The Watery Maze, the Story of Combined Operations by Fergusson, Bernard - 1961

Collins, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 445 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Cracking to gutters, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Plates are bright and clear. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.

Collins, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1961. No edition remarks. 445 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy foxing. Mild water staining to panels.

London: Collins, 1961 cloth lightly rubbed to edges, top corner bumped, prize plate to fep (Naval Board Prize RNZNVR) tipped on along top edge so could be removed, 445pp + plates, map endpapers, DW unclipped with edge wear , some chipping and short edge tears, small area lifted from cover in the arch between the h in The at top of cover, The Combined naval and army landings in France North Africa and the Mediterranean, which saw the beginning of the end of the second World War, also some South East Asian actions, and the Port Said raid of 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1961. Dust jacket clean, corners slightly bumped and chipped, small chip to head of spine, closed tear to head of rear cover 1cm, light spotting to head of closed text block, front and rear boards very clean, in excellent condition, some foxing to fep/rep, pp clean and bright, binding secure.. (first edition). Hard. Good Plus/Good. 8vo.

Collins,, 1961. 8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 12, 11 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps coloured in outline, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. The best single-volume history to date and a standard reference, covering operations from formation to Port Said in 1956. Enser, p.110; Law, 0456.

London: Collins, 1961. First English Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. A study of the development of Combined British & American Operations from Britain’s eviction from the continent in 1940 through their landing at Normandy. A good copy in chipped and faded dust jacket , spine and corners slightly bumped, map end papers slightly discolored (445 pages, 21 illustrations, 11 maps, select bibliography, index).