Naval, Maritime & Military

London: Kenneth Mason, 1987 Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet (22 April 1772 - 19 August 1853) was a British naval commander of the late 18th through the mid-19th centuries. He held important commands during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and eventually rose to become Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord. Cockburn played a major role in the War of 1812 as second in command to Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren to the end of March 1814 and then to Warren's successor, Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane for the rest of the war. He cruised relentlessly up and down the Chesapeake Bay and other parts of the Atlantic coast in 1813 and 1814, seizing American shipping, disrupting commerce, and raiding the ports. In the Chesapeake, Cockburn was responsible for carrying out government instructions to encourage the emigration of the enslaved Black population. In addition he implemented Cochrane's own plan of recruiting a Corps of Colonial Marines from among the Black refugees. The most important of Cockburn's actions was the capture and burning of Washington on 24 August 1814 as an advisor to Major General Robert Ross. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Panther, 1977. Bawdy songs from WW2.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Bill Tidy. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Panther, 1975. Bawdy songs from WW2.. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Bill Tidy. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Panther, 1982. Bawdy songs from WW2.. Second Printing. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Bill Tidy. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1975 The study of a vanished world. British off-shore lighthouses are no longer manned by teams of keepers. Instead, they are electronically controlled from the shore. Parker writes about the people who used to do this work manually in lonely, dangerous and sometimes frightening conditions. He tells the stories of te keepers and their families - their hopes and fears, their motives for doing the work they did, their feelings about the lighthouse service and the effect the work had on their relationships. He is especially good on the way separation shaped the lives of maried couples who were often parted for months at a time while husbands tended their lights and wives stayed on shore.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Portsmouth: H.M.S. Bulwark Association, 1983 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1977. A study of Spanish maritime expansion to the West Indies and central and south America covering the peiod from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centruy. Part of the History of Human Society Series. Introduction by J.H. Plumb.. Fourth Printing. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1960. For nearly 600 years, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals were the weapons of war. This text provides a world survey of the evolution of incendiary devices using gunpowder, "Greek fire" and saltpetre. "Greek fire", a composition believed to be made from a distilled petroleum fraction and other ingredients (but not saltpetre), was used in the Siege of Constantinople and during the Crusades. The text examines its antecedents - other incendiary devices used in ancient warfare - and looks at European gunpowder recipe books ("The Latin Book of Fire", "Belifortis" and "Feuerwerkbuch"), and at the history of infernal machines, mines, canons, small arms and artillery. The book includes chapters on gunpowder and weapons in Muslim lands, India and China, including fire books, the use of gunpowder as a propellant, the artillery of the Mughal Emperors, and the use of saltpetre in explosives. It traces the development of gunpowder to 11th-century China, and cites the first-known mention and picture of a firearm in 1326. With a foreword by Frederick Morgan.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Navy Records Society, 1968 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss. Some fading to spine and boards.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Peace Pledge Union, 1961 Single sheet printed on both sides.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Peace Pledge Union, 1960 4pp.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Peace Pledge Union, 1960 Opinions about the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and its aftermath. Single sheet, printed both sides.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Peace Pledge Union, 1960 Single sheet, printed both sides.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Peace Pledge Union, 1961 Single sheet printed on both sides.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Peace Pledge Union, 1960 Single sheet, printed both sides.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Benfleet: JD Bernal Peace Library, 1980 First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: HMSO, 1981 An Anglo-Irish British Army soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the first half of the nineteenth century. Commissioned an ensign in the British Army, Arthur Wellesley rose to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of field marshal. The Duke of Wellington has rather a mixed reputation in his home country of Ireland, where he is generally seen as being British instead of being Irish. He was a member of the Ascendancy, the Anglo-Irish, and largely Protestant, aristocracy of Ireland which was generally hated by the Irish Catholic majority.. Second Printing. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1964 First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Elm Tree Books/Hamish Hamilton, 1975 Foreword by Arthur Lowe.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1968. The study of Propaganda has been a life-long interest for H. C. Peterson, who gained his first experience of it while delivering speeches in behalf of war savings stamps in 1917 and 1918. Contains material on the Lusitania, the Election of 1916 and the last year of Neutrality.. Second Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1957 with the co-operation of Commander J.S. Kerans, D.S.O., R.N. On 20 April 1949, HMS Amethyst was on her way from Shanghai to Nanjing (Nanking) on the Yangtze River to replace HMS Consort, which was standing as guard ship for the British Embassy there due to the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communists. At around 08:31, after a burst of small arms fire, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) field gun battery on the north bank of the river fired a salvo of ten shells, which fell well short of the ship, and was assumed to be part of a regular bombardment of Nationalist forces on the south bank. Speed was increased, and large Union flags were unfurled on either side of the ship, after which there was no more firing. This book tells the story of the subsequent events. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Melbourne House, 1978 The story of the Los Alamos atomic explosion and of the men who opened the nuclear age.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957 Contents: The Land of Dixie; The Old Dominion; The Younger Colonies; Redskins and Latins; From the Backwoods to the Bluegrass; The Cotton Belt; Staple Economy; Traffic; The Peculiar Institution; The Costs of Labor; Life in Thraldom; Some Virginia Masters; Southeastern Plantations; Planters of the Southwest; Overseers; Homesteads; The Plain People; and The Gentry.. Fifteenth Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1883 Biography. Some marking to boards and wear to lower spine, some internal foxing.. Second Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1933. The social history of Britain during the last two years of the war. A main theme arises, the drama of the struggle behind the terrible fighting, the struggle waged to arrive at the re-establishment of peace between the perverse will to gain the war at all costs and the growing desire to achieve peace and settlement in a devastated world: this struggle, as here unrolled, is shown to have had an important bearing on the untoward peace finally arrived at, and on the disastrous conditions we still groan under. The month by month records which tell the tale of these momentous years are closely followed. Spine worn and chipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Quartet, 1978 Admiral Sir Dudley North commanded the North Atlantic Station of the Royal Navy early in WW2 after 43 succesful years of service. When the Allies embarked on an attempt to take Dakar which failed miserably following a succession of blunders, he was picked out as a scapegoat for failing to stop the Vichy vessels that caused the catastrophe from entering the Atlantic, despite order to not interfere. This is the story of this dark cover up. An unread copy.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Navy Records Society, 1984 Edited by Jon Tetsuro Sumida. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Navy Records Society, 1963. Some fading to boards. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Emsworth: Redan & Vedette, 1977 An account of the Spithead anchorage and Fortress Portsmouth dealing with invasion, sea power, land power, gunnery, armour, . ballistics, ship construction and the science of fortification both in attack and defence over a thousand years as reflected in generations of effort to protect the anchorage and facilities on which mighty sea power depended. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: HMSO, 1964 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Hamlyn, 1978 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: BPC Publishing, 1974 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by John Batchelor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Phoebus Publishing, 1974 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by John Batchelor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Bison Books, 1982. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Simon Publications, 1942 Public information booklet directed at the military serving abroad.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newcastle: R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., 1946 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newton, Nottinghamshire: Prepared and Printed at R.A.F. Newton, 1973 A induction manual for new recruits to RAF Swinderby in Licolnshire with 62 pages of information covering all aspects of service life. Illustrated with humorous cartoons of Air Force life. RAF Swinderby was a Royal Air Force Bomber Command airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion plans started in the 1930s. It was built near the village of Swinderby, Lincolnshire just off the south east side of the A46 (the Fosse Way) between Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Under the command of Number 1 Group, Swinderby came under the auspices of RAF Bomber Command and housed numbers 300 and 301 squadrons, mainly Polish manned initially flying the Fairey Battle. Later squadrons would use such diverse aircraft as the Handley Page Hampden, the Vickers Wellington, Avro Manchester and finally Avro Lancasters. In 1964, Swinderby changed its role to that of recruit training, responsible for the basic training of all enlisted RAF personnel prior to their trade training. In 1995 the station was put up for sale to commercial development and the airfield plays host to semi-regular events including antique fairs. Many buildings, hangars and the air traffic control tower remain in evidence along with acres of concrete runways and taxiways. Incidently RAF Newton is now a centre for assylum seekers. nd. circa 1973. Front cover loose.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akademy, 1984 An inspired booklet on the Aryan Myth and links between Brahminism and Fascism.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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South Boston: International Seminars on Training for Nonviolent Action, 1980 An anarchist text against militarism and repression.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Michael Joseph, 1983 Includes photographs, bibliography and index.. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: J.S. Virtue & Co. 3 vols. Plates are not present. c.1890-3. A detailed history of the British Navy from the American War of Independence 1773 to the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 and beyond. Some minor marks to boards. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Guinness Publishing, 1993 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Berlin: Reichdruckerei, 1933 Periodical on Marine and Naval aviation. From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss with handwritten note on front wrap. German text. Some wear to front wrap, chip missing from top corner. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: George Philip, 1973 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Sphere, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Ian Allan, 1965 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Ian Allan, 1963 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. Fifth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Ian Allan, 1966 From the library of Naval Historian and author James W. Goss.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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