Commander Lipscomb (14 results)

Condition: Good. 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image), covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Some light tanning to edges and pages, otherwise unmarked. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, white title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. in great shape. A comprehensive and authoritative book on the British submarine and its place in the Royal Navy. Record # 32391.…

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 269 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photos and illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Light handling wear on the cover, mostly along the top edge, also a crease on the lower corner of the front cover and first page. Malcolm McGregor (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pictorial covers. with 57 pages + maps.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (Submarines, Ships, British Royal Navy) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine D. J. First Edition. FINE clean 1954 hard cover with near fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 38pp + [xvi] colour plates. White cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, and with two or three tiny pinpricks of spotting to the free endpapers. A very good copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper. "An illustrated study of the evolution of the naval submarine from the sixteenth century to the present day" - blurb.…

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

4to., Best Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, neat inscription on front paste-down; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Greatly enlarged version of a standard survey first published in 1954.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 203pp. In grey cloth boards with silver gilt title to spine. In white colour illustrated dust wrapper, with minor edge wear and a small tear to top of wrapper front and a marking to top of wrapper rear. b&w frontis and illustrated with a central b&w photo section. Overall a Very Good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Blue/ Black flecked Boars with gilt titles to spine, 250 x 185 mm approx. xii + 284 pp.Frontis + 44 other b/w photo plates + numerous plans incl fold out and line maps. First Published in 1954 the copy offered is a first printing of the Second, revised and expanded edition 1975 to include Nuclear propulsion. The copy offered is signed and inscribed by the author to the half title page. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/Good (Book- mild general shelf wear and soiling to boards, residual tape marks to free end papers from the fixing of a cellophane cover to the d/j. Top edge of book block a little dust spotted, book production fault in that two leaves to appendix slightly blurred, binding sound. Dust Jacket - moderate rubbing with a few small nicks and mild general shelf soiling, non price clipped. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Inscribed by Author(s).…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo. 203pp., b/w pls., appends., index.

Conway Maritime Press 1954, Hardcover with Dustjacket 269 pages. Standardwork about the history of the British Submarine, with pictures and a index. In fair condition.