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London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 32, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 32, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 224, [2] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and wrinkles. In 1930, when she was 11 years old, Mrs. Gugliotta wrote a story about a mouse who later became Mickey! Mrs. Gugliotta married U.S. Navy Ensign Guy F. Gugliotta in 1940. They lived in several cities in the United States and Latin America before retiring to the Peninsula in 1962. She was the author of several books, including Katzimo: Mysterious Mesa; Pigboat 39, about a World War II submarine; and Women of Mexico: The Consecrated and the Commoners, 1519-1900. Bobette Gugliotta was one of the S-39 wives. With the technical assistance of her husband, Guy, an officer who served on three of the S-class boats during the war, she presents an accurate and absorbing account of submarine operations and warfare. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1942. First Edition. First? Printing. 235, illus., part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper, usual library markings. More
Fowlerville, Michigan: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [10], 328, [6] pages. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads "To David R. Wheelwright With kindest regards. John Harllee, November 15, 1990." Scratches on rear cover noted. John Harllee was retired Navy Rear Admiral and former chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. As a Lieutenant, he was stationed at Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked on December 7, 1941. During World War II, he commanded a torpedo boat squadron in the Southwest Pacific that was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. He received the Silver Star and Legion of Merit. From 1947 to 1948, he served in the Navy's Congressional Liaison Unit on special assignment to John F. Kennedy when the future president was a member of Congress. During the Korean War, he served as executive officer aboard the cruiser Manchester, for which he was decorated with the Navy Commendation Medal. He retired from the Navy in 1959 with the rank of Rear Admiral. Admiral Harllee served as chairman of Citizens for Kennedy and Johnson in northern California during the 1960 presidential campaign. Kennedy appointed him to the newly formed Federal Maritime Commission in 1961. He was promoted to chairman of the commission in 1963 and was reappointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. He retired in 1969. He then worked as a maritime consultant until 1974. He traveled to more than 30 countries, including Morocco, Turkey, Russia and China. This is a work of fiction, which refers to historical personages and events, as well as battle conditions in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. More
Fowlerville, Michigan: Wilderness Adventure Books, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [10], 328, [6] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page . Inscription reads "To Jo Ann and Tom Fulcher Sister-in-law and brother-in-law of Jack Fallin, the real life PT boat hero after whom the Fred Richards of this novel is closely patterned. With kindest regards John Harllee, November 16, 1990." This is a work of fiction, which refers to historical personages and events, as well as battle conditions in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. This is the saga of a man who loved a woman and ships and miraculously survived many action-packed adventures in war and peace to attain them. The story ranges from Australia to California. John Harllee was retired Navy Rear Admiral and former chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked on December 7, 1941. During World War II, he commanded a torpedo boat squadron in the Southwest Pacific that was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. He received the Silver Star and Legion of Merit. From 1947 to 1948, he served in the Navy's Congressional Liaison Unit on assignment to John F. Kennedy when the future president was a member of Congress. During the Korean War, he served as executive officer aboard the cruiser Manchester, for which he was decorated with the Navy Commendation Medal. He retired from the Navy in 1959 with the rank of Rear Admiral. Kennedy appointed him to the newly formed Federal Maritime Commission in 1961. He was promoted to chairman of the commission in 1963 and was reappointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. He retired in 1969. More
London: Philanthropic Reform, 1798. Third Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Removed from bound volume. viii, [1], 6-108, [1] pages. Footnotes. Bottom corner of pages 85/6 torn away but text appears complete on page 86 and the loss of a letter or two on page 85, but the meaning can be discerned. Rare U.K. printing. Entire item appears complete, despite pagination discrepancy at the beginning. Spine worn and torn, from removal from a larger volume. Robert Goodloe Harper (January 1765 – January 14, 1825), a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–1795), the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina (1795–1801), and in the Maryland State Senate. He is best remembered for the phrase, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" in connection with the XYZ Affair. At the age of fifteen, Harper joined a volunteer corps of Cavalry and served in the American Revolutionary Army. He made a surveying tour through Kentucky and Tennessee in 1783, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1785. He studied law in Charleston and was admitted to the bar in 1786. From 1790 to 1795, Harper was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, at which time he was elected from South Carolina to the Third Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Rep. Gillon. He was reelected to the Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth Congresses serving from February 9, 1795 to March 1801. He was the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the Fifth & Sixth Congresses. More
London: Odhams Press Limited, 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hard cover. 208 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Foreword by Commander W. L. King. DJ, in a plastic sleeve attached to boards, has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Some page discoloration noted. Slightly cocked. Contents include Introduction; "Report to Fort Blockhouse"; War Declared; First Patrol; The sea and the enemy; We Penetrate Oslo Fjord; Away Boarding Part!;' Mediterranean-bound; I Join Truant; Torpedoes and gun; The Beacon; Five days in Cairo; Across the Western Ocean; Trapped!; Truant heads Eastward Ho!; H.M. Submarine Thrasher; Two V.C.s for Thrasher; You'll never live to spend it!"; Medway's last voyage; Homeward bound; The George Cross Island; Reflections; Back to General Service; The other side of the Picture; and Postscript. This book has also been described as the Wartime Adventures of a Submarine Stoker. Never for a second does the author relax his grip on the imagination as he recalls the cool audacity of surface gun actions against enemy convoys on the high seas; Sydney Hart has written a worthy monument to the British submariner's simple devotion to duty. His book may well rank as a classic of its kind. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 335, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index, very slight creasing to DJ edges. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 247, [1] pages. Appendix. This work has 34 illustrations and 3 maps. DJ has wear, soiling, tears, and chips. DJ is price clipped. Front board weakened and has been reglued. Ernst Hashagen describes in this book his experiences as a submarine commander from 1915 to 1918 in the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The result is an enthralling work on the horrors of war and at the same time the fascination of the then new technology. With the U62 he sank several ships, such as the Ausonia and the Storstad. At the end of the war, he had to hand over his ship in Harwich to the English also this a depressing experience. The book by Hashagen established the long tradition of submarine literature in and after World War II. More
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1994. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. 412, [2] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Index. DJ has small tear at top of rear flap. Contents include: Introduction. History of the War, Weapons and Tactics, The Warring Nations, Biographies, Sources, Miscellanea, and Glossary. Chronology. Philip J. Haythornthwaite FRHistS (born 1951) is an internationally respected and prolific author and historical consultant specializing in the military history, uniforms and equipment. Whilst his main area of research is the Napoleonic Wars, his impressive list of publications covers a much wider range of periods from the English Civil War until WWI. Since 1973 Haythornthwaite has had over 80 books published, plus numerous articles and papers on military history. Much of this output through the publishers Orion Books and Osprey Publishing and Haythornthwaite’s writing has, beyond doubt, helped keep alive a general interest in history. Moreover, his seminal works The Armies of Wellington and Redcoats, The British Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars as well as Picton’s Division at Waterloo are clearly scholarly works of research that show the author to be the equal of more formally credentialed historians. Also notable is the fact that Haythornthwaite has prepared new editions of several well-known Peninsular War memoirs : Life in Napoleon’s Army: the Memoirs of Captain Elzear Blaze In the Peninsula with a French Hussar: Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain. Haythornthwaite is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the British Commission for Military History. More
Chicago, IL: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., [1944]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 338, wraps, footnotes, bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, usual library markings, cocked. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 324, [4] pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper discoloration. Private collector's bookplate inside the front cover and embossed seal on fep. Basil Heatter (1918-2009), the son of radio commentator Gabriel Heatter. He attended schools in Connecticut, then went abroad when was 16 for a two year travel stint through Europe. Returning to America, he went to work for a New York advertising agency. He enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and during WWII served as a skipper on a P.T. boat in the Southwest Pacific. Besides being a news commentator himself, Heatter wrote twenty novels of intrigue and adventure—beginning with The Dim View in 1946, the story of a young PT boat skipper—as well as several non-fiction works revolving around his love of the sea. In fact, he lived for years off Key West on his own self-built sailboat, The Blue Duck. More
Washington, DC: Naval History Div/Navy Dept, 1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 219, wraps, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. On spine: World War II naval administrative histories. More
Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1988. Wraps. 23 cm, 318 pages, wraps. More
Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 477, [3] pages. Includes Illustrations, Foreword, and Preface, as well as chapters on Control of the Sea; The Idea and the Challenge; The Question of Leadership; The Structure of Responsibility; Emerging Patterns of Technical Management; Prototypes and Submarines; Toward a Nuclear Fleet; Nuclear Power Beyond the Navy; Propulsion of the Fleet; Building the Nuclear Fleet; Fleet Operation and Maintenance; and The Measure of Accomplishment. Appendix 1: Table of Organization. Appendix 2: Construction of the Nuclear Navy. Appendix 3: Financial Data. Also includes Abbreviations, Notes, Sources, and Index. Richard Greening Hewlett (February 12, 1923 – September 1, 2015) was an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps doing work related to meteorology. The military sent him to Harvard University to study in the electronics school. In 1952 he became a program analyst in the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), compiling classified progress reports from all of the many branches of the AEC for the Commissioners. Hewlett later said that this job gave him a good general overview of the AEC and how it worked. In 1957, Hewlett was contacted in order to find a historian to write an official history of the AEC. Unable to find any academic historians interested, because of his history backgrounds, Hewlett himself was offered the job, which he happily accepted. The rest is history! More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 395, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Index. Bookplate of John Lyman inside front cover! Minor front board weakness. The author had served in the U.S. Navy. He also appears to have been a descendant of Samuel Hill (1771-1825) of Machias, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts, who was a ship captain. The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most capable navy in the world and it has been estimated that in terms of tonnage of its active battle fleet alone, it is larger than the next 13 navies combined, which includes 11 U.S. allies or partner nations. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, and two new carriers under construction. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the U.S. Navy is the third largest of the U.S. military services in terms of personnel. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1974]. First Printing. 22 cm, 132, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, top inside corner missing from front endpaper through title page, some soiling to DJ. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1974]. First Printing. 22 cm, 132, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, front DJ torn. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1974]. Second Printing. 22 cm, 132, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, stamp inside front flyleaf, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. More
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1962. First Edition. 184, illus., app, biblio, index, slight discolor ins bds, large blue marker price ins fr flylf partially erased, sm tears to DJ. More
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1962. 184, illus., app, biblio, index, top portion fr flylf torn off, tape stain fr bd, rear bd somewhat scuffed, some wear edges bds & sp. More
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1962. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 184, illus., appendix, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: edge tears/chips. More
Derby, CT: Monarch Books, Inc., 1963. pocket paperbk, 189, wraps, appendix, bibliography, covers somewhat soiled, text has darkened Compiled by the staff of Navy Times, this book contains the 200-year history of the development of submarines. More
London: Conway, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 448 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Occasional Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. The book has been exposed to some moisture (presumed to be only briefly). There is some staining and rippling of the DJ, minor impact on the outer cover and some top edge staining. All pages separate, including the photograph inserts. Jean Hood is a maritime author and historian. Jean Hood began her professional career working as an advertising copywriter. Advertising soon led Hood to Lloyd's Register of Shipping where she became Information Officer during the 1980s. Her job at Lloyd's Register of Shipping inspired a love for maritime history. She became an authoritative figure and consultant in this field. Her subsequent research on the 18c East Indiaman, ‘Winterton’, spanning two decades, became the subject of her first non-fiction book, Marked For Misfortune. In 2006, Hood released Come Hell and High Water, an examination of several infamous or less well-known shipwrecks, to critical acclaim. Warship International Fleet Review wrote that it ‘reads like the best fiction, yet they are all true stories’. In an interview with The Sentinel in August 2010, Hood explained the intention of her latest work, Carrier: A Century of First-hand Accounts of Naval Operations in War and Peace: ‘my book tells the human, rather than the technical, story of aircraft carriers and naval aviation, using eye-witness stories from those who served.’ Navy News described it as ‘probably the definitive book on life in the capital ship of the past seventy or so years… pretty much everything involving carrier operations, full stop, is covered.’. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 278, illus., index, boards stained, pencil erasure on front endpaper, mass produced letter laid in. More