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UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,unblemished, publisher's original,dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to upper bd+spine/backstrip,headband, and clean,blue+white illustrated eps. UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-231pp [paginated] includes intro by Ludovic Kennedy,12 chapters includes prologue+epilogue,profuse illustrations (400+) throughout the text and the book comprising full-colour maps, charts and diagrams,foldouts,appendix and an index.
"Titanic team finds Bismarck" ran the headlines on June 14,1989, announcing Robert Ballard's discovery of… Leer más

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1987.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour pictorial decorated upper wrap; colour photographs rear wrap dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear to edges and a small water-stain to foot of spine/backstrip.Top of same lightly creased and bumped.Blue cloth boards with stamped gilt TITANIC to upper bd and gilt letters to spine/backstrip and decorated eps.Fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and clean.UK,Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,230pp includes colour photographic double spread title page,an introduction by Walter Lord;profuse b/w+colour photographs, b/w illus,diagrams+maps; Titanic chronology,a glossary and an index. On a cold April night in 1912,the magnificent new liner R.M.S.Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic.The following day the words "TITANIC LOST" shocked the world.Seventy-three years later,on September 1,1985,the headlines would proclaim "TITANIC FOUND." For on that morning,Dr… Leer más

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete letter line A C E G I K J H F D B.Possibly an association copy - as author's personal business card with his web-site+email addresses and his UK,US and Kenya 'phone numbers on it,laid in loose. Also loose,other ephemera - INDUSTRIA ARGENTINA, New York City,10013 and Azul ARGENTINE BISTRO,152 Stanton St., Lower East Side NYC business cards - (Latin American,South American restaurant and a bistro - and both closed approx 2008.) FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (US$25.00) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated dw/dj design by Larry Rostant,with blue,white and gilt colour lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+ foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,and both external vertical edges of dw/djs' inner flaps have a couple of minor,superficial abrasions in places - but without affecting the board's edges beneath.Top+fore-edges… Leer más

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,yellow+black pictorial illustrated dw/dj (detail of 'Fireships at La Hogue,by Adriaanvan Dienst - National Maritime Museum, London.) and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj is inevitably,lightly sunned/ faded.Top edges coloured green,fore-edges crisp,bright,white and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher' original,plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate cream+green map (England,France and the English Channel) illustrated endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,12- 192pp [paginated] includes introduction,10 chapters,7 b/w maps (excluding eps),9 b/w contemporary historical… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author inscribed/SIGNED,1st edn.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,author inscribed+SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj but inscribed by author: "Best Wishes Albert George Wells" to ffe.Bright,clean,glossy, laminated b/w illustrated upper wrap,b/w publisher's advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to ant pages' corners.Bright,clean immaculate plain red rexine-type bds (boards) with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,apart from author's inscrptn+signature,plain yellow eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED, 1st edn,1-79pp includes half-title+title pages and comprises 683 comic verses. Book is entirely in comic verse aimed at being pure escapism.It relates the adventures of three main characters in search of treasure; a sailor,his parrot and a monk.The parrot,who has a wooden… Leer más

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.An accidental,vertical crease to front inner flap of dw/dj. Top edge lightly,sporadically foxed,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked printer's device to upper board's bottom,right-hand corner and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate generally bright and clean,plain white endpapers,with merest hint of very light foxing to same.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,13- 184pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters,66 assorted contemporary b/w photographs,drawings/diagrams throughout the text and the book,appendices (5),a conclusion,an index; plus… Leer más

UK,ex-lib 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.[Though an ex-public library book,in the publisher's original,beige buckram binding with sealed,cellophane protection to boards upto it's edges; and with all it's usual library alpha-numerical notations,it's overall appearance both externally and internally,commensurate with it's age,is of a solid, sound,clean example.] No previous owner inscrptn,but a neat,clean,dark blue Anchor motif'ed 'Plymouth Public Libraries - MOUNT WISE NAVAL HISTORY LIBRARY' bookplate pasted to plain white front pastedown.A horizontal,rectangular,red ink 'Withdrawn From Plymouth Library Services' library stamp to top third of ffe; recto of title-page with usual public library alpha-numerical notations/markings/stamps.Rear free endpaper's bottom edge has a taped library barcode and finally another slim rectangular,faded black ink 'Plymouth Public Libraries' stamp to book's bottom edges. Library written (?) black ink lettering (title+author) and 5 number library notation to foot of… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Blue paper-covered bds with white letters to spine/backstrip and b/w map eps.8vo,226pp includes 20 b/w photographs in 8pp. Adrift in the immensity of the Pacific Ocean,five fishermen from Costa Rica struggled against thirst,hunger and despair for an incredible 142 days,the longest such endurance on record.When finally rescued,the men had drifted 4,500 miles from their home shores,crossing four time-zones,and had survived on a diet of rainwater,fish and turtles. Here,journalist Ron Arias relates their courageous,tenacious battle with the implacable forces of nature.The men's ordeal began on 25 January 1988 when a sudden storm overtook the small fishing boat Cairo III.After spending many exhausting hours simply keeping the boat… Leer más

UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,2nd revised edn. VG+.No dw/dj, no owner inscrptn.Plain,dark-blue cloth covered boards, lightly grubbed but generally clean,with minimal shelf-wear or bumping and bright,blocked gilt letters to upper board and lightly oxidised and not so bright letters to spine/backstrip.Top edge slightly aged/toned, fore-edge slighlty less so and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean. UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj, 2nd revised edn,iii-vipp+1-74pp [paginated] includes colour frntis+3 other colour plates, title page,contents list,10 b/w line illustrations by R Morton Nance and 3 b/w line illustrations by Cecil King in text,66 b/w photographic plates to rear and a list of principal museums and other Institutions in Europe and America containing ship models. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,2nd edn.[True 1st edn was published 1963,this edn completely revised,reset and with additional material.] VG+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - tiny nicks to top+bottom corners of upper wrap and to bottom corner of rear wrap.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged and sporadically foxed/spotted; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,original,plain dark brown cloth boards with crisp,bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and b/w map endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 2nd edn,9-288pp [paginated] includes prefaces to 1st+2nd editions,22 chapters,16pp of contemporary b/w illus/ photographs,in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece,between pp96/7, pp128/9,pp160/1 and pp192/3 respectively,3 b/w line illus,list of… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.Small clip to top corner ffe,price-clipped dw/dj.Very slight shelf-wear top edge dw/dj,no nicks,no tears. Contents bright tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,381pp includes b/w map,64 b/w plates. The story of Heyerdahl's first Pacific adventure,before WWII.Having increasing doubts about modern man's uncritical worship of material progress,the young Thor found himself a bride who shared his views and doubts and with her sailed by Tahitian schooner for the lonely jungle island of Fatu-Hiva in the Marquesas Group.Living there,off the land, they reckoned to find the answer to the questions that had been troubling him: Is man's flight from nature really 'progress'? Is man better or worse off in office and factory than primitive man gathering fruits and fishing in the wilderness? What does technological civilization look like from outside? Fatu-Hiva lay outside the shipping lanes.There were no… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+./NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around b/w photographic dw/dj and red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - and spine/backstrip not sunned or faded.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean with minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,unblemished, publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-255pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,16pp comprising 24 contemporary b/w photographs,between pp128/9,authors' notes,appendix,13pp facsimile log pages to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and contents list/table. On a stormy Saturday in September,1966 John Ridgway and Chay… Leer más

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, but price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj [burning of the English Fleet at Chatham,painted by Peter vanden Velde - Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam.]; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally spotted/foxed,fore-edge cleaner but minisculely spotted/foxed; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,clean,original blue cloth boards with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean blue+white various ship outlines/ silhouettes illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xivpp+1-192pp [paginated] includes half-title,b/w illus double-page title page,a b/w illus frntis,a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma; a contents list,author preface,12 chapters,100+ contemporary b/w illus - scenic,portraits, maps+diagrams (excluding… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj but with a black ink,capital lettered WITHDRAWN stamp to ffe. [Assumed an ex-library copy/edn - but there are no other such markings or indications to that effect,in the book.] Partial loss to top corner of ffe also.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around b/w photographic dw/dj and red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges,two small nicks/closed tears top+bottom,rear board's corners.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,unblemished, publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-255pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,16pp comprising 24 contemporary b/w photographs,between pp128/9,authors' notes,an appendix,13pp facsimile log pages to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a… Leer más

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around seascape colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with glossy pale green-lettered part-title and white lettered sub-title,capitalised glossy green/blue-lettered author name; and other white+pale green lettered review; spine/ backstrip with similalrly coloured+lettered part title,glossy pale blue-lettered author name and publisher'scapitalised white-lettered +illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with critics' white+pale green-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners, head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocaal creases – but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edge colour tinted very pale yellow,fore-edges lightly toned(?) but clean without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated panels of dw/dj,with gilt,orange and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - a 3/5ths inch closed tear to front top edge, towards spine/backstrip's gutter's edge -no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, viiipp+2-304pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,an introduction, 10 chapters,and a conclusion,8pp contemporary b/w+ colour autobiographical photographs in 1 block,between pp152/3,acknowledgements,and an index; plus… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and minimal bumping to corners and head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.A tiny,tiny nick/closed tear,to both top+bottom edges of rear wrap of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged - as usual/normal - but clean; contents bright,tight and clean also.Bright,clean,publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate blue+white navigation chart illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-419pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list,a prologue,25 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs,newspaper headlines,cartoons in three blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp86/7,pp214/15 and pp342/43 respectively,author's note,acknowledgements,appendix and permissions.… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Owner inscrptn,price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,132pp includes index+appendices,b/w photographs,illus and plans. The SS GREAT BRITAIN,launched in 1844,is a unique ship,since she not only played a major part in the transition from sail to steam,but also set the stage for a century of ship development. She was the first iron ship,the largest yet built,and the first to be driven by screw propulsion.Designed by ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL.Apart from her significance in the evolution of naval architecture,her story provides a fascinating insight to many aspects of mid-Victorian England.Her active career covered a period of consolidation of the Industrial Revolution at home and the expansion of British trade and influence… Leer más

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,Olympic/Titanic(?) ship's colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,grey-lettered title,other grey-lettered author's name,a white spine/backstrip with capitalised,black-lettered title, other black-lettered author name and green illustrated +lettered publisher's colophon to foot of same,rear panel with b/w thumbnail ship photograph of front's ship's photograph with black lettered paragraph extract from book.Negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present - but both lower corners minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing Internally to foot of the spine/backstrip and the rear lower edge of the dw/dj,a small waterstain minimally affecting the commensurate area of the board,and is visible externally.Inevitable age-acquired but minimal and superficial scoring/indents to either panel of dw/dj but without penetration to boards… Leer más

UK,8vo,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped to dw/dj.Colour photographic wrap-around illustrated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to top edge only and lightly bumped head of spine/backstrip - bottom edge virtually untouched.Top+fore-edges near pristine,contents the same.Blue rexine-type boards with stamped,crisp, bright gilt letters to spine/backstrip and blue+white line illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-256pp,includes colour yacht photographic frntis,title page,contents list;an introduction,profuse b/w diagrams and photographs with some colour photographs scattered throughout and an index. In recent years the sea has become a foremost arena for human endeavour.Feats of all types under sail and power are undertaken by crews and individuals.Records are frequently reported - but are they really the first single-handed voyage over a certain ocean,the fastest… Leer más