Dreadnought, Signed (22 results)

Softcover. Condition: As New. Signed by the author. Appears to have never been read, very little shelf wear, pages are unmarked, book is nice and clean.; 5.52 X 1 X 8.27 inches; 400 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 49 Illus. 60 Pages. 20 x 20cms. V/G by A.Preston. Warship in 20thC. Technical developments & international rivalry. End paper diags. Index. Unsigned.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. BI2 - A first printing mass market paperback book signed and inscribed by the author to previous owner in very good condition that has reading crease on the spine, wrinkling and chipping on some edges, sides, and corners, some smudge and peeling on the front top, previous owner's inscription written on the title page, tanning and light shelf wear. Star Trak, Book 29. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. author signed fine (new) 1st trade printing paperback first US trade edition/new & unused; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, not book club, price on rear cover exterior, & has number line down to 1/simple author signature on title page, no inscription/N SHELF fiction trade paperback Language: eng. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by Cherie Priest on the title page. ; 8.10 X 5.40 X 1.20 inches; 400 pages; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed inscription from author on bookplate pasted on endpage. The cover shows some edgewear. Signed by Author(s).

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Signed and inscribed by author. Near fine. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Second Printing. 6.5 X 2 X 9.5 inches; 1007 pages; maps. B&W photographs. Signed dedication from author on the title page. Few minor speckle stains on the top exterior edge of textblock. Minor creasing on the top corner of a few pages. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Jon Foster, dj art. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book in pictorial wraps has light wear to the extremities. ($14.99) 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line. Signed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Very Good. Signed by author on title page. Signed By Author.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite statement and number line ending in "2" upon copyright page as was Random House's contemporary practice) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xxxii, 1007 pages plus two unpaged sections of b/w plates. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with slight soiling; a few nicks/scuffs at bumped edges; front flap creased at top right corner and retains publisher's printed prices; dj presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark maroon cloth spine slightly cocked; brown boards. Slight sag to text block as commonly occurs with thick books; light soiling to text block edges. Top corner of pages 805-806 creased from past fold-down. Author's black ink signature "Robert K. Massie" upon the title page; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. 1950 Rhodes Scholar Robert Massie won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for his biography of Russian czar Peter the Great. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.25 pounds (1.9 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Maritime-Shelf#3|CVA-01860} ISBN 0394528336.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1991). Thick 8vo. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by Massie. Light soiling/marking to textblock edges. Slight bumping and wear to edges, forecorenrs, and spine ends of gently rubbed boards. Light bumping, wear, and creasing to edges, forecorners, and spine ends of gently rubbed and faintly marked dust jacket. D.j. covered with removeable plastic covering by previous owner. VG/VG. INSCRIBED.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. signed by author on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. All 1st eds. 4 vols. 60p ea. Photos. National Maritime Museum Series. Pictorial covers. Vol 8 is SIGNED by Lyon. Fine Copies. Signed by Author.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2019). 2019 1st edition. 4to (222 x 282mm). Ppiv,190. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Presentation card signed by the author laid in. "Many people have heard of Percy Wadham and his lures, some even think that he made a few reels, but most people are unaware of the contribution of Percy Scott and his role in the company. How did a brilliant engineer and an outstanding marketer team up, inventing and manufacturing fishing reels and hundreds of other items of fishing tackle? This volume will explain the various reel models along with accurate dating and naming of the reels. Lavishly illustrated with more than a hundred full colour photographs of the reels showing the variations and progression of each model. It will look into the legal battle the two men had with Hardy Brothers and could it uncover the real reason Dingley left Hardy's?" .

1916 Antique Print - WORLD WAR Barbette Dreadnought Inflexible Big Guns (281) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Both Castles of Steel and Dreadnought are stated first editions, with full number lines indicating first printings (Castles of Steel to '1' and Dreadnought to '2', both first printings per Random House's numbering conventions in the 1990s vs 2000s). Castles of Steel is signed by Robert K. Massie at title page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xii, 865pp; xxxi, 1007pp. Both volumes present nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jackets. Mild shelfwear to dust jackets, with gentle bumping to head of spines. Bound in paper over boards, with Castles of Steel's spine backed in paper and Dreadnought's in cloth, both lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear to bindings, with bumping to head and tail of spines and to some corners. Bindings are firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable pair of first editions by Robert K. Massie, both exploring Britain, Germany, and the Great War, including a first edition of Dreadnought and a signed first edition of Castles of Steel. ABOUT THESE BOOKS: In CASTLES OF STEEL, a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal. But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists. For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughtsgigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles awaywere ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to "seize the trident" by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire. Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry. Castles of Steel is about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massie's special and widely hailed literary mastery. In DREADNOUGHT, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tratedy in his powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting. (Publisher).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4th Impression. xxiv, 460pp, with portrait plate frontispiece and further plate illustrations, map. In navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'Arthur Marder with all good wishes to John Dekker, Wadham, 21.v.79'. 8vo. Cloth a little faded, especially on spine, lightly rubbed and discoloured at edges, gently rounded at spine tips. Slightly cocked. Internally, a hint of toning in page margins, else neat, clean and tight throughout. In its original, worn and creased, dust jacket, a little rubbed at edges, a little more markedly at spine tips. Separately printed corrigenda slip loosely laid in. Volume One of Marder's five volume definitive history of the Royal Navy in the years before and during the First World War.

1906 Antique Print - NAVAL Dreadnought War-Vessel South Carolina Turrets (226) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce nautical poem, in a sumptuous straight grain morocco binding with gilt detailing. A signed presentation copy of this scarce first edition, inscribed to a front blank 'Henry and Mary Sadler from the Author, 30th Nov 1813'. This inscription is torn to the head, obscuring a word or two.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A very scarce poem in four parts, this work follows a seaman named 'David Dreadnought' and several companions, including a zealous Christian.In his introduction, Whitchurch explains the poem 'owes its existence to a pulpit anecdote which I heard related soon after I had quitted the naval service, and not long after the termination of the former American war'.The central character of the second part, named John Marrant, was an African-American missionary whose tale 'was narrated by himself [.] in or about the year 1785' to Whitchurch.With the inscription 'To A. Ballantine, found this book in Union Street, Bristol, March 1832' to a front blank.With the former owner's label of J. O. Edwards to the front pastedown.A signed copy of this very scarce, and fascinating, work of verse poetry. In a straight grain morocco binding, with gilt detailing to back strip and board perimeters. Light rubbing to joint heads and tails, otherwise externally excellent. Owner's label to front pastedown. Former owner's inscription to one front blank, with author's inscription to another front blank, partially torn away to the head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, with significant spotting to frontispiece and title page. Pages otherwise clean. Very Good. signed by author. book.

The coloured postcards show the following vessels : HMS Dreadnought Making a Record -:- HMS Dreadnought 'On Guard' in the North Sea -:- HMS Superb at Anchor -:- HMS Bellerophon on Gun Trial -:- HMS Invincible Coming Into Harbour -:- HMS Indomitable Home AGain. The photographs and cards are mounted onto thick card, all the photographs are fronted by a glassine title leaf, the text is on art paper, all bound within a full calf gilt case, all edges gilt, the binding with silk end-papers, signed by EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE. The leaves are now coming loose from the binding, the spine is wearing at the ends, despite which both joints are intact, the front board carries the gilt Royal coat of arms, the rear board has the gilt Admiralty device. *This clearly a special production for a high functionary probably naval - an ink inscription on the verso of the front free end-paper reads 'B.J. Dec.1940'; an erased pencil signature can just be read - W. R. YEADELL ? However, the style of binding and printing is considerably earlier than 1940; all of the named ships were completed in 1906-1907 and the appearance is of a work pre-WWI.

A revealing letter between the future wartime Prime Ministers, organizing their opposition to building more dreadnoughts at the expense of social reform. Churchill was President of the Board of Trade, Lloyd George Chancellor of the Exchequer. The pair were leading the Liberal government's programme of welfare expansion and social reform; their political alliance was matched by a close personal friendship. Churchill writes, "This will be a critical year for both of us, & also for the historic party we adorn". Indeed it was - in 1909 Lloyd George introduced the People's Budget, raising taxation on the wealthy to fund the expansion of social provision. The opposition of the House of Lords resulted in Churchill and Lloyd George undertaking a major campaign to reform the upper chamber. Marked "secret", the letter concerns Churchill and Lloyd George's opposition to First Lord of the Admiralty Reginald McKenna's proposal to increase dreadnought production from four to six battleships. Lloyd George and Churchill instead prioritized funding social reform over naval expansion, and the Cabinet was deeply divided. Churchill plans their tactics. "I fully expected that we should have to face a counterstroke from the Admiralty, & that McKenna would present his ultimatum backed by his entire board". He writes, "I wonder about what the Cabinet will say when the dreadnoughts' artillery is trained upon them!". What is unclear is the stance of Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary: "I will see if I can induce him to make the inquiries you suggest. I am not very confident however as if the PM throws in his lot with McKenna all Grey's information will be used to sustain & not impair the case for a large programme. I feel no assurance that he is friendly". In the end, Lloyd George and Churchill lost the battle. Grey sided with McKenna. The dispute spilled into a public naval scare which ultimately resulted in eight dreadnoughts. In the rest of the letter, Churchill says that he is hard at work, that he is preparing for his upcoming speeches which would set out their reform programme, that Hudson Kearley has accepted the Port of London chairmanship, that Jack Tennant will succeed him as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade ("the arrangement is not without advantages"), and that "I send you some literature in the shape of some Railway papers and a shorter Catechism on Unemployment Insurance". He finishes, "Your idea of having a special autumn session for Insurance is now a little fortified by the fact that the S. African Constitution Bill will be ready for us then. this will be a feather in our caps. It is going to be a fine piece of work". The letter appears to be unpublished. The only reference to the letter we could identify was a partial quotation in Robert Lloyd George's David & Winston (2005, p. 50). Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine, and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections; purchased by him at the sale of David Lloyd George's letters from Churchill at Sotheby's, 11 July 1986, lot 324. 2 bifolia on Board of Trade stationery (page size 202 x 128 mm), handwritten on five sides in black ink. Somewhat soiled and stained: in good condition.