Crabb Brian James (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. large 8vo, illustd, 160pp, orig laminated boards, top of text block bit of modest foxing, a vg tight little used copy.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 238 p : ill, maps, ports ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Kenya (Ship). World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent reference. 160pp., ills., extensive appendices, index. vgc, illustrated boards, no dw as published. 0.0.

Glazed Boards. Condition: VG. 1st. Detailed account of the sinking of this British Troopship by a Japanese submarine in 1944 with thge loss of nealry 1300 lives. 160pp, illustrated. VG copy in glazed boards.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 238 p : ill, maps, ports ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Kenya (Ship). World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good unmarked condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book tells the untold story of the loss of the troopship S.S. Khedive Ismail in Convoy KR8 in February 1944 No less than 1,297 people lost their lives in the space of the two minutes it took to sink the ship. The book includes several appendices, including the names of the entire ships compliment, and includes a generous fifty-three illustrations. The grey illustrated boards are good, but there is a small chip to the head of the spine and light wear to the corners. The page block is also good and square.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. The Sinking of the S.S. Khedive Ismail In the Sea War Against Japan. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. SIGNED by author to title page. Light bumping to spine. A few small indentation marks to covers. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. SIGNED - please see description for details.…

Shaun Tyas Donnington 2006. Laminated boards, photographs, appendices, 310pp. A very good copy. Includes a personal letter from the publisher. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; laminated boards, a near fine copy. Loosely inserted is a small quantity of typewritten correspondence between a previous owner and the author concerning research for the book. The first account of the loss of the SS KHEDIVE ISMAIL - the third worst Allied shipping disaster of WWII. Over 1200 people lost their lives when the troopship was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-27 in the Indian Ocean. SCARCE.…