Reeve John Eds (9 results)

Hardcover with dustjacket, 276 pages, as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 363pp with b/w photos and illustrations - blue cloth - previous owner's inscription to first blank page - SIGNATURE OF EDITOR DAVID STEVENS TO TITLE PAGE - minor wear to edges of dustwrapper - Strategy History and the Rise of Australian Naval Power. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. 8vo. softcover. 438pp. index, b/w illus. Very good.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo xxvi + 438pp., b/w plates, notes, index, Collection of 18 essays: Inc. The RN in the Pacific: sea power and Imperial endeavour by Geoffrey Till. The search for a strategic sea-base and the founding of Australia, by Tom Frame. The long triangulation: naval hydrography and the Great Barrier Reef, by Colin Jones.…

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo xx + 363pp., b/w plates, notes, index, Contains 17 essays that examine the role that humans have played in the naval conflicts of the late 19th- 20th century. Essays include Western Advisors and Chinese sailors in the Sino-Japanese War; the Commander in Crisis: Graf Spee and the German East Asian Cruiser Squadron in 1914; the treatment of casualties from the Sydney-Emden action; discussion of the role of the aircraft carrier; Gordon Johnson's experience about HMAS Hobart in the Java Sea area in 1942; the WWII diaries of Commander AFC Layard; and Guy Griffiths' personal experiences of HMS Repulse and HMAS Shropshire and during WWII, HMAS Sydney and HMAS Anzac during the Korean War and HMAS Hobart during the Vietnam War.…

Hardback, 14.5x21.5cm, 438pp. Good condition (light wear; owner's penned name and stamp at half-title) in good dustwrapper (light edge wear and creases). ISBN: 1741142008.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG+ Light edgewear, faint creasing to spine, light soiling to foredge, otherwise a very attractive copy, very clean throughout. Cover art by Mark Reeve.

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xx + 363pp., b/w plates, notes, index, collection of essays examines the influences of the rise of Australian naval power and discuss international and strategic issues at the time of publication in the light of history. It covers two major themes: concepts and approached to maritime strategy and perspectives on Imperial and Australian naval defence.…

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xx + 363pp., b/w plates, notes, index, collection of essays examines the influences of the rise of Australian naval power and discuss international and strategic issues at the time of publication in the light of history. It covers two major themes: concepts and approached to maritime strategy and perspectives on Imperial and Australian naval defence.…