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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover with red cloth over boards, gold lettering across front cover and black lettering across spine. Spine discolored, a little less than half a shade darker than covers. Corners bumped, fraying slightly. Overall neat. Title page dated 1916. No separate copyright page. 388 pages, followed by about 20 pages of ads. Ads are glossy and untoned, printed on different paper than the body of the text. Plates are clean and glossy. Title, half title page, and appendix are foxed over their full surface. All other pages are clean, lightly and evenly toned. Former owner's name written neatly on half title page. Binding is shallowly cracked along front gutter and at center of text. Back gutter has previously been repaired with binding tape. No loose pages. Overall neat and secure. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

first edition 388pp ills.[b/w] VG (red cloth,rubbed and sl.soiled,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,amateur internal reinforcements to head/foot of spine,sl.shaky boards,numerous newspaper and magazine cuttings pasted to prelims.front and rear,notes in ink also added to prelims.and to tables throughout,contents sl.foxed,spine cracked and mod.shaky) relatively tidy despite the added notes and ephemera.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Full title: The Navy League Annual (corrected to January 31st, 1916). Eighth Year of Issue. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering and anchor design on front cover. Wear to corners and spine ends with some minor damage to top of spine. Small split in cloth at top of spine joint on front cover. Paper on both inner hinges is completely split but covers are firmly attached and binding is sound. Plate at page 161 is a little loose. Spine is faded and covers and spine are marked. Half-title page is darkened. Pages and plates are clean. Contents include: Part I - Influence of British Navy upon the Course of the War, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese and French Navies in the War, Aircraft and Airships, Naval Engineering. Part II - Official documents relating to the Royal Navy. Part III - Tables of Warship Losses. 23 pages of advertising bound at rear. Contains many black and white illustrations. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 75220064035. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo 388 + xxiipp., b/w pls., maps, appends., 'Inc. many important articles by leading naval writers of the day including Hector Bywater. Articles include Collapse of German Naval Speculation, Imperial Japanese Navy at War, French Navy in the War, Italian Navy & its attitude to the War, Russian Navy in the War, The Airship in Modern Warfare, Naval Engineering and the War, Naval Dispatches, Tables of Warship Losses, etc. There is also an account of the fight off Heligoland, capture of the EMDEN, minesweeping operations off Scarborough, action off the Falklands.' Binding very worn & weak hinges but internally sound. A very good reading/reference copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 388 pages + plates + advertisements. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt anchor illustration on front board. Spine very faded. 3/8" tears and splits to cloth at head and tail of spine. Gutters cracked at hinges. Owner's signature. Rubber stamp on title page: "Otago Boys' High School". Cloth covers rubbed and worn. Some foxing. ; 8vo.