Click for full-size.
The Navy's Here : The Altmark Affair
by Frischauer, Willi & Jackson, Robert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly foxed, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but with pieces missing to front, rear and spine. 255pp. The story of the Altmark, the secret supply ship of the Nazi pocket battleship the Graf Spee and the many British ships sunk by the Graf Spee. Eventually the Graf Spee was cornered - the Battle of the River Plate - and the Altmark, now alone, was instructed to return home - packed with British prisoners. She eventually reached neutral Norwegian waters from where 300 British prisoners were rescued.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027797
- Title
- The Navy's Here : The Altmark Affair
- Author
- Frischauer, Willi & Jackson, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
- Keywords
- Military, Second World War, Sea War, Graf Spee
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military; History; Transport - water;
Terms of Sale
Godley Books
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Guaranteed next day delivery is also available in the UK. Please contact us directly to ask about this service. Royal Mail is our standard delivery company. Shipping costs are based on packaged books weighing 750 Grams. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Overseas shipping can be by Airmail or Surface, so we may contact you for extra shipping if your overseas book order is too heavy for either of these services at the standard rate. You are welcome to ask us about direct postage costs. Return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Godley Books
Biblio member since 2009
Hyde, Cheshire
About Godley Books
We have been selling mainly non-fiction books for over 20 years and now have a very varied stock of around 10,000 books. As not all are yet online, please ask us for your search items as we may have the book you are seeking waiting to be catalogued. Our delivery company Royal Mail has twice increased overseas prices during 2020, in particular to the USA, so our shipping rates have been amended to reflect this.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Collecting the Harlem Renaissance
One of the most influential - and certainly most iconic - cultural revolutions in American history, the Harlem Renaissance offers a compelling repertoire for both seasoned and novice book collectors. We’ve put together a beautiful gallery of high points to help start your collection here.
How to identify a rare book
There are several important points to keep in mind when trying to determine if a book can be considered "rare". Read here to learn more.Learn how to determine if a book is rare
