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Paperback. Very Good.

Jarrolds, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 143 pages. Blue dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces.

London, England: Arrow Books, 1973. Square book, no markings, like new condition. Naval History. The escorts and the merchant ships had no illusions: the first attack had been beaten off, but most of the crews were veterans of the Battle of the Atlantic and the Gibraltar run. They knew that these submarines would attack again and again from every angle, from ahead, from each side and from astern...and they did. As did the bombers, and the German surface ships, even when the attacks ceased for awhile, the Arctic seas alone were enough to test any man to his limits.. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Historical Fiction.

jarrolds 1960 VG/GOOD. DJ has seen better days. 2 very large vertical splits extending 1/3 of depth of the front cover., sunned to spine, and generally tatty appearance. dj is not price-clipped, boards beneath are clean and bright. no inscriptions or marginalia. lovely clean copy.. part of a naval historian's reference library - not a "coffee-table" book. richly detailed. an account of the horrors of arctic convoys during world war 2.

Jarrolds, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 143 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to half-title page. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Dent to front board edge. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light sunning to spine. Wear marks overall.

(London), Jarrolds, (1960).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. 144; map endpapers, numerous b/w illustrations, index; original cloth, rubbed and faded dustjacket, price clipped, ink on half-title page, a good copy.

London: Arrow Books. Very Good. 1973. Paperback. 0099069504 . 191 pp. 8 pp photos. Edgewear. Spine creased. The terrible story of the arctic convoys of world war two. .

Lon.: Jarrolds. nice copy; study of the arctic convoys during WWII . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1961.

Jarrolds, 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Good/Good. ex-library copy with stickers, stamps and inscriptions. usage marks. all pages remain legible. jacket has a few tears. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Arrow Books 1973. Plates loose, paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

arrow books. paperback octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Arrow 1973. Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

Jarrolds, London, 1960,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 144pp, illustrated, map endpapers, edges browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Fair dustwrapper; wrapper edges rubbed and fraying, spine faded, price-clipped .

London: Jarrolds, 1960. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 144 pages. 380g. Black cloth boards Near FINE with contents tight and clean, in a POOR only repaired, sunned, chipped and worn d/w with some loss to top edge, in clear removable wrap. Illustrated with b/w plates. The story of the arctic convoys to Murmansk in the 2nd World War..

Jarrolds London 1960. First edition 144pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners, spine head lightly bumped) in good d/w (rubbed, edgewear, corners sl chipped, sunned spine w. sl scuffed head and foot)

London England: Jarrolds, 1960. Hardback. First Edition. The Gates of Hell. Slight foxing to edge. Brown cloth with red lettering. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape. The German's failure entirely to stop the convoys led ultimately to Hitler having one of his celebrated brainstorms; and the German pocket-battleships and heavy cruisers (which had been a constant threat throughout) were relegated to the status of floating barracks, or were decommissioned. To tell the complete story of the Arctic convoys would require several volumes. Each convoy in itself was an epic in the truest sense of the world, an epic both glorious and tragic. Within self imposed limites I have tried in the following pages to paint a picture on a wide canvas. I have limned in the first tentative sailings across the roof of the world, and then the later sailings when the convoys had, quite literally, to be fought through fire and blood - to the end when they sailed almost arrogantly, dragging their… Read More

Jarrolds, London, Melbourne, 1960. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. Edgewear to jacket. First Edition. Murmansk convoys. 143 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. #161021 World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, British. | Naval convoys. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Arctic regions. | Destroyer escorts. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near Fine. Edgewear to jacket

Jarrolds,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 12 and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red and white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-regarded account of the Arctic Convoys, particularly PQ17, PQ18 and JW51B. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.32; Law, 0499.

mass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.