Foreword Earl Mountbatten (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Scratch on front cover. Fresh covers, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contains black and white illustrations. No dust-jacket. A small adhesive label on the lower edge of the reverse of the rear end-paper with the previous owner's collection reference. Quantity…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 261 pp numerous bw illustrations and diagrams, red brown cloth gilt titles. A small stain to top edge which show at topmost margin of some pages otherwise clean sound book in like dust wrapper Over 2kg packed Outside UK will need extra postage. B/w I…

Condition: Very Good. None. 200 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in red cloth, black title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight tanning from age to edges. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great condition for its age. Book traces the history of…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Orange-coloured hardback with gold lettering to spine. 145 x 218 x 24mm. 200pp. B/w plates. Ex-library, with library mark on spine and stamps and stickers to front endpaper; evidently re-bound by library; cover lightly worn; largely clean internally, though with slight m…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly sunned, not price clipped (£6.25), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 179pp, illustrated. The asto…

Revised fifth edition (as stated upon copyright page; originally published 1931). xiv, 175 pages. Hardcover: H 25.25cm x L 18.75cm. Dust jacket soiled with some foxing/toning; chipping and tears at spine ends with lesser wear at other edges; front flap's bottom corner clipped. Dark green cloth with vibrant gilt stamped lettering…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1985. Flat spine. THE FRONT END PAPER & THE TITLE PAGE ARE INCORRECTLY CUT. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. ----------------- LAID IN: Publishers review slip. ------------------ Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, blue and white sailing rigged silhouettes to the end papers. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains [xiv], 192 pp with 16 pp colour plates, nearly 100 monochrome text illustrations throughout. Fine condition bo…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, blue and white sailing rigged silhouettes to the end papers. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains [xiv], 192 pp with 16 pp colour plates, nearly 100 monochrome text illustrations throughout. Fine conditi…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original indigo paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, maps to the end papers, blue dyed upper edges. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 201 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 283 pp with maps, diagrams and monochrome archive photographs to the central pages. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Now protected in clear plastic sleeve for protection against wear and tear. Member o…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. New & Revised Edition. xv, 701 pages. Index. Generously illustrated with diagrams and black and white reproductions of archival photos. "The final word on the subject, a book that can never ben superceded. The sources from which it is drawn are principally the Official Ret…

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xxxix. First edition. White and blue dust jacket with black and white illustration to front. Blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. A good plus copy with slightly faded top edge, slight slant to spine, with bumped top of spine. good minus dust jac…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, xxxix, 696 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is partially sunned blue with gilt lettering. Boards have some shelf wear, rubbing, minor tears to the bottom of the spine, and a library identification sticker on the spine. Text block has minor light pencil writing on the rear paste down and dedi…

1st edition cloth binding Nice copies quarto xix + 511, 512-1086pp., folding charts, appendix, Volume 1: The Royal Houses; Volume 1: The Families. Volume one in a nice blue buckram library cloth; volume two in original cloth. Volume one has 39pp. in facsimile. Some small stamps of the State Library of Victoria o/w nice bright, c…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 152 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. List of suggested further reading. "The fascinating, true story of the first frogman unit formed by the Allies in World War II, related by the Canadian naval officer who raised the commanded the…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, gold gilt illustration to front board. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 510pp. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs, maps, c…

First edition, signed by Mountbatten and by the author on the half-title. Mountbatten, then Admiral of the Fleet, served for over two decades as president of the school, which educated the daughters of Royal Navy officers. Unwin's book traces its history from the spartan regime as founded by one of Nelson's admirals to the moder…

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Mountbatten on the front free endpaper verso, "To Robert, with best wishes for Xmas 1975, from Mountbatten of Burma". The Encyclopedia "is the most comprehensive compilation of pictures, maps, ship drawings and authoritative text yet assembled on the history of war at sea in modern…