The Tobruk Rescue
Sutton, UK: Severn House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. World War II novel in the North African Desert.
Adventure
Patch Of Hell
London: Robert Hale, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A clean, bright and solid copy of this World War II novel. We follow three English brothers in the days after the Normandy landing on D-Day as they struggle to stay alive in the bocage. Cover art by Dave Griffiths. The jacket is bright and complete.
Black River
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2015). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. Adventure novel featuring a team of explorers and treasure hunters seeking ancient Incan fortune in the jungles of Peru. What could possibly go wrong?
The Wild Sports of Southern Africa
Camden: Briar Patch Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy in all respects. Unopened and unread. Bound in full brown leather, lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Illustrated in color with plates and one map.
The Fox from his Lair
London: Hutchinson, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A novel of the D-Day invasion during World War II. Price-clipped dust jacket, else fine. Wrap-around cover art by Brian Dennington. Illustrated map endpapers. In original black boards, lettered in gilt. A very nice copy indeed.
Getaway
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very early Harris title. Lovely cover art by Rudland. Just a hint of edgewear to the jacket at the top of the spine. The jacket is price-clipped. A small family sails the Pacific from Australia attempting to reach America.
Live Free or Die
London: Hutchinson, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of this title. Wrap-around cover art by Steven Crisp. A novel of the liberation of Paris during World War II.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very nice copy in a jacket that has some minor creasing and smalll chips and a very small hole on the spine. Sounds much worse than it is. Lovely cover art by Ley Kenyon. A very early John Harris title. Tells the story of the Air/Sea.....
Take or Destroy. A novel of Alamein
London: Hutchinson, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Bound in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine with illustrated map endpapers. Very nice wrap-arojund cover art by Chris Mayger. World War II action.
The Thirty Days' War
London: Century, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. World War II Aviation novel. Wrap-around cover art by Terry Hadler. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine.
The Unforgiving Wind
London: Hutchinson, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Classic Polar Adventure novel. Lovely and compelling wrap-around cover art by Biro. A very nice copy in all respects.
Gemini Force 1; Black Horizon
London: Gollancz, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. From a special limited edition of 500 copies, this one being number 243. This copy bound entirely in black with lettering and design in gilt. Now housed in a special slip-case also lettered and designed in gilt. Signed by the author on the limitation page...
Gemini Force 1; Black Horizon
London: Gollancz, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. From a special limited edition of 500 copies, this one being number 33. This copy bound entirely in black with lettering and design in gilt. Now housed in a special slip-case also lettered and designed in gilt. Signed by the author on the limitation page...
Burton And Speke
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Some minor soiling to the white edges of the rear panel, else fine. A novel of African Adventure.
Jehol City Of Emperors
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner &Company, 1932. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original pale canary cloth on boards. The complete dust jacket has archival paper tape to the folds of the verso. Translated from the original Swedish by E. G. Nash. With 63 photographic plates. 4to. Jehol is the ancient name for the Summer Palace of.....
Gambler's Chance
New York: Books INC, 1944. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this title. The dust jacket is very bright and complete. Previous owner signature on the front paste-down.
Raw Gold
New York: Center Press, 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine / near fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. The jacket is particularly bright and fine. Previous owner signature on front paste-down.
The Yukon Kid
New York: Triangle Books, 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of this reprint edition. Pages evenly browned. Lovely bright cover art. Previous owner signature on front paste-down.
The Dangerous Years
New York: Atheneum, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / FIne. A clean, bright and solid copy of this novel of naval action just after World War I.
The Lion at Sea
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Pseudonym of John Harris and his first book under this name. Wrap-around cover art by Ian Robertson. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. Quite scarce in this fine condition. World War I naval action.
San Juan Hill
New York: Random House, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Some minor rubbing to the spine ends, else fine.
The Far Reaches
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2007). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects. World War II action in the Pacific, the U.S. assault on Tarawa.
The English Flotilla
London: Macdonald, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. World War II naval landing craft action, focusing on the Normany Invasion on D-Day. Lovely wrap-around cover art by Biro. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine.
Young Bond: Silverfin
London: Puffin, 2011. First Limited Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. As new. The first title in the Higson Young Bond series. This edition does not cut corners. The rich blue and silver cover glows in the dark. It is signed and limited and housed in an engraved Perspex slip-case. It is then nestled safely in a sturdy box. Limited to 1000.....
Blue Water
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1929). First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt at the spine. Issue from The Travellers' Library. The jacket is good with some odd mottling throughout looking to be a brief spritz of water but not damaging the integrity of the paper at all...