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London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1989. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8], 216. With a colour frontispiece portrait of Viscount Trenchard, and 12 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author to Guy Huntrods, a prominent Tunbridge Wells based veteran, for his 75th birthday, in bright blue ink to title page. Also..... More
San Gwann: Publishers Enterprises Group, 1994. [Military Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (31 x 25cm), pp.xxiv; 502 [2]; pp.xviii; 368 [2]. With numerous colour plates, many folding, as well as reproductions of engravings and a large index, to volume II, and full descriptions and notes to volume..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1973. First Edition. A further instalment in the brilliantly expert Bolitho series. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. March 1784: Bolitho, new captain of His Majesty's frigate Undine, begin a voyage to India and far beyond and finds himself involved in a ruthless conflict. More
London: Hutchinson and Co. 1971. [Naval saga] FIRST EDITION, Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's dark brown cloth in a handsome pictorial dustjacket depicting the 'Battle of the Nile', engraved by Robert Pollard from a painting by Nicholas Pocock. Front and back endpapers are decorated with the map of Spain..... More
London: Heinemann 1990. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY with Heinemann's slip inserted. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £13.95. Near Fine with slight age toning to page edges, in Fine dustwrapper..... More
New York, NY: Grossman Publishers / Aperture, 1969. 83 Photographs by Robert Frank with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Frank's classic, moving photo-portrait of American life, from drive-ins, diners and Angels through cowboys, casinos and cocktails. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt..... More