unknown navy sailor (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dated 1979-1982, a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album, 13 1/2" w x 9" h, in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard, with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in, and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink tracings of warships, 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships, on rice paper, with each tracing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good, small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist.

Ring Bound. Condizione: Very Good. No dates, circa 1956-1971. No author and no writing of any kind. Archive includes one deck of playing cards titled Operation Deep Freeze Task Force 43, two metal ashtrays, one 4 1/2" dia. and the other 7 1/4" dia., both engraved "U.S. Naval Antarctic Support Activities; and an American United Life Annual Report three ring binder containing 24 pp. with 85 black and white photographs, three- 8" x 10"; two - 5" x 7", and 80 4 7/8" x 3 1/2", and 6 blank pages. One 8 x 10 photograph features a Lockheed C-121J Willie Victor (BuNo 131624) Phoenix 6 aircraft, which was retired following "Deep Freeze '71" in March 1971, and which was not listed on the active duty resume for Deep Freeze operations in its early stages in the late 1950s.So likely the photographs were taken on the 1970-71 expeditions. Subjects of the photographs include equipment and aircraft, personnel, landscapes, both on the ground and aerial, and a great 8 x 10 of a husky sled dog. A unique slice of Antarctic exploration history. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.