Nautilus - 90 - North

ANDERSON, Commander William R. and Clay BLAIR, Jr. Nautilus - 90 - North.

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ANDERSON, Commander William R. and Clay BLAIR, Jr. Nautilus - 90 - North. London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1959].

8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers, map endpapers; pp. 190, plates after photographs, apart from one tiny marginal area of the wrapper with light rubbing - fine.
First UK edition, not rare but in this condition! 'USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958' ( Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, online).

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