Secret Capture by Captain Roskill (5 results)

Condition: Good. 1959. 2nd Impression. 156 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Tape to edges. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 156pp with b/w photos - blue cloth - endpapers and content edges slightly foxed - previous owner's name to preliminary page - dustwrapper is slightly rubbed and soiled - moderate wear and chipping to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1959 1st edition, 8vo., plates, endpaper maps, some foxing on endpapers and edges, unclipped dust jacket, worn on edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 156pp, index, illustd, orig cloth, vg tight copy in dustwrapper which is bit edge rubbed and aged and has bit repaired to middle of spine area but a very near complete wrapper in a clear removable protector.

8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8, diagram and 5 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Roskill's account of the capture of submarines, principally that of U-110 captured intact during Convoy OB318. Suppressed during the war, the story appears here for the first time. TTHE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.430; Law, 0261.…