The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty. Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates and 12 diagrams (6 of Jutland) in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; navy cloth, upper board clocked in gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.275; NMM II/1, 279.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46240
- Title
- The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty. Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton,
- Date Published
- [1951]
- Keywords
- naval, royal navy, ww1, wwi, great war, beatty, jutland, jellicoe, battlecruisers, w.s. chalmers
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