British Cruisers of World War II by Roberts, John, Raven, Alan

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 1980. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Square 4to., 444 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear only, text is unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Naval Institute Press, 1980. Hardback. Very Good. VERY GOOD on very good dust jacket. Clean in text with no marks. Binding is solid for such a large book. Small stains on front edge which do not penetrate into pages. . . . . . . . Presents the full story of the design & construction of British Cruisers that served in WWII. . . . . This authoritative and superbly-illustrated book presents a de?tailed account of the design, construction, and technical history of the cruisers that served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. In all, 121 cruisers are described and illustrated in this book with over 400 carefully selected photographs and over 60 sets of detailed plans. To provide the correct historical framework for the subject, the authors go back as far as the Arethusa class of 1912, and follow the story through the interwar years, dominated by the Washington Treaty, and the Second World War to the last of the conventional all-gun cruisers, the Tiger class of the late 1950s. 19801444 pages1400… Read More

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A: Naval Institute Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10" x 10. VERY GOOD / DUST JACKET GOOD. 444 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Pages edges slightly toned. Illustrated throughout with photographs in b/w. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt at spine, minor shlefwear only. Dust jacket lightly toned, top edges sunned and lightly rubbed, tiny closed tear at op of spine, intact, unclipped. Textblock intact and stable.

Annapolis: Naval Inst.. very nice copy; larger-format . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1980.

Naval Institute, 1987., 1987. Later ed. 444p. Photos. Line drawings. Oversize. As New/As New copy. Hardcover. As New/As New. Book.

Naval Institute, 1980., 1980. 1st ed. 444p. Photos. Line drawings. Very Oversize. In mylar. Fine/Fine copy. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Naval Institute, 1980., 1980. 1st ed. 444p. Photos. Line drawings. Oversize. As New/As New copy. First Edition. Hardback. As New/As New. Book.