Mears Lieut Frederick (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. This hardcover edition of "Carrier Combat" shows signs of wear, with noticeable scuffing and discoloration on the green cloth cover. The spine is intact but exhibits some fading. There is no dust jacket, and the pages are slightly yellowed, typical for a book of this age. Overall, the binding remains firm, and there are no inscriptions or signatures present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition, with wartime printing statement on d/j flap and copyright page. 8vo, xviii + 156pp. Illustrated with mapped endpapers. "Buy War Bonds" ad to rear panel of dustjacket. Hardcover, bound in original green cloth with pictorial dustjacket. Book is in very good plus condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, interior. Slight evidence of small price ;label removed from front endpaper, otherwise no markings or signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine. The d/j is price-clipped and in very good condition with some mild wear to edges. Now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered blue to spine, published in the year following the authors death at Guadalcanal, this remains one of the most highly regarded accounts of naval life on board an American aircraft carrier where he served as a Torpedo Plane pilot. A tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has some loss at head and foot of spine, repaired to the reverse with cellotape and is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, bookplate of previous ownership to the front free endpaper obscuring part of map and a small address label of a later owner to bottom leading corner of front pastedown else the text is clean and free of markings, maps to endpapers, xvi + 156pp, Scarce.…