Introduction Barry Bingham (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good to fine with very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are lightly bumped at spine tips. Dust jacket is lightly sunned on spine and around edges. 264 pages with index and 436 illustrations. Tall 4to size.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 155, (5) pages. 19.5 cm. Navy blue cloth with red lettering to front board and to spine. Frontispiece (b/w photo of H.M.S. "Nestor"). 5 pages of ads "Books on the Navy" by John Murray at end. Illustrated with 5 out-of-text plates (b/w photographs and colored folding plans). "Commander The Hon. Barry Bingham's story of the Battle of Jutland where his Ship NESTOR was sunk. Bingham and survivors were rescued by German destroyer S.16 and made prisoners of war. He spent 23 months in Germany, and it was while there he gave lectures which form the basis of this narrative". An unmarked, clean and tight book.…

Third printing (as stated upon copyright page; originally published October 1971). 264 pages. Hardcover: H 32.25cm x L 27cm. Tan dust jacket with light toning and soiling; small brown stain at front panel's upper left; light bumping to edges; verso tape repair to short tear at spine head. Slate gray cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine and front board. Slight foxing to text block's top edge. A few leaves have slight rippling at their top margins but are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Features reproductions of "Some 450 [b/w] maps, posters, engravings, sketches, paintings and photographs" (as cited on the dj's front flap) from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries which are accompanied by descriptive captions. With Preface by editor Samuel W. Thomas, Acknowledgements, Introduction by Barry Bingham, Sr., Notes and Credits, and Index. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.75 pounds (2.15 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Third Printing, August 1975. Brown cloth with bright gilt lettering. 264pp; extensive Notes and Credits; Index; b/w engravings, maps, photographs. Contents clean, tight, unmarked. No ownership or library marking; no writing. DJ with some external light soiling or discoloration. Pictorial endpapers. Some 450 maps, posters, engravings, sketches, paintings and photographs are interplayed with descriptions "to enjoy a most enjoyable ride through the corridors of time.". …