Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance: A Manual for Shipbuilders, Ship Superintendents, Students, and Marine Engineers de Walton, Thomas - 1918-01-01

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 8th.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1944* Publisher: Charles Griffin & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine & logo to face with impressed frame to border. Corners bumped, minor rubs with minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top corner of ffep clipped. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, some age to all edges, slight spotting throughout, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings and diagrams within text throughout many of them on multi-page fold outs.* Pages: 275 pp. text. vi pp., index & blank pages at rear.* Description: A Manual for Shipbuilders, Ship Superintendents, Students, and Marine Engineers including 146 illustrations, including 22 folding diagrams reduced from working drawings. The book is divided into two sections "Shipbuilding and Strength of Ships," & Present-Day Shipbuilding and Maintenance."* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 8th edition with some minor faults but no dust jacket.*