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Edité par Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946
Vendeur : KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : As New. First Edition; First Printing. "A" present on copywright page. Ilustrated gray cloth boards, sharp corners, water stain present. Book is firm in binding, 228 pages include Index, water warp and occasional stains, not affecting text. Map illustrated endpapers, with age toning and stain edge, image sharp. Free of any other markings, not ex-library. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 228 pages.
Date d'édition : 1945
Vendeur : T. Cadman WW2 Books, Carmichael, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Etat : good. Country Life (London) 1945, first printing, 228 pp, photos, maps, illus, Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gunboats, Motor Launches, author Commanded Steam Gunboat Squadron, good with minor damp spot to outer edge of front free endpaper and the following page, DJ (rubbing, folds, closed tears, missing small pieces from extremities),
Edité par Country Life Limited. London. ., 1946
Vendeur : Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australie
Reprint of the 1945 original. XII, 228 PP with 4 maps and 30 drawings, plus 8 colour plates and 42 pages with 76 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Moonlight Attack. FEP: North Sea. REP: English Channel. Cloth cover, illustrated front cover, title on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket lightly soiled and with a few chips. War economy paper, light foxing. Name of previous owner (blocked out) on free fly of the front endpaper, o/wise a near fine copy. 25 x 19.2.
Edité par Country Life, 1111
Vendeur : Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Presumed 1st Edition. Type: Book pp xii, 228. Prior owner name to FPD. Published circa 1945.
Edité par COUNTRY LIFE
Vendeur : Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, Royaume-Uni
1945 1ST D/W WEAR EDGES REPAIRED O/W VG/VG.
Vendeur : nautiek, Heiloo, Pays-Bas
1946 London, Hardcover 228 pages, with photographs, plans and an index. In very good condition.
Edité par Country Life, 1946., London, 1946
Vendeur : Military Books, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Hardback. Etat : Very Good. 2nd ed. 228p. Photos. Maps. Color Illustrations. Green cloth. Large format. Sunned. Very Good Copy. Book.
Edité par Scribner's, 1946., 1946
Vendeur : Military Books, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None. First Edition. 1st ed. Photos. Maps. Color Illustrations. Green cloth. Large format. Bottom of spine worn. Very Good Copy. Book.
Edité par Country Life London, 1946
Vendeur : A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
2nd edn., xii, 228pp, 79 half tone photos and drawings on 48pp, coloured frontis and 7 other coloured plates by author, maps (each different) at endpapers and in text, numerous small line ills. in text, pale blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, lettered and decorated in dark blue upper board, large format about 10 x 8 inches, pictorial dustwrapper, an accomplished wildfowl artist and writer the author joined the Royal Navy serving in the destroyer HMS Broke in the Atlantic until the winter of 1941. When Broke paid off for a long refit Scott, the first lieutenant, was offered command of a steam gunboat which he accepted. Steam gunboats were the largest vessels of Coastal Forces, 150 feet long powered by twin steam turbines and the most heavily armed ships of the navy for their size with 1 x 3" gun, 2 x 6 pounder guns, 2 x twin 20mm cannon and 2 x 21" torpedo tubes. His account of the 'Battle of the Narrow Seas' relates his and his colleagues personal experiences in the English Channel and the southern North Sea, where the Coastal Forces, the ML's, MTB's and MGB's and his own steam gunboats took the battle to the enemy in his own coastal waters; includes the raids on St. Nazaire and Dieppe, and Normandy, photo ills. include MTB 19, 20, 21, 23, 74, 205, 360, 447, 621, 724, MGB 61, 88, ML 117, 145, 150, 230, 903, 1368, SGB 8, 9, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., several slall patches colour loss to cloth, edges tanned, 2 line ink name/date verso half title, dustwrapper: rubbed with chipping to spine ends. and cnrs. and nicks to edges, restored to reverse, light overall soiling, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
Edité par Country Life London, 1945
Vendeur : A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
1st edn., xii, 228pp, 79 half tone photos and drawings on 48pp, coloured frontis and 7 other coloured plates by author, maps (each different) at endpapers and in text, numerous small line ills. in text, pale blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, lettered and decorated in dark blue upper board, large format about 10 x 8 inches, pictorial dustwrapper, an accomplished wildfowl artist and writer the author joined the Royal Navy serving in the destroyer HMS Broke in the Atlantic until the winter of 1941. When Broke paid off for a long refit Scott, the first lieutenant, was offered command of a steam gunboat which he accepted. Steam gunboats were the largest vessels of Coastal Forces, 150 feet long powered by twin steam turbines and the most heavily armed ships of the navy for their size with 1 x 3" gun, 2 x 6 pounder guns, 2 x twin 20mm cannon and 2 x 21" torpedo tubes. His account of the 'Battle of the Narrow Seas' relates his and his colleagues personal experiences in the English Channel and the southern North Sea, where the Coastal Forces, the ML's, MTB's and MGB's and his own steam gunboats took the battle to the enemy in his own coastal waters; includes the raids on St. Nazaire and Dieppe, and Normandy, photo ills. include MTB 19, 20, 21, 23, 74, 205, 360, 447, 621, 724, MGB 61, 88, ML 117, 145, 150, 230, 903, 1368, SGB 8, 9, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., small fray to cloth at tail of spine, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed with chipping to spine ends. and cnrs. and nicks to edges, restored to reverse, light overall soiling, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
Edité par Country Life, 1946., London, 1946
Vendeur : Military Books, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardback. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 1st ed. 228p. Photos. Maps. Color Illustrations. Green cloth. Large format. Very Good Copy. Book.
Edité par Scribner's, 1946., 1946
Vendeur : Military Books, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : None. First Edition. 1st ed. Photos. Maps. Color Illustrations. Green cloth. Large format. Fine Copy. Book.
Edité par Country Life Ltd., London., 1945
Vendeur : EmJay Books, Bradford., Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. xii, 228pp, photos, cold. illustrations, charts, ep maps. History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Chanel and North Sea, 1939-1945. Nice clean copy in clipped, minor edge wear wrapper. 1.2kg.
Edité par Country Life, 1945
Vendeur : Frank Hofmann, Yorba Linda, CA, Etats-Unis
Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Full cloth binding. First edition. SIGNED by author. Covers faded and "foxed" around edges. Top of spine frayed. Corners somewhat bumped. Covers a bit dirty here and there. Inscriptions and names by two previous owners on flyleaf. Inscription and signature by author on half-title page. Interior otherwise unmarked. The book is about English torpedo boats battling German shipping during World War II in the North Sea and the English Channel. Peter Scott, the son of Robert Falcon Scott, who died during a polar expedition in 1912, not only wrote the book, he also made the 12 color paintings used as illustrations. 228 pages. Illustrations/photos. Index. Binding tight and square. Inscribed by Author(s).
Edité par Scribner's, 1946., 1946
Vendeur : Military Books, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 1st ed. Photos. Maps. Color Illustrations. Large format. Fine/Very Good Copy. Book.
Edité par London: Country Life Limited, 1945
Vendeur : Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Royaume-Uni
First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 228 pp. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, blue lettered to the spine and upper board with a matching illustration to the upper cover, dust jacket, inscribed on the half title "To Commander Giddy with grateful thanks for all his helpful advice & co-operation. from Peter Scott / November 1945". Frontispiece and 7 plates in colour plus 48 pages of black and white illustrations, many photographic, and further illustrations and charts in the text. A little wear and tear to the jacket edges, very good overall. Commander Osman Cyril Horton Giddy (1900-80) served in the Royal Navy as a young man, earning a D.S.C. for service during a raid on Kronstadt in 1919. He was stationed at HMS Beehive, Felixstowe in the Second World War and was assigned the compllation of a monthly review of British Coastal Forces amongst other duties. Scott mentions Giddy on p. 125 of the book, praising him for his "comprehensive" studies of warfare being waged and the "staff requirements".