The Devil's device: The story of Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo by Edwyn Gray - 1975

Hardback. Very Good.

Seeley, 1975. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. military.

London: Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Firmly bound, black cloth boards, whitish marks on cover, name and date written inside. Small handling wear on jacket, not price clipped.

Seeley Service & Co., 1975,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0854221042 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 253pp, illustrated, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0854221042 .

United Kingdom: Seeley Service, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Not Xlib

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Seely, Service & Co Ltd. Bound in clean black cloth with gilt titles to spine, this dated 1975 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped|. 253pp with Author's Note, 15 Chapters, Appendices, 20 illustrations, and Index. Condition all VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1975.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn to front,inner dw/dj flap but unusually a previous owner's neat,ink name to dw/dj's rear,inner flap and price-clipped to front flap.Book is slightly cocked.Top+fore-edges both aged and slightly grubbed; contents, generally bright and clean.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers with no hint of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,253pp,b/w contemporary illustrations and photographs. The story of Robert Whitehead,inventor of the torpedo.Without the torpedo,the submarine would still be a nautical toy of little military value and 25,706,096 tons of merchant shipping might not be rusting on the sea-bed.Without the torpedo Jutland could well have been an overwhelming British victory and the Battle of the Atlantic need never had been fought.Whitehead,a relatively unknown engineer exerted more… Read More

Seeley. DJ in archival cover price clipped. Stated first published. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975.