Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1965. Paperback. 36 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback booklet. Providing some of the historical background of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard & a brief description of submarine design, development & construction from World War I to the 1960s. Filled w/ b&w photos. Faint shelfwear to covers. Pgs.....
Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1963. Paperback. 36 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback booklet. Providing some of the historical background of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard & a brief description of submarine design, development & construction from World War I to the 1960s. Filled w/ b&w photos. Faint shelfwear & edge-sunning to.....
New York City: La France. Pamphlet. 12mo. 20 pp. Light soil to cover edges. Otherwise in great condition. "An Address by James Hazen Hyde upon the occasion of the conferring upon him of the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the university of Rennes, France, with an article regarding.....
London: A.D. Innes and Co., 1895. Cloth. 340 pp. 8vo. Wear including rubbing, bumping to spine ends and coners and sunning to spine. Spine and corners soiled. Faint foxing to endpapers, tissue and title page yellowed. With 5 folding maps.
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1980. Paperback. 687 pp., 4to. Plastic spiral-bound 4to paperback w/ clear covers. This volume containing a transcript of eleven taped interviews. Very light scuffing to covers & spine. Some faint soiling to textblock edges. Textblock clean & crisp.
Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2010. Paperback. 176 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Filled w/ b&w photos of smiling people, boats & even some smiling people standing on boats. Very light scuffing & shelfwear to covers & spine. Faint soilinf to textblock edges. Po pen name & date to title pg, otherwise pgs.....
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Paperback. 229 pp., lg 8vo. Paperback. Slight bumping & scuffing to covers. Slight edgewear to spine ends & covers. Slight soiling & edgewear to textblock edges; remainder mark to top edge. Pgs clean & crisp.
Quantico: US Marine Corps Studies and Analysis Division, 1995. Paperback. 419 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Very sl. wear to edges. In excellent condition.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Rand McNally, 1975. Hardcover. 126 pp. Folio. Hardcover in dj. Scuffing and edgewear to dj, bumping to sp. ends and corners, several sm. tears and one larger tear (approx 2") to edges, some tears repaired w/ scotch tape to underside. Edgewear to book. Faint browning.....
New York: Knight & Brown. Cloth. 4to. 552 pp. Completely rebound. Light soiling and rubbing to covers. Some light tearing to frontis, some of which have been taped over. Light soiling to title page and tiny tears to some of the first few pages. Includes illustration and photographs. Very crisp.....
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 292 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. W/ engraved 1959 invitation from General Dynamics Corp. to po for launching of Scorpian, parking pass to said event & program, magazine article & publisher's slip laid in. Light shelfwear to spine.....
Indanapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1938. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 338 pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn. Paste-action, foxing, and browning to end pages. Browned fore-edge. Pages nice and clean, binding tight. Frontispiece titled 'Dug in, Along an Argonne Hillside'. "To get and tell the full truth, we.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. Cloth. 185 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Illustrated w/ b&w photos & maps. Slight edgewear to boards. Some sunning, cocking, shaking & wear to spine but binding sturdy. Some light soiling to pds & eps & sm po pen name & date to title pg, otherwise pgs.....
New York: George F. Jowett, 1943. Paperback. 48 pp., 16mo. Stapled paperback. "What would you do if you were confronted by a viciously attacking thug?" This booklet is full of suggestions! Some light soiling & edgewear to covers. Binding tight. Some very light soiling to textblock edges & scattered to.....
Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire: Caron Publications, 1986. Cloth. 96 pp, 4to (short). Cloth in dj. Minor shelfwear to spine ends of book and dj, else fine. Clean and tight. B&w and some color illustrations. "A remarkable true story by a Victorian soldier-author who went to defend the 'jewel in the crown.'"
Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum Press, 1986. Cloth Hardcover. 4to. 183 pp. Spine ends are lightly bumped. Book is in otherwise excellent condition. Crisp and clean pages, tight binding. Black and white photographs throughout.
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Hardcover. 368 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth hardcover in dj. Examining the careers of 20 of Churchill's top generals. Illustrated w/ b&w photos. Boards & spine fine. Binding tight. Textblock clean, practically crisp. Dj fine; price clipped to front flap.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 475 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. W/ 24 pgs of photos, 2 endpaper maps & 15 maps in text. Slight cocking & shelfwear to spine. Faint scuffing & shelfwear to dj. Sm po pen name & date to title.....
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. Second Printing. Hardcover. 224 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Second printing. The story of submarines from the man's first attempts to manufacture underwater craft to the most modern vessels (as of 1953). Illustrated w/ b&w photos. Light sunning, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very.....
New York: Macmillan, 1971. First edition. Cloth Hardcover. 4to. 174 pp. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, typical ex-library stamps and stickers to endpages, dj taped to cover. Edited by David Thorne and George Butler. Illustrated throughout.
New York: Collier Books, 1971. First edition. Paperback. 4to. 174 pp. Spine ends and corners are rubbed and bumped, creasing to spine, light rubbing to cover. Edited by David Thorne and George Butler. Illustrated throughout.
New York: Random House, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 192 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Universally inscribed by author "To grumps." A coming-of-age story in the conflict that defined a generation: the Vietnam War. Light shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Textblock clean & crisp. Very light scuffing.....
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Hardcover. 247 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Classics of Naval Literature series. Silk ribbon bookmark attached. Binding very sturdy. Sm po pen signature to title pg, otherwise textblock clean & crisp. Filled w/ b&w photos.
Wellinborough: Patrick Stephens, 1985. Hardcover. 124 pp. 4to. Hardcover in dj. Edgewear and lt scuffing to dj, bumping to sp. head and upper corners. Bumping to book sp. head and upper corners, lt wear to lower edges. With sketches by Oswald Brett. Foreword by Frank O. Braynard. Afterword by Walter.....
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1996. Hard Cover. 4to. 156 pp. Bottom front corner bumped. Wear to edges of dj.
