Jane's Fighting Ships, 1962-63
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1962. Quarto, 467, illus., tables, index, marker notation ins fr bd, stamp on p. 2 adv., stamp & marker "H" on fore-edge, boards and spine scuffed. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1962. Quarto, 467, illus., tables, index, marker notation ins fr bd, stamp on p. 2 adv., stamp & marker "H" on fore-edge, boards and spine scuffed. More
Great Missenden: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1965. First? Printing. Quarto, 459, illus., tables, index, sticker on front board, some wear to board and spine edges, boards somewhat scratched. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Quarto, 675, illus., tables, addenda, index, library stamps, front board weak, raised stamp on title page, bookplate inside front board. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973. Quarto, 745, illus., tables, index, damp stains on a few pages (no pages stuck), DJ in plastic sleeve, plastic wrinkled and torn. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 277 pages, illustrations, index, some wear to top edge, dust jacket worn: edge tears and chips; damp stains to several pages (no pages stuck together). More
New York: Macmillan, 1960. First Printing. 22 cm, 252, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, endpapers discolored. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. First Printing. 252, maps, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: small tears. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. First Printing. 252, maps, boards and spine somewhat soiled, "Discard" stamps on fore-edge (only library markings). More
New York: Random House, 1945. 122, foxing inside boards & flyleaves, foxing to fore-edge, slight discoloration to text Novel told in poem form about the naval landing during World War II on Beach Red. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 356, illus. More
New York: Taylor and Clement, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. 328 pages. Frontis illustration of the U.S. School Ship North Carolina present Illustrations (8 folding plates and the Frontispiece). Dedicated to John Gallagher, Esq., Captain United States Navy. Captain Gallagher commanded the USS North Carolina as a ship of the line and into her role as a receiving (training) vessel. Index. Tables. Some foxing. Front flyleaf torn out, pencil notes inside rear board and flyleaf, spine quite worn: small tears, slits, pieces missing. Boards weak and quite scuffed and spotted. A portion front endpaper missing. Sentiment written inside the rear board: Brother Sailor here do stop and bend a hand to strap this block. Howes B-715; Albion, p. 71. Considered by Albion one of the most substantial and useful books on naval history. The rare first edition. It is noted that there was another publication of this work in 1841 by Shaw and Frye, also of New York. The first USS NORTH CAROLINA, a 74-gun ship of the line, was launched in Philadelphia, September 1820, and fitted out in Norfolk, Virginia, with Master Commandant Charles W. Morgan in command. A three-masted square-rigger with an overall length of 196 feet 3 inches and beam of 54 feet, she displaced 2,633 tons and carried a complement of 820. As Commodore John Rodgers’ flagship in the Mediterranean from 1825-1827, NORTH CAROLINA symbolized naval might and provided the young republic much-needed prestige and respectability. Her second voyage was in the Pacific Squadron from 1836-1839. Then the Ship-of-the-Line became a receiving [training] ship in New York Navy Yard. More
London: J. Griffin and Co., 1911. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. vi, [2], 472 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Some cover and edge wear. Sticker inside front cover. Spine and other parts of the cloth have some soiling and staining. Some endpaper, edge and page soiling noted. The Naval Annual was a book that provided considerable text and graphic information (largely concerning the British Royal Navy) which had previously been obtainable only by consulting a wide range of often foreign language publications. It was started by Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey in 1886. Though often compared with Jane's Fighting Ships, the two British annuals were, in fact quite different. The Brassey series began a dozen years earlier, and its special strength was the dozen or more detailed articles on naval matters, authored by experts. They covered British and other nations' naval developments ranging from the latest ships to overall policy. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. 37, wraps, table, spine discolored, green stains to fore-edge. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1972. Third Edition. 536, maps, apps, glossary, biblio, index, lib stamps, tape on edges of r flylf, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ wrinkled & lib # on spine. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. 315, illus., index, fr bd quite weak, binding cracked at p. 192, pgs somewhat darkened, lg tears at spine, bds scuffed & edges worn. More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, c. 1919. 239, maps, appendices, front flylf torn out, stamps ins bds, ink name & pencil note ins fr bd, some discoloration to a few pages. More
London: Cassell, 2004. Eleventh Printing. 563, wraps, some wear and creasing to covers, a few pages soiled & small tears in marginNovel about a German U-boat and her crew in 1941; the author served on a U-boat during World War II. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1955. 1st Paperback Edition. 176, apps, pgs have darkened, lib stamps, discolor ins bds, rough spot ins rear bd, bds soiled, tears at spine, lib call # on sp. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957. Quarto, 555, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, notes, index, library stamps, discoloration inside boards, binding shaken. More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957. Hardcover. Quarto, 555 pages, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, notes, index, discoloration inside boards, board edges & spine scuffed. More
New York: Random House, 1960. Quarto, 232, profusely illus., boards scuffed, lettering on spine somewhat faded. More
New York: Bramhall House, 1960. Quarto, 232, profusely illus., some soiling inside rear board and flyleaf, DJ worn: small tears, creases, small pieces missing. More
New York: Arno Press, 1974. Reprint Edition. Quarto, 232, profusely illus., DJ worn: small tears, creases, small pieces missing. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. 305, illus., endpaper map, chronology, index, fr bd quite weak, pencil underlining & notes, some foxing, bds & spine scuffed. More