Coal Scuttle Brigade by Mckee Alexander (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Tiny crease to cover, otherwise in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. H/B 223 pages condition is Very good, the DJ is in poor condition with tears and small sections missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with light toning. Poor DJ with loss and heavy creasing.

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 223 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.

1st in imprint, paperback, 252pp, [iv] ads., #S557, pictorial upper wrapper by Roy Carnon, the collier convoys and their escorts who kept Britain supplied using the swept channel around the coast from the North East to the South Coast of England, under almost constant attack by air, sea and, in the Channel, by long range coastal guns, containing the complete seventeen chapters of the original hardback, slight slant to light creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

abridged edition, paperback, 125pp, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), the collier convoys and their escorts who kept Britain supplied using the swept channel around the coast from the North East to the South Coast of England, under almost constant attack by air, sea and, in the Channel, by long range coastal guns, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, small ink mark half title, ISBN:0450013545 very good plus,

Condition: Fair. 1957. No edition remarks. 223 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Paper covered boards. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are mildly tanned. Mild cracking to gutters and front hinge. Pen scribbles to endpapers. Extensive pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Stamping present. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Moderate water stains to boards.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 252 pages. cover worn. Text tanned.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

1st edn., 223pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, during WW2 Britain's power economy was based on coal to produce electricity and for domestic heating. Great tonnages of coal had to be transported to southern England to keep Britain supplied. Collier convoys and their escorts used the swept channel around the coast, from the North East to the South Coast of England, under almost constant attack by air and sea. In the Channel soon after May 1940 an extra hazard was the long range coastal guns based in France used to shell the convoys, ills. include HMS Brilliant, unnamed trawler, convoys, MTB 48, air-sea rescue launch 130, coastal gun 'Winnie', etc., edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed with slight loss at extrems., several short edge tears, all repaired to reverse, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

Paperback. first edition. 557 very good - fine, reading crease paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth boards- no dust jacket. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. the story of the British coal-carrying ships which had to pass through the English Channel under near-constant German attack.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover in good condition. 125 pages.