Pritchett, V. S., — BUILD THE SHIPS.
HMSO, London, 1946, 1st edn., paperback original, 63pp, many half tone photo ills. in text, half tone photo pictorial endpapers, printed by C. Nicholls & Co, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7", one of the less common HMSO titles of this series, the official account of the British shipyards in wartime, covering the construction from keel and ribs to plates and rivets, the launch and fitting out, conversions to escort carriers, repairs after action, and the vast program of building landing craft, ills include before and after photos of an escort carrier converted from a tanker, ships under contruction and repair, etc., rubbed at extrems., some flaking at edges of spine, nicks to spine ends, cnrs. inclined to curl, good plus,
