan and D.M. Strachan. First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1974]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text and double-page map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at tail of backstrip. First published in Paris in 1969. A detailed review of Prien's attack on Scapa Flow in October 1939. Prien claimed to have sunk a second battlecruiser as well as ROYAL OAK; the author claims that this was probably IRON DUKE. Enser, p.393; Law, 0098.

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Book number: 50688

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, scapa flow, prien, gunther prien, u-47, royal oak, iron duke, korganoff, alexandre korganoff

KRUG, Hans-Joachim

Reluctant Allies. German-Japanese Naval Relations in World War II. Co-ordinated by Berthold J. Sander-Nagashima. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37140

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, german navy, kriegsmarine, japanese navy, ijn, german-japanese naval relations

KUROWSKI Franz

U-48. The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War. [First English Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Frontline, [Barnsley],, [2012]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 30 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first comprehensive account of 'Vaddi' Schultze and U-48; by August 1941 she had sunk no fewer than 56 merchant vessels and one corvette. Both U-boat and commander survived the war: U-48 was scrapped in 1945; Schultze died in 1987 at the age of 78. First published in Germany in 2007.

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Book number: 46761

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, kreigsmarine, u-boats, submarines, atlantic, u-48, vaddi schultze, franz kurowski

L'HERMINIER J.

Casabianca. The Secret Missions of a Famous Submarine. Translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald.

Frederick Muller,, [1953]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (of de Gaulle), 4 plates and 4 maps in the text; fore-edges a little browned, some offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; upper hinge cracked but binding quite sound, else a good, sound copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. CO's account covers the period April 1942 to September 1943. Law, 1561

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Book number: 4813

Catalogue: Naval0

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LADD J.D.

Assault from the Sea 1939-1945. The Craft, the Landings, the Men. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

David & Charles, Newton Abbot,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. This work remains the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the various types of landing craft, support ships and amphibians developed for seaborne landings. Enser, p.11; Law 1092

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Book number: 41399

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Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, landing craft, support ships, amphibians, beaches, beachheads, normandy, overlord, neptune, j.d. ladd

LADD James D.

SBS. The Invisible Raiders. The History of the Special Boat Squadron from World War Two to the Present. With a Foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel P G Davis. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Arms & Armour,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36389

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal marines, sbs, special boat squadron, james ladd

LAMB James B.

On the Triangle Run. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macmillan, Toronto ON,, [1986]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37205

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, rcn, royal canadian navy, corvettes, atlantic, convoys, james lamb

LAMB Commander Charles

To War in a Stringbag. Foreword by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Evans. [Specially Illustrated US Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Nelson Doubleday, New York NY,, [1980]. 8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the UK as 'War in a Stringbag' in 1977. Well-written account by a pilot who served in virtually every theatre in which the Fleet Air Arm was involved. Vivid coverage of Taranto. Enser, p.88; Law, 9782.

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Book number: 32494

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, fleet air arm, swordfish, taranto, courageous, illustrious, carriers, naval aviation, charles lamb

LAMBERT John

Anatomy of the Ship. The Submarine Alliance. NEAR FINE COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1986]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications. HMS Alliance is now preserved at the Royal Naval Submarine Museum at Gosport. Law, 1124.

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Book number: 15248

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LAMBERT John

Anatomy of the Ship. The Fairmile 'D' Motor Torpedo Boat. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1985]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Arguably the scarcest of all titles 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: 37106

Catalogue: Naval0

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