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Softcover. Quarto, 102 pages. In Very Good condition. Paperback binding. Spine blue with white lettering. Covers have mild wear including light soiliing, crease to the spine and slight edge wear. Text block has slight wear. Very slight interior wear. Illustrated. Volume one. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international expedited customers, please inquire about rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Oversized Ephemera Shelf. 1404366. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. B. T. Publisher, 1968. 102 pgs. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Remains of a bookplate present to the verso page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The book offers detailed tabulations of dimensions, displacements, machinery and speed, coal capacity, range, armor, weapons, and so forth. The text offers only a little discussion of the design development history of the ships or classes of ships. There are short discussions of the deployments and fates of each ship. The text is accompanied by many black and white photos. There are also some sketches of deck plans and longitudinal section views. The brief texts or titles are written in Cyrillic Russian. The arrangement of the book is somewhat odd. The book starts out with the newest "Dreadnought" type ships, launched in 1911 - 1914, and then proceeds back in time to the older ships launched in the 1850s and 1860s. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 102 pages.

Soft Covers. Condición: VG. No Jacket. Photos, Plans Ilustrador. 1st. The author obviously planned to develop a series of volumes on the Russian Navy in Imperial times, but only this volume on battleships appears to have been published. Probably having only a limited print run it is now scarce and possibly even rare. This book follows the development of powered capital ships which replaced sail from the mid-1800s. Its coverage includes experimental and one-off ships, coastal defernce battleships, those involved in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, and the more modern classes that participated in WWI, the Russian Revolution and some that were still in service in WWII. In addition to names and launching dates and a exstensive specification for each class or ship, the aurthor has also compiled a detailed history of each --- and there are many for the Russian Navy was one of the largest at the beginning of WWI. He has also compiled an extensive array of photographs and fine line plans showing the profile and deck lay-out of the ships. An important book on Russia's post-sail capital ships. This a first edition of 1968. 102 pages, b/w photos and plans throughout. Colour pictorial card front cover is VG with light surface wear, slight lifting of title strip on spine, plain back cover has light green smudging near lower edge, there is a slight, unobtrusive buckling to top page edges, text block otherwise excellent, no inscriptions, but UK dealer label inside front cover,