Second Hand British Navy Naval History Battles 5 Vintage Military Book Bundle RUSI Copy
Royal Navy, naval mutinies and decisive land-sea-air battles
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Condition
Mixed acceptable-to-good vintage condition.
All five books show age-related wear, including rubbing, creasing, fading, page tanning, spotting and wear around the cover and dust-jacket edges.
The Nation and the Navy is a former Royal United Service Institution copy. It contains a publisher’s presentation bookplate dated April 1954, an institutional disposal stamp and remnants of adhesive or tape on the endpaper. It has no dust jacket, and its blue cloth boards show rubbing, marks and edge wear.
The older Pelican paperbacks have tanned pages, rubbed covers, creasing and worn edges. Decisive Battles of the 20th Century has rubbing, creasing and edge wear to its illustrated dust jacket.
The books have not been individually graded or collated page by page. Please examine all photographs carefully, as they form an important part of the condition description.
Details
General - Language : English
Paperback - Size : TBC
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A collection of five vintage military-history books covering the development of the Royal Navy, British sailors, eighteenth-century naval mutinies and major land, sea and air battles of the twentieth century.
The bundle includes:
• The History of the British Navy — Michael Lewis
• The British Seaman — Christopher Lloyd
• The Floating Republic — Bonamy Dobrée and G. E. Manwaring
• The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and Policy — Christopher Lloyd
• Decisive Battles of the 20th Century: Land–Sea–Air — edited by Noble Frankland and Christopher Dowling
The Nation and the Navy is a 1954 Cresset Press hardback containing a publisher’s presentation bookplate to the Royal United Service Institution. It also bears an institutional disposal stamp and associated library marks.
The collection covers British naval development, the lives and working conditions of seamen, the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, naval policy and a selection of important twentieth-century battles.
A useful reading and reference collection for anyone interested in the Royal Navy, naval history, maritime warfare and general military history.
The books are offered together as one complete bundle only. Individual books will not be sold separately.
Please read the condition comments and examine all photographs before purchasing.
Bundle reference: B09B.
