Book Journeys
   Rare, Used and Out-of-Print Books
   Adventure, Travel, Nautical & Scholarly
   Stony Brook, N.Y. 11790, U.S.A.
   Tel: 631-751-6089. Fax: 314-228-2332

   Home | Catalogs | Ordering Information | Contact Us

Navy & Naval Affairs: Authors G - O

Navy: Authors A - F | Navy: Authors P - Z

Gibson, Walter. The Boat. Illustrated by John Groth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. 1st U.S. edition. 101 pages. Illustrations. Good cloth-covered hardcover binding in poor dust jacket. #13069. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Gill, C. C. Naval Power in The War, 1914-1918. Foreword by Allan Westcott. New York: George H. Doran, 1919. xiv, 302 pages. Diagrams. Maps. Illustrations. Good hardcover. Frontispiece map torn along fold. #19317. $12.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Green, Fitzhugh. Our Naval Heritage. New York: Century, 1925. 459 pages. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13340. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Gretton, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter. Crisis Convoy: The Story of the HX231. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974. 182 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0870219251. #17057. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Hezlet, Arthur. Aircraft and Sea Power. New York: Stein and Day, 1970. 1st edition. 370 pages. Diagrams. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps. The influence of aircraft on sea power since the turn of the century, and probable future developments. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0812813081. #14213. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Holmes, W. J. Double-Edged Secrets: United States Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979. Large 8vo. 231 pages. Portraits. Maps. Endpaper maps. Good hardcover in Good dust jacket. ISBN 0870211625. #13334. $12.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Hythe, Viscount, editor. The Naval Annual 1913. New York: Arco, 1970. 520 pages. Illustrations. Plans. Reprint of Portsmouth: The Hard, 1913. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0688022671. #13325. $20
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Ireland, Bernard. Sea Power 2000. London: Arms and Armour, 1990. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 160 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. An analysis of the changing technology and status of modern warships. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Former owner's name sticker on upper right-hand corner of blank front flyleaf. ISBN 0853689792. #22446. $12.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Kenworthy, J. M., and George Young. Freedom of The Seas. New York: Liveright, 1928? Large 8vo. 283 pages. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, pages slightly foxed. #13290. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

King, Cecil. Rule Britannia. London: Studio, 1941. 280 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Fair. #13331. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Knox, Dudley W. Register of Officer Personnel United States Navy and Marine Corps and Ships' Data, 1801-1807. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945. iv, 86 pages. 20 sheets of plans of ship hulls, masting and deck drawings in rear pocket. Published under the direction of James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy. Maroon buckram with gilt spine title. Very good. #17316. $92.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

MacIntyre, Donald, Capt. Fighting Ships and Seamen. London: Evans, 1963. 1st edition. 192 pages. Photographs. British naval exploits of world wars I and II. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, some pages slightly soiled. #14596. $15
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

MacIntyre, Donald, Capt. Jutland. New York: Norton, 1958. 1st edition. 282 pages. Maps. Photographs. Endpaper maps. The two greatest fleets of dreadnoughts fight in the North Sea's Jutland or Skaggerak, June, 1916. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #14597. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

McKie, Ronald. The Survivors. Drawings by Frank Norton. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. 246 pages. Illustrations. The story of the fight of the cruisers Perth and Houston and how ten men survived in the Sunda Strait. Fair hardcover copy in poor dust jacket. #12121. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Merrill, James M. The Rebel Shore: The Story of Union Sea Power in The Civil War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957. 1st edition. 246 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper maps. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #10980. $22.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Miller, Max. Always The Mediterranean. Foreword by Capt. Walter Karig. New York: Dutton, 1952. 1st edition. 256 pages. Endpaper maps. On an assignment with the Sixth Fleet, the author has become acquainted with the ancient body of water which for centuries was known as 'The Sea' and which the articulate Romans dubbed 'The center of the world.' Written against the borad expanse of the entire Mediteranean, from the Dardanelles and Bosporus to Gibraltar, from the Moroccan coast to Trieste and the French Riviera. - From front and rear dust jacket panels. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #13052. $12.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. A complete set of 16 volumes consisting of 15 numbered volumes, plus one additional unnumbered volume. Volumes. I: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943. II: Operations in North African Waters, October 1941-June 1943. III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942. IV: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942. V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943. VI: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, July 22, 1942-May 1, 1944. VII: Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944. VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944. IX: Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June 1944. X: The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945. XI: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945. XII: Leyte, June 1944-January 1945. XIII: The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944-1945. XIV: Victory in the Pacific, 1945. XV: Supplement and General Index. No number: Strategy & Compromise. Introduction in Volume I by Commodore Dudley W. Knox, 'The United States Navy between World Wars'. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. Reprinted. 16 volumes. Each of the 15 numbered volumes includes an Index, Illustrations, Photographs, Maps and Folding Maps. Appendices. The 15 numbered volumes were originally published between 1947 and 1962. This 1982 reprint may be a book club edition. 'Strategy & Compromise,' published in 1956, is a first edition. Very good hardcover books. No dust jackets. #25520. $250
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Neeser, Robert W. A Landsman's Log. Introduction by Rear. Adm. Charles J. Badger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913. 1st printing. 199 pages. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, some stains on front cover. #13048. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Nelson, Curtis L. Hunters in the Shallows: A History of the PT Boat. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1998. 1st printing. x, 242 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. An examination of the development and role of the small torpedo boat in U.S. naval history. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1574881671. #25488. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Navy: Authors A - F | Navy: Authors P - Z
Aviation & Space Flight

Top | Home | Catalogs | Ordering Information | Contact Us
Copyright ©2008 Book Journeys

Typos, linguistic challenges and alternate spellings:
Navel