Devices of War. by Kemp, Norman - 1956

London: Werner Laurie, 1956 Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Ex-Library. Octavo. 232 pages. Green imitation cloth with black lettering. All the usual library markings, including jacket taped to boards. Text is clean and binding is tight..

Werner Laurie, London, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. 232 pages. Light wear, pages yellowed; a sound binding; good overall. The jacket has some discoloring and wear. Inventions/military/Royal Commission on Awards. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; Inventory No: 203984. .

London: Werner Laurie. nice copy; the story of great military inventions of WWII: Mulberry Harbor, Pluto (pipeline under the ocean), radar, etc . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1956.

London: Warner Laurie, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Good. 6" x 9. 232pp. Accounts of inventions by British civilians and the part they played in World War II. Well illustrated. There are a few annotations in the margins but otherwise a clean and sound book with a chipped and worn dust wrapper which has had the price torn off the corner of the flap. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. Please email with any queries. 6"x9

London: Werner Laurie, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. Bumped at upper edge, very good in edgeworn, soiled dust jacket. There was a piece of tape covering a line on the copyright page, the tape is gone, but its ghost remains (browning in that spot)

London: Werner Laurie. Very Good/Very Good. 1956. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. With illustrations from photographs. A few light foxing spots. 232 pages clean and tight. DURING THE pAst eight years, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors has given more than one million pounds of public money to men, most of them civilians, whose ideas helped Britain to win the last war. Over a thousand claims were considered and they ranged from Mulberry Harbour, Pluto (the pipeline under the ocean), the Whittle jet engine and Radar, to minor technical inventions such as improved parachutes or a new design of motor torpedo boat. This book reveals, in most instances for the first time, the human story behind some of these inventions. It describes how the inventors came to think of their ideas, their struggles in winning official approval, and how they benefited from their monetary… Read More

Werner Laurie, 1956. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text. The pictorial dust jacket is complete but with old tape strengthening to the verso which is showing in parts & thus good only. Illustrated, 232pp..

London: W. Laurie, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in original cloth in a good, if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) dust wrapper, now mylar sleeved. Boards stained. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 232 pages: illus., 23 cmSubjects: World War, 1939-1945 Engineering and construction. Military research Great Britain.Inventions Great Britain.