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MARCH Edgar J. - British Destroyers. A History of Development 1892-1953. Drawn by Admiralty Permission from Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers and Building Plans. With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma. WITH T.L.s. x3 AND EPHEMERA FROM THE AUTHOR

Seeley Service,, [1966]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, over 170 half-tone plates from photographs and around 100 detailed plans (the majority folding); original navy buckram, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean, fresh copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately rubbed at extremities. A NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY OF A STANDARD REFERENCE. A printed copy of the author's initial request for additional photographs, published in 'Naval Review', is mounted on a rear leaf of text. This followed by three lengthy T.L.s from the author regarding SCORPION and related 'S'-class vessels. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Law, 1063.
EUR 224.00 [Appr.: US$ 241.05 | £UK 192.25 | JP¥ 36875] Book number 47484

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