Jutland: An Eye-Witness Account of a Great Battle by Legg, Stuart - 1967

The John Day Co., 1967. 1st US . Cloth. Fair/Fair. Larger, sturdy book, black cloth, spine badly rubbed, lightly browned inside covers and adjacent end papers, 152 heavy lightly browned pages. Small light brown stain near page 55 bottom tip, several light stains on bottom of page 54. DJ glossy with black and pink bckground on front and spine, a ship and white explosion in water on front and spine, white back very slightly browned overall with excerpts. DJ hcreased down front, micronicks and microtears along top front edge, 1/4" wide tears at top back tip, very slight surface wear to front bookfold edge in places, tiny but wide tears with spine wear at spine edges. Book includes many maps showing ships' location during battle. Near Good DJ/Good book.

John Day, 1967. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to price-clipped jacket..

NY, John Day, 1st US ed, 1967, hardcover, solid black cloth, no previous owner marks, 6-1/2""x8-1/2"", 152 pages, good crisp attractive dust jacket. Ill. with diagrams. mxx

compiled & edited by Stuart Legg. NY, John Day, 1967, stated 1st US edition, good to very good, solid black cloth, about good dust jacket, no previous owner name or marks, 152pp, 6-1/2""x8-1/2""

Rupert Hart-Davis VG/GOOD+ not price-clipped. some rubbing and tattiness to dj top edges. no inscriptions. generally clean copy internally save for some foxing/blotching to title page and edges of textblock. part of a naval historian's reference library - not a "coffee-table" book. richly detailed.

New York: The John Day Co., 1967. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: John Day Company, 1967. 152pp incl appendix. Full black cloth; slightly edge worn, else near fine. Contents fine. Line diagrams in text showing various battle positions throughout. Pictorial dj; slightly edge worn, spine sl faded, rear panel lightly soiled, price clipped, else good. The story of the Battle of Jutland told by the officers and sailors on both sides. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY: The John Day Company, 1967. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 152 pages. Some discoloration inside front and rear boards. DJ is price clipped. Includes Foreword, Details of Ships, Squadrons and Flotillas, and Sources. Topics covered include the fleets at Jutland, Background to the Battle, The Battle (from the evening of 30 May to the night of 31 May), and The Reckoning. Also includes details of ships, squadrons, and flotillas, and Sources. Stuart Legg, a professional film editor, has applied his experience with visual materials to produce a vivid and authentic literary narrative. The book is embellished with a large number of schematic maps showing the strategy an action of the British and German Fleets as they developed step by step. The battle of Jutland served Germany well by showing her that the surface "dreadnought" was soon to give way to the submarine; for the British, the battle was the first disturbing hint of… Read More

John Day, 1967. , 1967. 152p. Fleet diagrams. Price cliped. In mylar. Fine/Very Good Copy. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York: The John Day Company, 1967. An eye-witness account of a great battle. Pp. 152, sketch maps, sources; f'cap. 8vo; black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, slightly worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges worn, with splits and chips at head and tail of backstrip, which is faded; The John Day Company, New York, 1967. First U.S. edition..