Sidewheelers to nuclear power, a pictorial essay covering 123 years at the Mare Island naval shipyard by Lemmon, Sue, and E. D. Wichels - 1977

Annapolis: Leeward Publications, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Very good presumed first edition based on OCLC records, in a very good dust jacket. White cloth boardswith black title stamping an MINSY logo on front cover. Tiny coffee stain to front cover. Darkened glue showing under rear pastedown. Dust stains to bottom edge. Dust jacket shows original price but is clipped on the bottom corner, front inner flap. Jacket shows rubbing, creases and closed tears. Jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. xvi, 240 pp. : illustrations. Long quarto. The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean. It is located 25 miles (40 km) northeast of San Francisco in Vallejo, California. The Napa River goes through the Mare Island Strait and separates the peninsula shipyard (Mare Island, California) from the main portion of the city of Vallejo. MINSY made a name for itself as the premier U.S. West Coast submarine… Read More

Annapolis.: Leeward Pub., 1977.. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine (owner name on end paper) copy. . 4to.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Annapolis: Leeward Publications, 1977 First edition. SIGNED by both authors. Oblong octavo. Pp. xvi, 240. 265 photographs (10 in color), 2 maps; appendices, bibliography, index. Original boards printed in black. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Complete history of the Mare Island naval shipyard at Vallejo, California, established in 1854 by David Farragut. The appendices include a complete roster of the navy yard's commandants and a listing of type, hull no. and date launched of the 513 ships built there. Laid into this copy are four first-day-covers for the launching of nuclear submarines built at Mare Island: SSN Sargo, first West Coast nuclear submarine commissioned (1958); USS Halibut, first nuclear powered, guided missile submarine commissioned (1959; two copies); USS Kamehameha nuclear submarine commissioned (1965); Theodore Roosevelt, nuclear submarine commissioned (1959)..