Description

Quarto sized hardcover in black cloth, lettered in gold on spine. Housed in original non clipped pictorial dust-jacket. 224pp., Index. Illustrated with tables, drawings and photographs. First edition. A collection of articles, by various authors, devoted to the history, design and development of the world’s combat ships. Included also is a Naval Year in Review; Warship Notes; Naval books of the Year. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks present. Dust-jacket is complete with no tears or chips. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Features articles on The Union Navy during the Civil War, British Heavy Coast-defense Guns, Warrior and Magnificent: Postwar Canadian Carrier Aviation 1945-1957, The Last of the China Gunboats, et alia. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. Scans sent on request.