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GADGETS

by

Patrick Vaux

First published 1917 by Hodder and Stoughton, London

A blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine and blind title to front board - shelf worn with top and bottom of spine whole but thin - previous owner's name and date - page block very clean and tight- still near VERY GOOD condition.

226 pages 130 mm. x 190 mm. x 33mm.

£10.00 plus P & P


"Gadgets? What are gadgets? Anything, everthing - parts of mechanism - and so on. Anything whatever, we call gadgets. We're gadgets too. Parts of the Naval Machine. Thats what we all are. Just gadgets!"
- Lieutenant (E).


CONTENTS

THE,HOUR IS STRUCK
WHEN BUNKERS ARE FILLING
THE MAN BEHIND THE BOILERS
THE BLUEJACKETS' DIVERSIONS
AS HEARD IN 'ANDREW '
CONCERNING (s)
AS THE FLEET IS AT SEA .
UNDER THE RED FLAG
[ diving not communist ! ]
FODDER OF THE GUNS
AS A FLAGSHIP TALKS
WHEN 'CHURCH IS RIGGED'
'THE EVILEST THING IN THE NAVY'
THE MIDSHIPMAN
THE LONG, LONG WATCH
AESCULAPIUS IN THE NAVY
EYES OF THE SHIP
BROOMS OF THE SEA



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Blind title to front board seen beneath superimposed title page detail

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