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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Naval Intelligence Division, 1944. Hard Cover no jacket gilt titles to green/yellow cloth xiv 595 pages with many b/w plates, Figures and foldin maps, discolouring/rubbing to boards, dusting to extreme page edges has age odour but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request. lacks map of Italy which was in pocket in rear. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good (ex-library). First Edition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xii + 313pp. One volume of the 2-volume set. Binding firm, spine slightly faded. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges browned, foxed and marked. Internal hole and wear to rear end paper. Ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, some removed. Covers marked. Illustrated, with fold-out maps. Three loose fold-out maps present in pouch to rear pastedown of vol. 1. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Algeria; 1940s; Military & Warfare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 66610.…

Condición: Fair. (n.p.) Naval Intelligence Division, 1943. Volume 1. 8vo Hardcover. 436pp. B/W figures and maps in rear pocket. Fair book and no dust jacket. Former Library book with usual markings. Spine sunned. (france, colonies, french colonies, africa, west, west africa ) Inquire if you need further information.…

Condición: Fair. (n.p.) Naval Intelligence Division, 1943. Volume 1. 8vo Hardcover. 436pp. B/W figures and maps in rear pocket. Fair book and no dust jacket. Former Library book with usual markings. Spine sunned. Stamped on front free endpaper and title page. Library bookplate on last endpage and circulation label on spine removed. (france, colonies, french colonies, africa, west, west africa ) Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. Italy, Volume II, August 1944 (B.R. 517A (Restricted) Geographical Handbook Series). Hardcover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, no dust jacket, in good condition. Originally issued in 1942, this edition reissued in 1944. Includes fold out maps. Boards and spine are marked and sunned. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block is tanned, blemished and foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. Italy, Volume I, February 1944 (B.R. 517 Geographical Handbook Series). Hardcover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, no dust jacket, in good condition. Originally issued in 1942, this edition reissued in 1944. Includes fold out maps and map in rear pocket. Boards and spine are marked and sunned. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block is tanned, blemished and foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Condición: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Vol. 3. only. Original cloth slightly edge worn, spine slightly faded, otherwise very good indeed. Clean contents with unused folding map in rear pocket. No dust jacket. Geographical Handbook Series.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; B.R. 439A (Restricted) Graphical Handbook Series, for official use only. Physical description; volume II: 403 pages. Subjects; Jugoslavia. October 1944. History. Peoples. Administration. Geographical handbook series. Naval Intelligence Division. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; B.R. 439B (Restricted) Graphical Handbook Series, for official use only. Physical description; volume III 566 pages: 403 pages. Jugoslavia. June 1945. History. Peoples. Administration. Geographical handbook series. Naval Intelligence Division. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xii + 436 / xvi + 596pp. 2-volume set (complete). Bindings firm, spines faded and slightly cocked. Previous owner's book-plate laid in and ink signature. Edges foxed and browned. Covers slightly marked. Produced and printed for official purposes during the war 1939/45. Illustrated, with fold-out maps. Two loose fold-out maps present in pouch to rear pastedown of vol. 1. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: History; West Africa; 1940s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 66607. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; B.R. 439B (Restricted) Graphical Handbook Series, for official use only. Physical description; volume III 566 pages: 403 pages. Jugoslavia. June 1945. History. Peoples. Administration. Geographical handbook series. Naval Intelligence Division. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; B.R. 439A (Restricted) Graphical Handbook Series, for official use only. Physical description; volume II: 403 pages. Subjects; Jugoslavia. October 1944. History. Peoples. Administration. Geographical handbook series. Naval Intelligence Division. 1 Kg.…

Hardback. Condición: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 8vo. pp xv, 485; xv, 621; xviii, 682; xix, 638; xix, 659. Original publisher's blue and black faux leather boards, lettered gilt at the spines with top edges gilt. The function of the intelligence handbooks, which were compiled by the British Foreign Office, was to inform British officials engaged on diplomatic duties in foreign countries about every aspect of the country in which they were resident. They provide a full, splendidly illustrated, geographic encyclopaedia of the culture and civilisation of each country, including over 1200 photographs. These books are heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. ISBN: 1852070609 All fine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Original gilt-titled green cloth 16x23cm. Printed under the authority of HMSO at the University Press, Oxford. Dated September 1944 to the title page, with later printed label affixed to its verso stating "This volume was produced and printed for official purposes during the war 1939/45". xviii, 682pp + 236 b/w illustrations (predominantly photos) on glossy paper, 97 text figures and maps of which 11 folding, 1 colour folding map of Iraq Arabia and Persia (bound in), and 1 folding Communications of Iraq map in the back pocket as called for. Ex-University of Bristol Geography Department copy with minimal markings including a small label to the spine tail, smart bookplate, and small stamps to endpapers and title page including "Withdrawn" stamps. Covers otherwise very good, faded to the spine with small tear to spine tail. Interiors mostly near fine with maps neatly folded. One of the folding maps (facing p435) has come loose and is laid in. Prepared by Naval Intelligence Division staff with Forewords by two of its Directors J.H. Godfrey and E.G.N. Rushbrooke. An impressively rich and wide ranging survey, sections cover an Introduction; geology and terrain; a detailed description of the Arabian and Persian coasts; climate, vegetation and fauna; history; people; distribution of people, administration and public life; health; irrigation, agriculture and minor industry; currency, finance, commerce and oil; ports and inland towns; and communications, with appendices and index.…

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback without dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.