Amodeo Colin Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With b&w illstns. Library markings in front and rear endpapers and to dust jacket which is intact and well protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fire Sugar, Fire Pudding. Pat Clark Hall's Letters from a Torpedo Boat 1943 -1945. Edited by Colin Amodeo. Publisher: Clark Hall Family, New Zealand, 2009, FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. OUT OF PRINT Large hardback with jacket, very good, minor marks. 160 pages, illustrated. His torpedo boat was roughly the size of a large civilian cruising launch. She carried torpedoes named Sugar (starboard) and Pudding (port side). In this plywood hull with ammunition and fuel, the crews knew they were manning a floating bomb. This very readable story is balanced with wicked humour, history and heroism. It opens a window on the sea war in the Mediterranean and brings to life the extraordinary war story of a well-known Cantabrian. Includes over 100 illustrations, photos and maps. All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 189 pages. 189 pages. tidy copy -with newspaper clipping and service memorial for Ian Qu ilter and signature of w j Baguley & death notice for E C Claydon.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 189 pages illustrated. Blue Cloth HB. No dust jacket ( probably as published ) Collector's edition ? illustrations and lists, a record of the hundred-and-more years of this Canterbury lifeboat service, its development, its people and its rescues.

Hb. Condition: NF+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Deluxe First & Numbered Edition. Deluxe First & Numbered Edition No. 713 of 750 copies. Clean light beige/cream fabric cloth on boards, navy blue cloth spine wrap and gilt border trim. Blindstamped titles. Edges: very faint couple of small smudges to fore-edge. Eps: illustrated with news clippings from The Lyttelton Times. Frontis: with tissue guard and art frame surrounds; colour painting of Port Lyttelton in 1850 by W.H. Raworth, a surveyor emigrating in Sir George Seymour. Beautifully illustrated plates, colour & b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. Navy blue ribbon bookmarker. 358p Box slipcase: As New: solid. Navy blue case with colour art illustration to front & gilt titles. Book & case: 315 x 220 mm / 2kgs.