ROYAL NAVY (RN)

Booth, Tony

(Book #ID 102485)

Published by Pen & Sword Maritime, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire First Edition 2007. 2007.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xv], 211 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £19.99. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781844155651

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Bone, David W. [Sir David William Bone CBE (22 June 1874 - 17 May 1959) was a Scottish Commodore and author of nautical fiction]. Drawings by Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 - 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars.

(Book #ID 113967)

Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd, 42 William IV Street, London First Edition 1949. 1949.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over navy ground. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains (xx), 332 pp with 15 plates and 17 monochrome headpieces. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Bartimeus [Captain Lewis Ritchie] Drawings by Douglas Swale

(Book #ID 60794)

Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London circa 1918. London circa 1918.

Hard back binding in publisher's original stone cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel with yellow crest and blue stripes. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 332 printed pages of text with detailed monochrome drawings throughout. Age darkened spine and closed page edges, rubs to the softened spine ends and corners, ghosting to the end papers, ink marking dated 1918 to the front free end paper and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald [Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon KCB, KCVO, DSO (6 September 1863 - 9 June 1947) was an officer in the Royal Navy noted for his technical abilities. He was described by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, as the man "acknowledged to be the cleverest officer in the Navy".

(Book #ID 86915)

Published by George H. Doran, New York First US Edition 1919. 1919.

Uniform matching first edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spines, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xxxii] 370; [x] 346 printed pages of text with 78 plates, 16 illustrations and plans in the text and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, one with a repaired tear to the reverse. The Dover Patrol was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918, it formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War. Its primary task was to prevent enemy German shipping, chiefly submarines, from entering the English Channel en route to the Atlantic Ocean, thereby obliging the German Navy to travel via the much longer route around Scotland which was itself covered by the Northern Patrol. Very Good condition books in scarce Good condition dust wrappers with water mark to the bottom spine of volume I, and the fore edges of both volumes, small chips to the spine ends and corners, price clipped. Dust wrappers supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Ballantyne, Iain

(Book #ID 87617)

Published by Leo Cooper, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire First Edition 2003. 2003.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 7''. Contains 228 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with nick to the foot of the spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0850528437

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Beeler, John

(Book #ID 88172)

Published by Chatham Publishing, 61 Frith Street, London First Edition 2001. 2001.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy covers, gilt title lettering to the spine. 4to 11¾'' x 10''. Contains 224 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations, engravings and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1861761678

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Bevan, David [Chapter Heading Illustrations by Michael Presswell]

(Book #ID 112420)

Published by Larson Publications Ltd., First Edition 1972. 1972.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. HMS Birkenhead was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy. She was designed as a steam frigate, but was converted to a troopship before being commissioned. While transporting troops and a few civilians to Algoa Bay, the Birkenhead was wrecked on 26 February 1852 at Danger Point near Gansbaai, 87 miles from Cape Town in the Cape Colony. There were insufficient serviceable lifeboats for all the passengers, and the soldiers famously stood in ranks on board, thereby allowing the women and children to board the boats safely and escape the sinking. Only 193 of the estimated 643 people on board survived, and the soldiers' chivalry gave rise to the unofficial "women and children first" protocol when abandoning ship, while the "Birkenhead drill" of Rudyard Kipling's poem came to describe courage in the face of hopeless circumstances. Contains (xiii), 190 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with rubbing to the corners and spine ends. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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