NELSON TO VANGUARD: WARSHIP DEVELOPMENT 1923-1945
Written by David K. Brown.
Stock no. 1828199
Published by Chatham Publishing. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The author brings to account the Royal Navy's response to the restrictions placed on it by the Washington Naval Treaties in the inter-war years, and the construction of the fleet with which the Navy fought the Second World War. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 224 pages including index. ISBN: 1861761368. Pale damp stain (coffee?) to top edge of text block, also to top of pastedowns, endpapers, and inside edge of dustwrapper. Otherwise a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

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DHOWS TO DELTAS
Written by Renato 'Sonny' Levi; Erroll Bruce; et al.
Stock no. 1327293
Published by Nautical Publishing Company. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Written by on e of the most stimulating personalities in high speed boat design, this book is part autobiography, partly an intriguing account of the author's design experience, and finally a section dealing iwith the theoretical and practical considerations underlying the design of fast craft, leading to imaginative thinking about speed and the future. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams and photos. ISBN: 0245599568. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light scratch mark to front cover. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn to spine and corners and slightly browned to spine.

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SHIPS
Written by R. Barnard Way; Noel D. Green.
Stock no. 1826344
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1940. Almost very good condition.

Title to boards is 'The Modern Ship'. A book about Ship building. Cloth baords, gilt title to spine, blind title to front. B/w diagrams. Boards are very grubby and stained. Spine edges are rubbed. Text block and endpapers browned. '5p' in blue ink to top corner of front pastedown. Some grubby marks to contents. Hinges are pulled but binding is tight.

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SHIPBUILDING IN THE PORT OF BRISTOL
Written by Grahame Farr.
Stock no. 2137689
Published by National Maritime Museum. 1984. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 27 - 1977. Containing a list of the vessels known to have been built in the Port of Bristol, with an introduction, Notes on the builders, appendices, tables and a map. ISBN: 0905555058. Some light browning and a few grubby marks.

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THE BATTLECRUISER HOOD (ANATOMY OF THE SHIP)
Written by John Roberts.
Stock no. 2136607
Published by Conway Maritime Press. 1st 1982. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Anatomy of the Ship. Oblong format. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0851772501. Bumping and wear to corners and edges. Some fading and damp marking to bottom edges and base of spine. Page edge browning. Some grubby marks to endpapers. Wrapper is browned with some chips and nicks to corners.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS VOLUME LXII
Written by R.W. Dana.
Stock no. 2136444
Published by Institution Of Naval Architects. 1920. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Spine is faded with a few chips and nicks at edges. Marks and some scuffing to covers. Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins.

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GRANDE DAME: HOLLAND AMERICA LINE AND THE S.S. ROTTERDAM
Written by Stephen M. Payne.
Stock no. 1823054
Published by RINA Ltd. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition.

A worthy tribute to one of the world's favourite cruise passenger liners. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos and plans. ISBN: 0903055120. Spine lightly faded. Minor crease to top edge with tiny closed tear. A few minor marks to front cover. Contents clean.

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AROUND THE COAST AND ACROSS THE SEAS
Written by Nigel Watson.
Stock no. 1822835
Published by St Matthew's Press. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The story of James Fisher And Sons, prominent in the British shipping industry based in Barrow. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 0953410129. Dustwrapper spine has faded from green to blue.

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THE BOMB VESSEL GRANADO 1742 (ANATOMY OF THE SHIP)
Written by Peter Goodwin.
Stock no. 1320889
Published by Naval Institute Press. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Slightly oblong format. Anatomy of the Ship Series. Contains superbly executed line drawings - the conventional 3-view type of plan as well as explanatory perspective views with fully descriptive keys. ISBN: 0870211781. Light bumping to corners. Contents are excellent. Some fading to wrapper spine.

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CAMMELL LAIRD
Written by Ian Collard.
Stock no. 1816634
Published by Tempus. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition.

A voyage of discovery with absorbing captions to over 160 b/w photos of the vessels at Cammell Laird and the yard itself. Pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 0752432672.

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ELECTRIC WELDING IN SHIPBUILDING
Written by W. Heigh; D.M. Kerr; et al.
Stock no. 2127070
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1944. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine and blind title to front cover. A series of lectures given at Stow College, Glasgow. By authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. B/w diagrams and photos. Bumping along cover edges. A few marks to covers. Some foxing.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS VOLUME LXVI
Written by R.W. Dana.
Stock no. 900440
Published by Institution Of Naval Architects. 1924. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Folding b/w plans. Contents VG but spine has 4 inch split.

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