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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. Hardcover. Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 416 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Minor tanning to otherwise clear pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Mild staining to hinges. Light cracking to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has subtle tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No dust jacket. Clean text, solid binding..

10-1: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover.

Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1962. Octavo navy blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xxiii+416pps, VG (moderate staining to edges front board and bottom of spine, prev. owner's catalouge number in pen to fep.) in d/w VG- (scuffed, 2cm segment missing from spine, similar to front cover)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1962]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 28 and a double-page plate; original navy buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1963. [History / Military defence] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 416; [1], blank. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 42s. Contents clean, laminate shrink to joints else fine. A comprehensive history of the British armaments company. As a young Reuters journalist, the future James Bond novelist travelled to Moscow to cover the Stalinist show trial of six Vickers employees suspected of sabotage. This copy is from Jon Gilbert's bibliographical archive of Ian Fleming, with his pencilled ownership signature. Gilbert, p.656.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 3 inch closed tear at bottom of rear panel. .

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. xxiii, [1], 416 pages. Illustrations. Chapter Notes. Appendix A, B. C, and F. List of Abbreviations. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Tear inside front board. Some endpaper and page soiling noted. J. D. Scott was a trained historian who had worked for a number of years in the Cabinet Office on the Official History of the Second World War, specializing in the development and production of munitions. He was a co-author of The Administration of War Production and The Development of Weapons. This history was written at the invitation of the Board of Vickers, this history traces the rise of Vickers as a Sheffield steel firm in the nineteenth century, it's entry into the armament business in the 1880s, and its emergence in 1897 as the only company in Britain able to manufacture a battleship complete with armour, engines and guns. "Vickers" is both a company history and a contribution to… Leer más