Surface Pole Extraordinary Voyages by Calvert James (65 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.1.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

Condition: Good. A used book in good condition. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair, dust jacket only. Good; Navy paper over boards iwth illustrated black paper jacket, edge wear, jacket is well worn and scuffed, book is clean inside, jacket in protective plastic cover, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages.

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paperback. Condition: Good. 1st printing, 1966. No markings in text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

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Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. (1st, 7th ptg.) Slightly smaller book, dark blue cloth, gilt bright on spine, inside covers and adjacent end papers illustrated with Arctic Region map and schematic of submarine, two photo sections. DJ front blue and black background, photo of sub in cracked ice, lettering in yellow and blue, photo of Calvert with brief biography on back. DJ has light wear to top front tip, very slight wear to bottom front tip, tiny tear at top front edge, very tiny surface wear spot at spine top right edge, light wear to spine bottom edge, tiny scratch at back bottom spine indentation, tiny tear with very slight wear next to back bottom tip. 220 pages. Owner's four-line stamp at pages' bottom edge. Good+ DJ/Near Fine book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Includes 22*b/w photographs, iagrams and maps. viii, 220pp. Edges of DJ rubbed with nicks to the J corners.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The jacket is worn, creased and torn. The only chips are less than 0.5cm. The longest closed tear is 3cm. There are no inscriptions, and the binding is excellent. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket by Abner Graboff (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed (without inscription) by Commander Calvert on the title page. Very Good Minus. No dust jacket. Boards with moderate edge-wear and a few shallow scratches. Contents in excellent shape. Binding is sound. Unmarked but for author's signature. 220 pages. First printing of first edition. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16 books -- SUBMARINER, James Degnan, Dodd Mead and Co, 1959, 96p, xlib, rebound hc no dj, w/ usual stamps/markings/librarian/borrower abuse + U-BOAT KILLER. Donald Macintyre. Avon. 1956. 174p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean- + U-Boat 977. Schaeffer, Heinz. Published by Ballantine. 1973. 148p. paperback, covers lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + PIG BOATS. Roscoe. Bantam. 445p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean-- + Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS SKATE. James Calvert.Scholastic. 1966. 282p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + Submarines of the World: Over 280 of the World's Greatest Submarines. Robert Jackson. Amber Books. 2000. 318p. small trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + Unrestricted Warfare: How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II. DeRose, James F. Castle Books. 200. 310p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket covers bumped/scuffed, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean, fine condItion + RUSSIAN SUBMARINES IN ARCTIC WATERS. Kolyshkin. Bantam. 1985. 246p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean + U-Boats under the Swastika : An Introduction to German Submarines 1935-1945. Jak P. Mallmann Showell. Arco Pub. Co.1974. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean + Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War OfF America's East Coast 1942. Homer Hickam. Dell, 1991, 409p, paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean + War Fish. George Grider. Pyramid. 1959. 192p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, taped spine + Submarine Commander: A Story of World War II and Korea. Paul R. Schratz. Pocket, 1990, 397p, paperback, covers clean/bright, binding tight, text clean + RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP. Beach, 1956, 337p, paperback, covers bumped/scuffed/chipped, binding semi-solid, text clean + The Sea Wolves, Frank,Wolfgang, Ballantine Books, 1955, 220p, covers bumped/scuffed/small tears, CLEAN text, split binding + Grey Wolf, Grey Sea: Aboard the German Submarine U-124 in World War II. Gasaway, E.B. Ballantine. 1970. 245p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, good condition + GREY WOLF, GREY SEA, EB Gasaway, Ballantine, 1970, 245p, paperback, covers clean/bright, binding tight, text clean--U Boats--50.00.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st UK Edition; x, 220pages, (1), illustrated end papers, 1 diagram, 12 pages of b/w photographs. End papers show route of the USS Skate and its internal compartments viewed from the starboard side. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat inscription on verso end paper otherwise contents clean. Shelf wear, dust jacket has small repaired splits and the odd piece missing, some minor spotting to page edges, overall a nice copy. The story of the USS Skate, the atomic submarine sent north to answer the question of whether a submarine could safely operate in the Arctic Ocean, written by her commander, James Calvert, who directed both history-making voyages in 1958 and 1959 which proved that a submarine could safely navigate under the shifting ice pack and then surface through the frozen polar ice cap. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3835.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 252. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1960 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 252.

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small open tears on top and bottom front panel, spine crown and heel, and panel corners. Small closed tear on bottom front panel. Shelfwear on front and rear panel. Light foxing on text block edges.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 156.