South Pacific Air War. Volume 3: Coral Sea & Aftermath, May-June 1942
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2019. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2019. More
Each sheet measures approximately 183 × 330 mm, inclusive of a sidebar of Japanese text; two have short edge tears (with slight evidence of earlier attempts at repair); the paper is foxed and a little discoloured; overall in very good condition. More
London, Edward Stanford, 1903 ('10.IX.03'). An attractive and detailed map of Japan, issued on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War. More
[Tokyo, Fuji Shogo, early 1950s]. Text in Japanese. Not least, the innumerable illustrations, many colour illustrations, with others from Official US Navy and US Marine Corps sources. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. A unique copy of this account of the raising of the ship's bell from the HMAS 'Perth', sunk on 28 February 1942. Not only is it inscribed and signed by the author (twice), but it also contains the signatures of 22 survivors of the sinking, gathered at..... More
Fallbrook, Aero Publishers, 1969. Aero Pictorials 2. More
[Washington], Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy, 1947. Complete with the large colour folding map. More
Surrey Hills, The Author, 1986. Signed (and dated: 1986) by the author; one of 2000 copies. Publication details slip loosely inserted.'Being the true story of an enlisted man in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1942 to 1946. The every day life of its airmen, the air war in Darwin..... More
Mechanicsburg, Stackpole Books, 2004. With some related ephemera loosely inserted. More
Botley, Osprey, 2003. Osprey Combat Aircraft Number 39. More
Cassville, The Author, 2007. More
Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1985. Loosely inserted is an autographed letter (dated 10 July 1996) to aviation historian David Vincent from Allan G. LeBaron (see page 247); not least of which relates to Chief Bannowsky, 'the Naval Aviation Pilot mentioned on page 34. Did you know that on one flight..... More
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975. '... the first extensive analysis of the intricacies of petroleum diplomacy in the prewar Far East'. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2012 (second edition)/ 2000. This edition has been lightly edited and has two pages of notes. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2018. More
London, Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1956. More
Maps of the four main islands of Japan and the Korean Peninsula are surrounded by borders of cherry blossom and bamboo, with scenes of Mt Fuji, a pagoda, and birds on the wing. Major cities are shown on the maps; Korea has Pyongyang, Seoul and Pusan, with '38° LINE' in..... More
London, Methuen, 1906. When Emperor Meiji died in 1912, Japan had gone from being an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyos, to a great power which had undergone political, social, and industrial revolution. The author travelled throughout Japan and met the influential men who..... More
Darwin, Avonmore Books, 2016. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2017. More
Canberra, Department of Information, 1943 and 1944. The Australian Army at War series. More
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1992. More
The material ranges from standard fare (iconic structures, picturesque landscapes, exotic costumes) to most interesting and unusual street-level documentary images. These large-format prints (84 are approximately 205 × 270 mm each, three are a little larger, and two are panoramas measuring 120 × 300 mm) have never been mounted, and..... More
Tokyo, Oxford University Press, 1968 (corrected edition)/ 1950 (second revised edition). Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. More
Kyoto, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2011 (first English language edition). Nichibunken Monograph Series Number 12. More