Surface Pole by Calvert Commander James (13 results)

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

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.

vgd. vgd.

Condition: Good. 1963. No edition remarks. 211 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and moderate foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Mild warping to front board. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Moderate water staining to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

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

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

1st edition. 8vo. viii + [221pp.] B/w. frontispiece and illustrations, e.p. maps. Some occasional slight foxing, ownership inscription to verso of front f.e.p. Slightly rubbed original black boards with spine lettered in white and pale blue. Ex-libris Ann Savours Shirley, with her signature. US$6.

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.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition, 3rd Printing. 220p. Contents are unmarked with a slight patina. Navy blue boards have gilt lettering on spine with minor rubbing along the edges. Jacket is clipped with some chips and tears along the extremities; original price of $4.95 remains. Binding is tight with hinges fully attached.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo hardcover 211pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.

1st ed. thus dust jacket Very Good octavo viii + 211pp., frontis., b/w pls., plan, The USS Skate under the Ice at the North Pole.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Surface at the Pole: The Voyages of the USS Skate, Calvert, Commander James, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1960, 220p, hc w/ dj, dj bumped/scuffed/ tears/tape repairs/price clipped, boards bumped/scuffed, CLEAN text, solid binding--SIGNED/INSCRIBED IN MYSTIC BY THE AUTHOR TO FELLOW SUBMARINER AND EX-FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA MAYOR BUCK CATLIN, WHO SUNK FIVE JAPANESE SUBMARINES AS COMMANDER OF SEVERAL SUBS. HE WAS ALSO A track and field coach. He helped coach four-time Olympian Martha Watson, decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson, bronze medalist John Rambo, and former NFL players such as Gene Washington and Dee Andrews--125.00. Signed by Author(s).