Author: YOUNG Commander Robert Travers
Title: The House that Jack Built. The Story of HMS Excellent. With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Description: Gale & Polden, Aldershot,, 1955. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 31 plates on 22; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The standard account of the renowned Royal Naval Gunnery School at Whale Island, Portsmouth. Appendices include chronology, register of tenders and gunnery firing ships, and list of officers. SIGNED COPIES ARE RARE.

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