Description

Large octavo hardcover, blue cloth in dust-jacket. 288pp., Illustrated with numerous photographs, plans and diagrams. First edition thus, containing issues 13 through 16 of Warship, the periodical. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. Contains articles by numerious contributors dealing with the design, development and service history of the world’s combat ships, from the development of radar, the single calibre battleship, to the first Talos guided missle cruiser, . This issue contains over 22 other articles dealing with German, British Italian and American warships. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sqaure, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket..