Send Victorious by Michael Apps (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1971. First Edition. 270 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1971. Book Club Edition. 270 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and plates. Clean pages, plates and illustrations 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. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has even toning. Good DJ with some tears.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 270pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners and bright spine titles, complete jacket with worn edges and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No ownership names. The dustwrapperhas some wear to extremeties and sunning to spine lettering.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. original cloth hardcover,illustrated,270 pages,page edges spotted otherwise very good in chipped good only unclipped dustwrapper.We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B113.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable. Ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme, she was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and launched two years later in 1939. Her commissioning was delayed until 1941 due to the greater need for escort vessels for service in the Battle of the Atlantic. Her service in 1941 and 1942 included famous actions against the battleship Bismarck, several Arctic convoys, and Operation Pedestal. She was loaned to the United States Navy in 1943 and served in the south west Pacific as part of the Third Fleet. In 1944 Victorious contributed to several attacks on the Tirpitz. The elimination of the German naval threat allowed her redeployment first to the Eastern Fleet at Colombo and then to the Pacific for the final actions of the war against Japan. After the war, her service was broken by periods in reserve and, between 1950 and 1958, the most complete reconstruction of any Royal Navy carrier. This involved the construction of new superstructure above the hangar deck level, a new angled flight deck, new boilers and the fitting of Type 984 radar and data links and heavy shipboard computers, able to track 50 targets and assess their priority for interrogation and interception. The reduction of Britain's naval commitment in 1967, the end of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, and a fire while under refit, prompted her final withdrawal from service, three to five years early, and she was scrapped in 1969. Ref JJJ 1.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is lightly sunned to the spine but still in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The proud history of the aircraft carriers of the royal Navy has reached a turning point with the 1970's, and is perhaps coming to an end. Their achievements in the Second World War - and in the busy years following the war - will stand both as an important exercise in sea warfare and grand strategy, as well as the basic argument for the retention of the carrier into the future. The unique importance of the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious is that she was laid down before the war, fought in a wide variety of theatres throughout it, and was modernised after it to such good effect that she was only finally taken out of commission in 1968. Her story therefore reflects the history of the Fleet Air Arm right through the most important period of its development, from the early days when the Navy was still suspicious of airborne warfare, into the age of guided missiles and nuclear deterrents. Victorious served in home waters, played an important part in the struggle to relieve Malta, sailed on the notorious Russian convoys to Murmansk, joined the British Pacific Fleet for the final defeat of Japan, where she survived repeated attempts to sink her by Kamikaze or suicide planes, and played her part in many post war emergencies, including Malaya and Kuwait, giving her battle experience in the new era of modern warfare. Ref U 5.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Account of the famous aircraft carrier and her career. pp270. Illus. DW has chips; now in archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Book Club Edition. First Military Book Society Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 270pp. B/w photographs and maps throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light rubbing to top corner of ffep. (45/5).