Navy & Naval Affairs: Authors P - Z

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Paine, Ralph D. The Fighting Fleet: Five Months of Active Service with The American Destroyers and Their Allies in the War Zone. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. 1st edition. 393 pages. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13042. $12.50
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Quester, George H., editor. Sea Power in the 1970's. Conference on Problems of Naval Armaments, Ithaca, New York, 1972. New York: Dunellen & Kennikat, 1975. 248 pages. Sponsored by the Cornell University Program on Peace Studies. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. ISBN 0804670889. #10771. $17.50
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Rausa, Rosario. Gold Wings, Blue Sea: A Naval Aviator's Story. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1988. 2d printing. x, 200 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. First published in 1980. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0870212192. #20574. $17.50
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Rimington, Critchell. Fighting Fleets. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. 5th printing. 240, 4 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. A pictorial survey of the navies of the world. Very good hardcover in poor dust jacket. #13317. $7.50
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Sadkovich, James J., editor. Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990. 1st printing. xxii, 203 pages. Index. Bibliography. Contributions in Military Studies, 92. Contributors are Malcolm Muir, Jr., Harry Stegmaier, Jr., Marc Milner, Mark P. Parillo, Claude Huan, Keith W. Bird, James J. Sadkovich, and Rolf Erikson. Very good hardcover, extensive yellow highlighting and red underlining and marginal comments; former owner's name and sticker inside front cover. ISBN 0313261490. #25733. $130
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Somerville, Keith Frazier, and Harriotte W. B. Smith, compilers. Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors, 1924-1950. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1952. 618 pages. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13320. $17.50
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Spears, John R. Our Navy in the War with Spain. New York: Scribner's, 1898. 1st printing. xxii, 406 pages. Photographs. Portraits. Map. Folding map. Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover. Spine blackened from sun, backstrip partially torn across, hinges weak. Name on fly leaf. #17233. $47.50
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Steichen, Edward. The Blue Ghost: A Photographic Log and Personal Narrative of the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Lexington in Combat Operation. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). vii, 149, [2] pages. Photographs. Very good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. #26124. $45
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Sterne, Elaine. Over the Seas for Uncle Sam. New York: Britton Publishing Co., 1918? 250 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13035. $15
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Thomas, William R. From a Small Naval Observatory. New York: Arno, 1980. Reprint. 77 pages. Navies and men. A collection of navy humor. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Fine. ISBN 0405130791. #11680. $12.50
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Thursfield, H. G., editor. Brassey's Annual, the Armed Forces Year-Book, 1958. London: William Clowes, 1958. xi, 390, 12 pages. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Advertising. Exlibrary. Very good hardcover. Call number on spine blacked out. Stamps and markings on endpapers. #20502. $17.50
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United States. Naval History Division. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. (Complete in 8 volumes). James L. Mooney and Richard T. Speer, editors, Volumes 7-8. Washington, D.C.: Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, 1959-1981. Small 4to (medium-large books). 8 volumes. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. Pictorial endpapers. Volumes 7-8 issued by the Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy. 'An alphabetical arrangement of the ships of the Continental and United States Navies, with a historical sketch of each one.' - Prefaces and Forewords by George W. Anderson, Arleigh Burke, Ernest McNeill Eller, Thomas B. Hayward, Edward Hidalgo, James L. Holloway III, Edwin B. Hooper, John D. H. Kane, Jr., James L. Mooney, Paul H. Nitze, Thomas H. Moorer, and Elmo R. Zumwalt. Appendices include Aircraft and Aircraft Carriers, Amphibious Warfare Ships, Aviation Auxiliaries, Civil War Ordnance, Confederate Forces Afloat, Destroyers and Tenders, Escort Vessels, Guided Missile Cruisers, Historic Ship Exhibits, Minecraft, Monitors, Patrol Craft, Ships of the Line, Stone Fleet, Submarines and Chasers, Tank Landing ships (LST), Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. Exlibrary. No external labels. Stamps on top and bottom edges. In each volume stamp on front flyleaf, title page, Foreword page, rear flyleaf, and barcode label on either side of rear flyleaf. Some front and rear hinges weak. Some volumes have a bookplate on back of front flyleaf. Good hardcover bindings. #23063. $300
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United States Navy. The Deck and Boat Book of the United States Navy. New York: Military Publishing Co., 1914. 12mo (small book). 185 pages. Illustrations. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13260. $20
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United States Navy. Office of Naval Intelligence. Survival on Land and Sea: Prepared for the US Navy by the Ethnographic Board and the staff of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.: Publication Branch, Office of Naval Intelligence, United States Navy, 1943. Square 12mo (small book). 187 pages. Index. Illustrations. Endpaper Maps. Slightly worn stiff paper covers. #11788. $10
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U.S.S. Shreveport LPD-12 and U.S.S. Raleigh LPD-1. Natronlant 1971 United States Naval Academy. Paint and Powder. Annapolis: United States Naval Academy, 1971. 4to (large book). Unpaged. Illustrations. Photographs. 'This book in its entirety has been executed by third class midshipmen of the US Naval Academy with the assistance of first class midshipmen, and the Natronlant staff, 4 August 1971.' - Colophon. Pictorial hardcover. Very good. #12382. $25
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Van der Veer, Norman R. The Bluejacket's Manual, United States Navy. 1917. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1917. 5th edition. 12mo (small book). 821 pages. Illustrations. Folding illustrations. Revised November, 1916. Good hardcover. Spine title worn, edges and corners slightly rubbed, lower right-hand corner of title page torn off. #26403. $25
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Van Orden, M.D. The Book of United States Navy Ships. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973. 2d ed, fully revised. Oblong 8vo. 96 pages. Photographs. Good cloth-covered hardcover in slightly torn and worn dust jacket. ISBN 0396068502. #17033. $15
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Waters, Harold. Adventure Unlimited: My Twenty Years of Experience in the United States Coast Guard. London: Hutchinson, 1956. 1st ed. 184 pages. Photographs. Good cloth-covered hardcover. #11888. $15
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Willson, Beckles. The Life of Lord Strathcoma and Mount Royal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. 2 volumes. Illustrations. Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, some spots along edges. #13251. $70
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Winton, John, editor. The War at Sea: The British Navy in World War II. Introduction by Earl Mountbatten. New York: Morrow, 1968. 1st American edition. 416 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Very good cloth-covered hardcover binding in Good dust jacket. #16803. $20
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