Rise and Fall of the British Navy de Humble, Richard - 1986

Trans-Atlantic Publications, Incorporated, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

London : Queen Anne Press , 1986 . First Edition . VG/VG . 8VO . Illustrated with black and white photos. Remainder dot on lower edge, light wear to book and unclipped jacket, owner's stamp on FFEP.

London.: Macdonald/Queen Anne Press., 1986. 255pp, illustrations. Light shelf wear. Pages are tanned.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macdonald and Company - Queen Anne Press, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 255 pp. Blue boards decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. The Chapters are: PART ONE: INSTRUMENT OF SURVIVAL: From the Tudors to VJ Day: Four Centuries of Sea Power 1509 - 1919; Two Decades of Decline 1919 - 1939; Poor Relations 1943 - 1945; Retrospect 1945: The Last Lesson. PART TWO: THE INSTRUMENT DEMOLISHED 1945 - 1985: Demobilisation and Austerity 1945 - 1948; The Birth of NATO 1949 - 1950; From Korea to Suez 1950 - 1956; Suez and After: The Fatal Reaction; Submarine Revolution Carrier Debate; The Doomsday Ships: Into the Polaris Era; Nineteen-Sixties: The Deadly Decade; The Long Bleed: 1966 - 1982; The Falklands War March - June 1982; and Falklands Aftermath: On Course for Disaster; followed by notes and an index..

U. S. A.: Macdonald Queen Anne Press, 1986. Hardcover 1st edition - Some shelf and edgewear, otherwise a good clean solid copy. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed,& but otherwise good. Pages are a little age toned. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Illlustrated.

London: Macdonald/Queen Anne Press , 1986. Hardcover. Fair. A critical history of the Royal Navy from its origins in the 16th Century, through to World War II, and then to the Falklands War and its aftermath. Size 23.5 x 14.5cm, 255 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, pictorial laminated boards in very Fair condition, internally Fair: generally clean and unmarked in sound bindings.

TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1986-04-17. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.7919 in x 23.0964 in x 14.4670 in.

TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1986-04-17. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Unclipped dust jacket. Hard cover. Sloped spine. Book is in good condition. Small marks on both sides of the front cover and back cover, front of the first page and on the back of last page. Small mark on every page. Foxing. Discolouration present. Slight wear present. Fold creasing present. Scruff marks on the front and back cover, at the sides of every page. Remnant of sticker present on the front cover. Scruff mark on a few pages. Small stain at the side and bottom of a few of the pages.

London: MacDonald, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255pp. 520g. Illustrated with b/w plates. A well argued indictment of successive governments neglectful treatment of the Royal Navy since 1945. Blue cloth boards, with browning to page edges o/w tight and clean internally. V.G. in V.G. d/w with minimal edgewear,.