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Published by Hutchinson and Co, 1111
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. General wear to boards with part of a sticker to the front. Hinges are a bit cracked. Content mainly clean with even toning. No DJ.
Published by Coward-McCann, 1932
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Book is in good condition but lacks a dust jacket. Spine and boards edges are faded and board edges have some minor foxing. Vague tanning of end papers. Pages are clean. Previous owner's bookplate is pasted down on front free end paper. First edition. World War I Historical Novel Hardcover First Edition.
Published by Hutchinson and Co, 1111
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, marks. Content has light toning with some foxing to prelims. No DJ. Circa 1920's. Previous owner signature in ffep.
Published by Coward-McCann, 1932,, 1932
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 278pp, illustrated, owner's stamp on endpaper, pages browned, text otherwise clean and sound, green cloth, spine faded, Good / no dustwrapper.
Published by hutchinson, london
Seller: Peter Sexton, Arlington, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. 8vo, illustd,288pp, original green cloth, just a hint of very minor fading, binding vg clean and sound, owners name and 1933 date to front end paper, contents vg clean and sound, a vg volume , undated but late 20's or early 30's. Book.
Published by Hutchinson London (1933), 1933
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2nd imp. orig. cloth Nice Copy octavo 288pp., frontis., b/w plates, bibliog., index, Account of the scuttling of the German Navy at Scapa Flow in order to prevent them falling into the hands of German Bolshevists. Lovely copy in bright emerald green boards.
Published by Coward - McCann, New York, 1932
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Coward - McCann, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Langhorne Gibson. No dust jacket. - however the flaps have been preserved and pasted on the front endpapers. Cover has mild shelfwear, bottom corner rubbed, spine ends slightly softened. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Beautiful condition. Signed by Author.
Published by Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1932
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ present. x, 278 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear. Inscribed by the author on fep. Inscription reads To H. O. Wells, Sincerely Yours Langhorne Gibson Dec 1932. Langhorne Gibson was a writer and son of the artist Charles Dana Gibson. Mr. Gibson, who was an avid sailor and racer, wrote two books on naval battles of World War I, ''Death of a Fleet,'' published in 1932, and ''The Riddle of Jutland,'' published in 1934. He also worked in magazine advertising and in 1928 became a vice president of Life Magazine. Mr. Gibson served as a Navy seaman in World War I and as a lieutenant commander in charge of the Naval Intelligence Office in Richmond in World War II. He was born July 30, 1899, in Hempstead, L.I. He graduated in 1922 from Yale University, where he was captain of the varsity crew team. Born Herbert Paul Schubert in 1899, Schubert was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Connecticut, graduating with the Class of 1920 on June 6, 1919. In 1939, Schubert embarked upon a career as a radio news analyst for the Mutual Broadcasting System's WOR Radio in New York. Working for WOR during the war, as well as occasional work for the BBC and the Office of War Information, Schubert broadcast on naval and military issues throughout World War II. Schubert wrote articles for Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's, and Cosmopolitan, as well as a newspaper column in the Washington Post. Schubert was also author of the books The Electric Word: The Rise of Radio, Come On, Texas, Death of a Fleet, and Sea Power in Conflict. This work was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. The book was the first account of its kind in English, It addresses the Imperial German Kriegsmarine discontent. War-weary stokers fomented between-decks sedition in the German navy and lea a mutiny which blazed into a nationwide revolution. From the first mutinites of 1917, for which two sailors faced a firing squad, to the great drama of 1919 when the water of Scapa Flow flowed through the open sea cocks as fifth ships of the fleet were scuttled. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.