Captain stephen roskill (15 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Slipcase. 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has small 'H' to front board in black marker, very slight bumps to spine ends, and foxing to interior hinges, otherwise a solid, sharp VG+ copy in VG slipcase which is cracking where left and rear panels meet but is still solid, light bumps to corners with boards barely peeking through, and rubbing.…

hardcover. Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. With slipcase.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. One page corner is dog-eared, very little wear overall. Quite clean. Illustrated. First published in 1831, Folio Society reprint MCMLXXVI. Bound in deep blue cloth with nautical theme. Includes leather-pattern slipcase which shows rubbing to the boards. 261 pages. 5.75 x 9 inches. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 1st Wordsworth Edition. Paperback. The Navy at War. 1939-1945. The author writes with the same simplicity and ease whether he is describing the movement of ships in a single action or the relation of a whole campaign to the strategy of total war. The narrative is thrilling and the analyses clear: Roskill describes the major sea battles such as the River Plate and Matapan as well as the characteristic convoy actions of the Battle of the Atlantic, Murmansk and Malta. He covers the contribution made by British technology in the shape of the Asdic and Radar but the story is, above all, about the courage and skill of the officers and men who made the victory possible. Illustrated. 480 pp.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No dust jacket, as issued. Comes with the original slipcase. The SC has no cracks or tears, but the four front corners are showing some wear. The bottom has one tiny spot of wear. The book has clean text, tight binding, no marks or writing, sharp corners.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good ++. No Slipcase. 261 pages. No slipcase. No Dustjacket. Blue hardback binding with compass and sea design to front. minimal wear, just a little dustiness to edges. B&W drawings. Maps to end-papers. Pages very clean and in nice condition.

Reprint. Hardcover. Bound in papered illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slip-case. Edited and with an introduction by Roskill. Illustrated with b/w plates and maps.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing. Various (illustrateur).

Hardback. Etat : New. No Jacket. First Thus. THE EVENTFUL HISTORY OF THE MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF HMS BOUNTY ITS CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES Sir John Barrow. Edited and with an Introduction by Captain Stephen W Roskill. Folio Society, London 1976 First thus. Second printing. 262pp Illustrated Fine Binding. This new copy is set in 11 point Ehrhardt type leaded 1 point and printed on Silver Opaque paper bound in blue Winter's Snowdon cloth and blocked with a design by Jeff Clements. It is encased in a robust card slip case covered in brown paper covered card The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (1831) by Sir John Barrow is considered the classic account of the Mutiny on the Bounty. It includes a description of the island of Tahiti, and a narrative of events from the embarkation of the Bounty in 1787 through to the trial of some of the mutineers in 1792 and the survival of others on Pitcairn Island. The story is told through the medium of the original documents in the case, which Barrow critically evaluates. It was first published in 1831 by John Murray as the 25th volume in their Family Library series. An American edition followed under the title 'A Description of Pitcairn's island and its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers' (New York: Harper, 1832). The many later reissues include this Folio Society edition edited by Captain Roskill with a new authoritative introduction. Ref Showcase.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. FOLIO SOCIETY edition with slipcase - highly collectable.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 2nd Edition. 8vo. 261pp. In colour illustrated boards, having gilt titles to spine and brown card slipcase. Map illustration to end papers. Frontis portrait of Captain Bligh. A Fine copy. Second Impression.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Fabulous hardback book, with gilt title impression, set in brown coloured blocked box, positioned on the top part of the spine. Comes with dark green coloured box, slipcase. The book is in excellent condition, it looks like its hardly been used or read. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. First published by The Folio Society in 1976, reprinted with a new binding in 1998, this specific edition is the fifth printing 2001. Endpapers drawn by Reginald Piggott. 261 pages all intact, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in excellent, clean readable order. Printed at St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds. Bound by Cambridge University Press. Binding Illustration: Mutineers on HMS Bounty casting Captain Bligh adrift. Oil painting by Robert Dodd, 1790 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.) Another stunning book from The Folio Society Folio.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. The Folio Society, London 1998 pictorial hardback with slipcase 2nd impression 261 pages with b/w illustrations and maps to eps, has 3 very slight marks to 2 pages Otherwise covers and inside in EXCELLENT CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER AS NEW Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Dust Jacket. Reprint with a new binding. 5th printing. An unread book in an as new condition slipcase. Fine pictorial printed binding.

1p., 4to. He is honoured to be asked to talk to the Napier Society (a military history society at Sandhurst), but is 'right in the middle of the Cambridge term', as a Fellow of Churchill College, and so must 'propose a subject which I have already talked about.' He suggests two topics: 'Trade Defence in World War II' and 'Some Reasons for Official History', in the last of which he tries 'to answer criticisms of that form of history and describe the sources I had used and the way I had worked when writing The War at Sea 1939-45'. He ends by warning Brett-James that his deafness makes him 'pretty hopeless in discussion unless I can have somebody to repeat questions to me. With most of my audiences this has worked satisfactorily, so I hope you can make arrangements to overcome my disabilitiy.' Brett-James's official title was 'Head of Department, War Studies & International Affairs, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst'.…