Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
by Terzibaschitsch, Stefan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/GD+
- ISBN 10
- 0851775152
- ISBN 13
- 9780851775159
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Revised. 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989 (1980)* Publisher: Conway Maritime Press.* Binding and cover condition: Dark Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps, some wear to head & tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £25-00, colour photographic cover, some rubbing and small tears to head & tail of spine and to top of flap folds. No Loss. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations. Little used, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w Photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 302 pp. text. xlii pp. Appendices, bibliography,* This fully comprehensive book covers the most powerful ships in the history of naval warfare and details all American fleet carriers - even those never completed - between the 'Langley (CV-1)', a converted collier, and the latest nuclear-powered giants of the 'Nimitz' type. It has been updated in this SECOND EDITION to include the USS ?Carl Vinsen? and the USS ?Theodore Roosevelt? from 1982 & 1986 respectively. Changes in the composition of the Carrier Air Wing inventory are recorded. A FINE book with only minor shelf wear to reduce the boards to VG+ and the jacket to GD+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4629
- Title
- Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
- Author
- Terzibaschitsch, Stefan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0851775152
- ISBN 13
- 9780851775159
- Publisher
- Conway Maritime Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 320
- This edition first published
- 1989
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