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Albrecht, Gerhard, compiler.
Weyers Flottentaschenbuch / Weyer's Warships of the World. 57
Jahrgang 1984/85; 57th Edition 1984/85.
Drawings by S. Breyer, E. Groner, E. Kaiser, F. Mrva, K. D. Schack. Annapolis,
Maryland: Nautical + Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1983.
Small 8vo. xxiv,
730, [1] pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations.
Very good hardcover. ISBN 0933852436. #21405. $35
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Andrews, Phillip, and Leonard Engel.
Navy Yearbook.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. Oblong 4to (medium-large book). 376
pages. Photographs.
Good hardcover. #10086. $10
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Arnold-Forster, D., Rear-Adm.
The Ways of The Navy.
London: Ward, Lock, 1931. 1st edition.
Small 8vo. 288 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #12505. $35
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Barnett, Correlli.
Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second
World War.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Reprinted, with corrections. xviii, 1052
pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. First published in 1991.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0340339012. #26115.
$25
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Bird, Keith W.
Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich.
Foreword by James C. Bradford. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press,
2006. 1st printing. xxvi, 282 pages. Index. Bibliographical references.
Photographs. Library of Naval Biography.
Very good hardcover in very dust jacket. ISBN 1557500479. #26113.
$17.50
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Brady, Cyrus T.
Under Topsl's and Tents.
New York: Scribner's, 1901. 1st edition. 272 pages. Photographs. Top edge gilt.
Decorated cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #10429. $35
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Brown, John M.
To All Hands: An Amphibious Adventure.
New York: Whittlesey House, 1943. 1st printing. Large 8vo. 236 pages. Photographs.
Inscribed and signed by Brown.
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #10497. $27.50
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Capron, Walter.
The U.S. Coast Guard.
Preface by Admiral E. J. Roland. New York: Franklin Watts, 1965. 2d printing.
218 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. The Watts Seapower Library.
Very good hardcover in chipped, worn and torn dust jacket. Pencil and ballpoint
underlining and marginalia. Former owner's name inside front cover. #17347.
$10
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Couhat, Jean Labayle, editor.
Combat Fleets of The World 1978/79: Their Ships, Aircraft, and
Armament.
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1978. Oblong 4to (large book). 650 pages, Addenda.
Photographs. Diagrams.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding in dust jacket. Very Good in Good dust jacket.
ISBN 0870211218. #16102. $20
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Couhat, Jean Labayle, editor.
Combat Fleets of The World 1982/83: Their Ships, Aircraft, and
Armament.
English language edition prepared by A. D. Baker III. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval
Institute Press, 1982. Oblong 4to (large book). 873 pages, Addenda. Photographs. Diagrams.
Synthetic cloth-covered hardcover binding in dust jacket. Bookplate removed
from inside front cover, else very good. Dust jacket very good.
ISBN 0870211250. #16101. $22.50
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Cooper, J. Fenimore (James Fenimore).
History of The Navy of the United States of America.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. 2d edition, with corrections. 2 volumes. (xii,
438, 417 pages.) Frontispiece in each volume: Map. Index to both volumes in volume
2. Howes, U.S.iana, C748.
Green cloth. Gilt spine title and anchor device on lower spine. Top of
backstrip of v. 1 slightly split along hinge, covers and corners slightly worn.
Volume 2 edges and corners slightly worn. Foxing throughout both volumes.
Internally sound. Good set. #20867. $275
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Cox, Ormond L., and Miles A. Libbey.
Naval Turbines.
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1924. Large 8vo. 241 pages. Diagrams.
Illustrations. Folding charts.
Buckram. Good, covers slightly soiled and worn. #10817. $40
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Cummings, Damon E., Capt.
Admiral Richard Wainwright and The United States Fleet.
Foreword by Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest M.
Eller. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962. xviii, 266 pages.
Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #10862. $17.50
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Dixon, W. MacNeile.
The British Navy at War.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. 1st printing. 12mo (small book). 95 pages.
Photographs. Folding maps.
Good cloth-covered hardcover. "With the Compliments of Professor W. MacNeile
Dixon..." slip laid in. #17278. $15
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Doubleday, Russell.
A Gunner Aboard The "Yankee": From The Diary of Number Five of
The After Port Gun. The Yarn of The Cruise and Fights of The Naval Reserves in
the Spanish American War.
Edited by H. H. Lewis. Introduction by W. T. Sampson. New York: Doubleday &
McClure, 1898. 312 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Author's first book. Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good.
#12524. $60
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Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt.
The Naval War in The West: The Wolf Packs.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1963. 1st printing. Square 8vo. 60 pages. Illustrations.
Photographs. Maps. Military History of World War II, 5.
Very good hardcover in ins slightly worn dust jacket. #20526. $7.50
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Ellis, Harold W., editor.
The Smithsonian Collection of Warship Plans.
Foreword by Harold D. Langley. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American
History, Naval History Section, Division of Armed Forces History, 1991. 5th
revised edition. Oblong 4to (large book). vii, 76 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs. Illustrations. Produced by the Naval Section, Division of Armed
Forces History. NMAH/ARMl29-3/91.
A catalog of Warship plans, ordnance drawings, and ship model photographs. Very
good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover) with plastic comb binding. #26130.
$20
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Falk, Edwin A.
Fighting Bob Evans.
New York: Cape & Smith, 1931. 1st edition. 495 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, inscription on flyleaf. #13834. $17.50
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Falk, Stanley L.
Seventy Days to Singapore.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. 1st American edition. 301 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Maps. Photographs.
The Second World War story of the fall of Singapore in 1942, the British
Empire's last and greatest fortress. The book draws on Japanese, British and
American sources and archives. By the Chief Historian of the U.S. Air Force.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0399115560. #13835.
$12.50
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Fetridge, William H., editor.
The Navy Reader.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. 1st edition. 4to (large book). 443 pages. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, covers soiled. #13872. $12.50
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