Tanks, 1914-1918: The Log-Book of a Pioneer (1919) by Stern, Sir Albert Gerald - 2009-06-25

Naval & Military Press, 2006. Hardcover. New. 360 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.30 inches.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Thick 8vo. pp. xi, [3], 3-297, [1]. Illustrated. Book protected in new mylar. Discrete former owner's name in pencil on the front free end paper. Book is square, solid, tight and clean except for some tanning and foxing on a very few pages. Overall a handsome copy of the history of tank development during World War One.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 297pp., (1)pp. diagrams, bound in blue pictorial cloth depicting a tank climbing a small hill with barbed wire in black, spine lettering gilt, previous owner's inscription and a red sticker to front free endpaper, spine faded, tiny nick to spine, title page browned from tissue guard.. Photo illustrated showing several interesting tanks designed and used during the war.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1919 ,. 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xii,298pp, 65 illustrations, owner's name on endpaper, pages browning, especially frontis guard and title page, otherwise clean and sound, blue cloth pictorial, gilt spine titles dull, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth xi + 297pp., b/w pls., appends., Inc. many unusual photos & fine appendices of tank types with specs.Boards a little dulled & stamps of RAC Tank Museum o/w VG copy of a scarce title

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First edition. Illustrated. xi, 297, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Fine. First edition. Illustrated. xi, 297, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Several important books have been written on tanks, but this work of Sir Albert Stern's is unlikely to be superseded in its own class...the tone is highly controversial. " Falls, p. 79.