London: Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., Date: 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Firmly bound, black cloth boards, whitish marks on cover, name and date written inside. Small handling wear on jacket, not price clipped. 1975. Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd. ISBN 0854221042 9780854221042 [GB]

Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0854221042 9780854221042 [GB]

ISBN10: 0854221042, ISBN13: 9780854221042, [publisher: Seeley,Service and Co. Ltd., London] Hardcover First Edition Unread,d/w and book in near fine condition. Robert Whitehead came from Bolton,Lancashire and his daughter married Georg von Trapp, who employed a governess on his wife's early death and subsequently became the Von Trapp Family Singers and whose story became The Sound Of Music.
[BOLTON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1975]
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London: Seely, Service & Co Ltd. Bound in clean black cloth with gilt titles to spine, this dated Date: 1975 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped|. 253pp with Author's Note, 15 Chapters, Appendices, 20 illustrations, and Index. Condition all VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1975. 1975. Seely, Service & Co Ltd ISBN 0854221042 9780854221042 [GB]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn to front,inner dw/dj flap but unusually a previous owner's neat,ink name to dw/dj's rear,inner flap and price-clipped to front flap.Book is slightly cocked.Top+fore-edges both aged and slightly grubbed; contents, generally bright and clean.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers with no hint of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,253pp,b/w contemporary illustrations and photographs. The story of Robert Whitehead,inventor of the torpedo.Without the torpedo,the submarine would still be a nautical toy of little military value and 25,706,096 tons of merchant shipping might not be rusting on the sea-bed.Without the torpedo Jutland could well have been an overwhelming British victory and the Battle of the Atlantic need never had been fought.Whitehead,a relatively unknown engineer exerted more influence over the tactics of naval warfare and the design of warships than all the world's top Admirals and naval architects put together.And the weapon he created twice brought Britain to the verge of defeat. Gray tells,for the first time, the story of Whitehead's life tracing the the developement of the torpedo from it's birth to today's missile age.A hard working engineer from Bolton-le-Moor Lancashire, benevolent and devoted family man ...

United Kingdom: Seeley Service, Date: 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Not Xlib 1975. Seeley Service ISBN 0854221042 9780854221042 [US]

Seeley. DJ in archival cover price clipped. Stated first published. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Date: 1975. 1975. Seeley ISBN 0854221042 9780854221042 [US]