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19939029582New York: Oxford University Press 1993. 1st. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine and front and back boards stamped in gilt. 6 x 9 1/8 inches. 625 pages. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
191783463Annapolis: The United States Naval Institute 1917. Revised and Corrected edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. x 383 3 pages. Illustrations including many folding plates charts diagrams. No dust jacket present. Spine says 1915. Cover and edges show some staining; all pages are separate and the text is clear. Ink notation inside the front cover references a Special Aide to Commandant 5th Naval District. Lieut. Commander Roland Curtin undertook the task of revising the text of Ordnance and Gunnery. It was was not completed when he died and was completed by Lieutenant Commander Thomas Johnson shortly before the entry of the United States into the WWI. Among the topics covered are Metals used in Ordnance Construction Naval Rifled Guns Breech-Mechanisms Main Battery Guns Gun-Sights Gun-Mounts Turret-Mounts Gas-Expelling Device Firing- Attachments Field Artillery Explosives Smokeless Powder Gun-Cotton Ammunition Projectiles Fuses Armor Proving-Ground Range-Finders and Demolitions. Lieutenant Commander Roland I. Curtin served on the USS Wasp during the Spanish-American War. Thomas Johnson graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis Class of 1898. He retired as a U.S. Navy Captain. He was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. CANOICUS engaged in laying mines in the North Sea during World War I. Naval ordnance includes all the weapons and their control systems used by naval forces. These can be classed by type guns mines torpedoes depth charges bombs rockets or missiles; by warheads conventional or nuclear; by launching platform surface airborne or underwater; or by targets submarine air or surface. Until the mid-nineteenth century U.S. Navy ships were armed with carriage-mounted muzzle-loading smooth-bore cannons principally of iron firing solid shot at point-blank range. At the time of the Civil War pivot mounts turrets rifled guns and explosive projectiles were in use. By World War I directors rangekeepers computers and breech-loading steel guns were in use. Moored mines contact-activated or controlled from the shore were used in the Civil War. World War I aircraft were armed with machine guns and crude bombs. The United States Naval Institute hardcover
19203430072Boston: Houghton and Mifflin 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge worn with bumped and worn corners fading at top of spine. Thomas Leonard Livermore 1844-1918 served in the 1st New Hampshire Volunteers Regiment and the 5th New Hampshire. He was wounded at the Battle of Malvern Hill in July 1862 and later transferred to command the 18th New Hampshire at the rank of Colonel. His diary "Days and Events" was based on his own experience as a soldier in volunteer regiments in the Union army. His narrative provides an insight into the cultural social and military circumstances of the Civil War. Ex-Library; 9.75" tall; 485 pages. Houghton and Mifflin hardcover
1998DADAX0792352661Springer 1998-10-31. 1998. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.81x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
1987x-0275924831Praeger Pub Text 1987. Hardcover. New. 215 pages. 9.40x6.10x0.80 inches. Praeger Pub Text hardcover
1997SONG1878271822Princeton Architectural Press 1997-12-01. 2nd. paperback. Used: Good. 5.50x0.38x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Princeton Architectural Press paperback
1985104875Victoria B.C.: R.M.C. Class of 1934 1985. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. xxix2391;xvi2459; xv4563pp. Three volumes Quarto in original red buckram with b&w and colour illustrations including frontispieces from photos many portraits and drawings by Alan B. Connelly Volume I etc. Minor dampstaining to top edge of three volumes. very good History of the Class of 1934 Royal Military College Kingston 1985 R.M.C. Class of 1934 hardcover
2000DADAX0199241104Oxford University Press USA 2000-12-28. paperback. New. 6.00x0.75x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press, USA paperback
1999x-0700609598Univ Pr of Kansas 1999. Hardcover. New. 362 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. Univ Pr of Kansas hardcover
1972x-0837156408Praeger Pub Text 1972. Hardcover. New. 466 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Praeger Pub Text hardcover
1988Q-0803929935SAGE Publications Inc 1988-04-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! SAGE Publications, Inc paperback
1921biblio37557<p>Garden City NY and Toronto: Doubleday Page & Company; First Edition 1921. XV274 pages. VerGood to NearFine Hardcover no dj. DarkGreen cloth Black lettering and stamping. Hardly visible stain of soiling in front. Minimal foxing to the endpapers otherwise Clean Unmarked throughout. Excellent binding and hinges. 7.6"x5.25"x1.2". be24722.</p> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1999SKU0636236Wiley-Blackwell 1999-09-15. paperback. New. 11x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Wiley-Blackwell paperback
1999x-0814718965New York Univ Pr 1999. Hardcover. New. 215 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. New York Univ Pr hardcover
1998DADAX0801434629Cornell University Press 1998-08-10. hardcover. New. 6.12x0.88x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cornell University Press hardcover
1999Q-0521621496Cambridge University Press 1999-01-28. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cambridge University Press hardcover
1971mon0000192683W B Saunders Co Ltd 1971-06-11. Hardcover. Good. 3.0976 in x 28.7781 in x 22.7827 in. Ex-library book Hardback/Hardcover usual stamps and marking. Clean text sound binding. W B Saunders Co Ltd hardcover
1999Q-0534371647Cengage Learning 1999-12-29. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cengage Learning hardcover
19131670077Oxford University Press Clarendon 1913. Clarendon Press. hardcover. Used-Very Good. Cloth dj. 1913 printing First Edition. Some edgewear to dj. and a diamond-shaped excision to the dj. spine preseumably to remove a label or price. Two small inkstamps and a blindstamp on endpapers else very sound and clean internals. Rear hinge starting but holding well. Oxford University Press (Clarendon) unknown
1999SONG0521621496Cambridge University Press 1999-01-28. Revised. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.25x0.50x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1975127H3347USA: Keats Publishing Inc. 1975. Book. Fair. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 200 pages. Index. "Presents devastating conclusions. No one interested in his/her own health can afford to ignore them." - back cover. Faint pencil erasure inside front cover otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reading copy. Keats Publishing, Inc. Paperback
1912677401912. BROUN Thomas L. comp. Dr. William Leroy Broun. New York: The Neale Publishing Company 1912. 1st ed. vi247pp. Portrait frontis. portraits. Orig. cloth. Fine. "A collection of widely varied articles by and concerning a man who was a prominent Confederate ordnance officer and a professor"--Krick 55. unknown
1985120341Victoria B.C.: R.M.C. Class of 1934 1985. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. xxix2391;xvi2459; xv4563pp. Limited signed edtion on 200 copies. Three volumes Quarto in original red buckram with B&W and colour illustrations including frontispieces from photos many portraits and drawings by Alan B. Connelly Volume I etc. very good History of the Class of 1934 Royal Military College Kingston 1985 R.M.C. Class of 1934 hardcover
1980DADAX9027931283Walter de Gruyter Inc 1980-12-01. 1. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.75x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Walter de Gruyter, Inc hardcover
1999DADAX0805836918Routledge 1999-12-01. 1. hardcover. New. 6.00x1.25x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover