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Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905
by Chesneau & Kolesnik)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE
- ISBN 10
- 0831703024
- ISBN 13
- 9780831703028
- Seller
-
Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY, NY: Mayflower Books, 1979. 1st American edition. Oversize Hardbound. NEAR FINE. As new except for small bump to bottom corner of text block and slightest tilt to spine. Crisp and clean, unclipped dust jacket. All major warships built in the period between the first ironclad and Dreadnaught. Organized by country with an introduction on political and technical developments followed by ships divided by type and class. Includes tabular data and design history with photo and/or drawing for each class. 440 indexed, illustrated pages. 8.75x12.5x1.5"
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- Bookseller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0-NY003
- Title
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905
- Author
- Chesneau & Kolesnik)
- Format/Binding
- Oversize Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE
- Edition
- 1st American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0831703024
- ISBN 13
- 9780831703028
- Publisher
- Mayflower Books
- Place of Publication
- NY, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY / Military / Naval;
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Bethel, Connecticut
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
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