Keyes Admiral Fleet Sir Roger (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Second Edition. (1942) 302 pp. Original dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed. Covers a bit bowed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-down and title page. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and light chipping to edges. Approx. 2 3/4" closed tear at top edge of front panel w/ few short tears to rear panel edges. Illust. w/ fold-out maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Complete with numerous illustrations, maps, and plans. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. autobiography, Keyes was a junior officer in the East Indies squadron and took part in the Witu punitive expedition in 1890; Binding: Orig. navy blue cloth; Condition notes: foxing to eps, slight fading to spine, O/W V. Good; Illustrations: 34 B/W photos; Maps: 6; Pages: 373; Edition/printing: repr.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. The memoirs of Churchill's close colleague, the Royal Navy's Admiral of the Fleet, published just as Churchill was about to return as First Lord of the Admiralty. This is a very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket; virtually mint, save for some edge-chipping and closed tears on the front face. The contents are fine. Rare thus. 8vo (373 pages, illustrated with photo frontis, 7 plans & maps, 23 leaves of plates.) (Cohen B65.1).

A scarce item: no copies on WorldCat or JISC, nor at the Caird Library, National Martime Museum (though the latter does have a signed print of one of the illustrations). Twenty-six broadsheet pages, on news stock paper, in shiny paper covers printed in red, blue and brown. Filled with illustrations and topical advertisements for everything from corsetry to bicycles, from a full-page one on the inside front cover for 'Brickwoods Jubilee Brew / 4d. per Small Bottle in Public Bars', to one on the back cover reading 'On Review / United Ales & Stout Are Supreme'. First article is 'Britain's Dependence On Sea Power / A Review Foreword / By / Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Bart., / G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., LL.D., M.P. for Portsmouth North, and a former Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.' Among many other articles are 'Warship Design in our Sailor King's Reign / Dreadnought Types - Good Looking and Ungainly Ships - Greater Armament Efficiency' by Frank C. Bowen, and the poem 'Semper Fidelis' by Evelyn H. Healey. Central 'Admiralty Plan of Ships at Spithead'.

First Edition. Account of the famous First World War battle. Originally published in 1934 under the title The Naval Memoirs of the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Roger Keyes. With a new introduction by the author, outlining the lesson which could be applied in WW2. With folding maps and illustrations. First thus. VG in slightly edgeworn dustjacket. Scarce in jacket.