Search Results: Titles starting with M from Island Books

C. Arthur Pearson,, [1966]. 8vo., Third Edition, with numerous illustrations and tables in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1960.

Bodley Head,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, and 4 illustrations and 5 maps (one double-page) in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard reference. Enser, p.76

Concord, [Hong Kong],, [1994]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

[Profile Publications, Windsor],, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [AFV Weapons Profile 52].

[Profile Publications, Windsor],, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [AFV Weapons Profile 32].

MCC, 1987. 8vo., First Edition with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

Dalton Watson,, [1989]. 4to., First Edition, with title in red and very numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

[Motor Racing Publications,, 1980]. Oblong 4to., Third Impression, with very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1978

Crowood Press, [Ramsbury], [2002]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.

Becknell Books, Norwich & King's Lynn,, [1980]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and drawings in the text original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Valuable collection of photographs of Britain's largest joint railway. Ottley, 12381.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and charts in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, pp.48, 129, 206.

Bloomsbury,, [2010]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper charts; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

[Privately Printed, Norwell MA],, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

[Privately Printed],, [1997]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout; navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. A much-needed addition to the scandously under-written record of the Royal Naval Patrol Service in WWII. Comprised partly of MMS (Motor Magnetic Minesweepers) the RNPS [affectionately known as 'Harry Tate's Navy'] worked tirelessly throughout the conflict in virtually every theatre. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDTION.

W. Nicholson,, n.d. [c.1890]. 8vo., wanting rear free endpaper; cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, bevelled edges, page edges very lightly browning else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 7pp publisher's catalogue (unopened) bound in at end. First published in the US in 1857.

Heinemann,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and endpaper maps; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter neatly repaired at headband. The UK edition is far scarcer than its American counterpart. Enser, p.252.

Heinemann,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Phoebus/BPC, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Purnell's History of the Second World War, Special.

Allen & Unwin,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper, fore-edge lightly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Macmillan,, 1988-89. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, wanting front free endpapers; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1894-1956; Vol. II: 1957-1986.