Published by Gale & Polden, Aldershot,, 1955
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
US$ 109.67
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 31 plates on 22; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The standard account of the renowned Royal Naval Gunnery School at Whale Island, Portsmouth. Appendices include chronology, register of tenders and gunnery firing ships, and list of officers. SIGNED COPIES ARE RARE.