Naval Adventure from TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS

LONDON: HUTCHINSON. Naval adventure novel in the Hornblower style. Set in 1772. Ex-library copy. Clear plastic cover over the dust jacket. Moderate wear/peeling on DJ edges. Tear on back flap. Moderate staining/marking affecting text on front flap(text is clearly visible). Library stickers on DJ spine. Not price clipped. NB: Front free endpaper(ship illustration) has been removed. Damage to side edge… Read more about this item

LONDON: MERMAID BOOKS/MICHAEL JOSEPH. First published in 1943, this is the first Mermaid Books edition(1952). Lamaniated flexible boards. Small area of damage/bending on bottom of board spine. Moderate slant to board spine. Original printed price on front pastedown. Previous owner date of purchase(1953) on front pastedown. No other inscriptions. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Novel. A World War 2 set… Read more about this item

LONDON: WORLD BOOKS/THE REPRINT SOCIETY. An Horatio Hornblower novel. First published in 1950. First publication of this Reprint Society book club edition. Paper dust jacket(wrapper). Front of DJ is black with Zodiac symbols in the centre. Back is white with previews of forthcoming books: Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean, Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie, Bricks and Flowers by Katherine Everett,… Read more about this item

LONDON: PENGUIN BOOKS. Paperback. Slight wear and peeling on cover edges. A small split on the bottom edge of the front cover/exterior spine. Tanned pages. Small fold on one page. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions, First Penguin printing. First published by Michael Joseph in 1946. Location: CONE3 . Good. Mass Market Paperback. First Penguin Edition. 1964.

LONDON: HUTCHINSON. First printing. Maritime adventure novel featuring series hero Richard Bolitho. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. Pen stroke mark on DJ spine. Not price clipped. Blue boards. Top edges of book's pages are foxed. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Illustrated map endpapers. This book comes with a Richard Bolitho card bookmark detailing… Read more about this item

LONDON: MICHAEL JOESPH. Hardcover. An adventure of Captain Horatio Hornblower. First published in 1945. This is the first publication in this edition. Orange cloth boards. Slight wear on board edges. Slight foxing on book pages. Otherwise clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Book has lost its dust jacket. Corner folds/creases on the bottom edges of a few pages. Location:… Read more about this item

LONDON: HEINEMANN. A Richard Bolitho adventure. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. Not price clipped. Brown boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. First printing. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1999.

LONDON: HEINEMANN. A Richard Bolitho adventure. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. Slight marking on DJ. Not price clipped. Black boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. 3rd printing. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2007.

LONDON: Michael Joseph(Mermaid Books Imprint). First published in 1950. This is the second Mermaid Books printing. Illustrated laminated card covers(A cross between a hard cover and a paperback. Sometimes called a limpback). Slight wear/peeling on cover edges. Original price is printed on the pastedown(on the reverse of the front cover). Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. A Horatio Hornblower… Read more about this item

LONDON: Michael Joseph(Mermaid Books Imprint). First published in 1945. This is the first Mermaid Books printing. Illustrated laminated card covers(A cross between a hard cover and a paperback. Sometimes called a limpback). Slight wear/peeling on cover edges. The laminate on the inside back cover edge is beginning to peel. Original price is printed on the pastedown(on the reverse of the… Read more about this item

LONDON: HODDER & STOUGHTON. Hard cover with dust jacket. First printing. Dust Jacket has not been price clipped. Slight wear on DJ edges. Blue boards. Slight marking on some page edges Otherwise clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Fourth novel in the Thomas Kydd series. It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on the Achilles, a… Read more about this item

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD. First printing. Naval adventure. The Iron Pirate is set in 1944. Dieter Hechler captain of the heavyweight cruiser Prinz Luitpold, is a successful battle commander of a 'lucky' ship. But when he is ordered to leave the Baltic sea and head out into the Atlantic, he knows that he and his crew will need all their… Read more about this item

LONDON & GLASGOW: BLACKIE AND SON LTD. Naval adventure. Undated. First published in 1936. Dust jacket with small splits/surface wear on top edge and DJ spine edges. Three black and white plate illustrations(including frontispiece). Blue cloth boards with black titles and three bar black lines around edges of front board and exterior board spine. Book is possibly ex-library as the… Read more about this item

LONDON: BCA. 2 novel omnibus. Naval adventures. The Iron Pirate is set in 1944. Dieter Hechler captain of the heavyweight cruiser Prinz Luitpold, is a successful battle commander of a 'lucky' ship. But when he is ordered to leave the Baltic sea and head out into the Atlantic, he knows that he and his crew will need all their skill… Read more about this item