Robert Blake: General at Sea Tapa dura - 1972

London: Collins, 1972. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and a touch edgeworn. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (olive boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8½” x 5½” (0.9 kg); 352pp; Index; Includes: Plans of battle; Black & white plates; Maps; List of abbreviations; References; Frontispiece; Appendices (2); ISBN: 0-0021-1726-6 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195914|| Condition:

London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Wear to top edges of front dust jacket cover. Wear to dust jacket spine. Gilt lettering on hardcover spine. Binding clean and sturdy..

London, England: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1972. First U.K. Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 352pp with notes, appendix and index. Six unpaginated indexed plates including frontispiece, plus other indexed illustrations, maps and plans in text. Light green boards with crisp gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Illustrated DJ clean showing very small surface wear to corners, head and tail. DJ preserved now in archival cover. "This vivid and scholarly portrait provides the first authoritative biography of Blake and a lucid and original account of that crucible of sailing tactics, the first Dutch War.

HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1972-08-24. Hardcover. Good.

London : Collins, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 352, [11] pages illustrations, facsimile, maps, portraits 22 cm. Subjects; Great Britain Royal Navy Blake, Robert, b.1598. Dutch War English Civil Navy Admiral British Spanish Fleet Biography. Great Britain History, Naval Stuarts, 1603-1714.