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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. A true first edition, first printing (first impression) a very good plus copy in a near fine jacket . Signed and inscribed by Philip Lecane to author Roy Stokes, also a signed and inscribed card by the author laid in. Scrape to inside of both boards, else fine. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. 100 Line Drawings & 31 Photographs (illustrator). Reprint.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, 120pp, b&w photos. Light wear to card edges; a near fine copy. HMS Cumberland was laid down when Great Britain truly ruled the waves, by the time she decommissioned in 1959, Britannia's rule over the oceans had almost gone. Her story in many ways mirrors the changing fortunes of the Royal Navy from the time of Empire through the savagery of World War Two and into the nuclear era.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 11½'' x 8½''. This book brings to life the stories of the 121 submarines that lie entombed on the seabed of the English Channel. Most of them got there as the result of war and peacetime accidents. The first was lost in 1774; the last was the tragic accident that befell HMS Affray in 1951, the last British submarine to have been lost at sea. Contains 183 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout, one 10 pp colour plate section. Title page excised, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. SUBMARINES.