A Book for all Reasons
 Taffrail (Captain Taprell Dorling RN) SWEPT CHANNELS , Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1938,3rd imp., 388pp, half tone photo frontis, 11 half tone plates, line drawings and diagrams in text, light blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine and upper board, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive study of mines and minesweeping in WW1, the pre-war inclusion of much of the domestic fishing fleet into the reserve, the expansion of the Minesweeping Service at the outbreak of war, the vast North Sea minefields and the continual sweeping of the war channel, the losses, the exhaustion and the humour of the crews, lihtly bumped at tips, cloth rubbed at extrems., edges tanned and a little foxed, upper edge dusty, dustwrapper: spine sunned, rubbed with loss at extrems, several nicks to edges, repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper, (Book ref. 40312) £36.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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