Search Results: yangtse incident the story of hms by earl lawrence

Hardback, no dust jacket, decorative cover spine is yellowed, text clean

George G. Harrap & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

Harrap, 1950. First Edition. fine. fine 1st edition Harrap 1950 edition hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

London: Panther, 1956. Card covers in tidy condition, rubbed at the edges, pages a little browned. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

George G.Harrap & Co, 1980. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text. The dust jacket is complete but with old tape strengthening to the verso which is showing in places & thus good only. Illustrated, 199pp.

London: Harrap, 1952 (500 gram rate) sunned spine, inscription to fep, good, reissue, 160pp + maps. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1952. A lot of tears and creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrappe, with the bottom two inches missing at the spine, also a lot of wear to the folds. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, some fading to gilt titles on spine, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a not too bad, clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with events of April-July 1949 in China when the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst was trapped by Communist troops on the Yangtse for almost three months before managing to escape downriver. Originally published in 1950, this is a slightly later, smaller-format edition from 1952. 160pp, 2 maps.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: George G. Harrap, 1950. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 135mm x 200mm. Clipped jacket has moderate general wear plus some minor chipping to head of spine. No real tears. Foxing to white verso of jacket. Moderate foxing to edges of page--block. Foxing to preliminaries and last few pages plus scattered light foxing to page margins. Former owner's details dated 1951 to ffep and two minor tape marks to each fep. Text and plates clean. Binding tight. 199pp.

Mew York 1951, Knopf. Red cloth, very good, 199p., 25 b.w. photos, 2 maps, library buckram, clean ex-library copy,usual stamps, contents clean. The true story of the attack by the Communist Chinese on the British vessel, the death of 23 English sailors, 31 wounded, the ship was hit some 53 times with heavy guns. The story of the unprovoked incident, and the eventual release of all. .