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London; Jarrolds, 1965.. 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 256pp, illustrated, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, black cloth, some light soiling on boards, Good / no dustwrapper .

London: Jarrolds, 1965. Unclipped dustwrapper has quite a lot of creasing and small tears to the edges, some shelf-wear to bottom edge of black boards, some foxing to outer edge of pages, and the book does smell of being shut away in a cupboard for a long time. But otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing with the use of mines at sea in the two World Wars, and with a look at earlier attempts. 256pp, 16 b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jarrolds, 1965. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket 176pp., b/w pls., maps, appendix, index, Traces the development of the sea-mine, beginning with Fire Ships, to the dangerous experiments of the 16th & 18th centuries up to 1914

Jarrolds,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Elegant copy of one of the best single-volume histories of mine warfare; about half the work is devoted to British and German mine warfare in WWII. Still a relatively under-writen aspect of WWI and WWII. SIGNED COPIES BY THIS AUTHOR ARE VERY SCARCE. Law 0839.