Commander James Calvert Usn (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 3rd Printing. Ex-Library. The Extraordinary Voyages of USS Skate & Has DJ & Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The Adventurers Club 1963, book fair maroon boards gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket poor, but largely intact with internal repairs.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. No Dust Jacket. First Published. No writing or tears. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, closed tears and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, front flap largely separated and held to gether with old tape and new film wrapper, corners rubbed with small loss, some overall time staining, some spotting to page fore edges. Not price clipped (16s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 221pp, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. James Francis Calvert (1920-2009), served in the United States Navy where he commanded USS Skate, the third nuclear submarine commissioned and the second submarine to reach the North Pole, which became the first to surface at the pole. 'Skate' surfaced at the North Pole on 17th March 1959 to commit the ashes of the famed explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins to the Arctic waste. Calvert later served as the 46th superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. Jacket by Abner Graboff (illustrator).…

Gerhard Stalling, ., 1961, , 232, Hardcover (gebunden), 8°, ., Einband leicht leseschief, Einband: leicht bestoßen, etwas gebräunt, Vorsatzblaetter: leicht gebräunt, Titelblatt: gebräunt, Seiten: gebräunt, Buchrücken: leicht fleckig, etwas bestoßen.