William R. Anderson – Nautilus 90 North – First Edition 1959 – With Portrait SIGNED by Anderson
£275.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Nautilus 90 North’ published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. A good book with fairly heavy spotting to the page edges and some rough patches to the front endpaper. In very good unclipped wrapper with two pink stamps to the endflaps from a secondary school. Accompanied by a SIGNED portrait of Anderson aboard Nautilus.
William R. Anderson (1921–2007) was a U.S. Navy admiral best known as the first commanding officer of USS ‘Nautilus’, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. Commissioned in 1954, *Nautilus* revolutionised naval warfare by allowing submarines to remain submerged far longer than diesel-electric boats. Under Anderson’s command, *Nautilus* made history in 1958 by completing the first submerged transit of the North Pole, a major Cold War achievement. Anderson later entered politics, serving as a U.S. congressman, and remained a prominent advocate of nuclear propulsion and naval innovation.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Nautilus 90 North’ published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. A good book with fairly heavy spotting to the page edges and some rough patches to the front endpaper. In very good unclipped wrapper with two pink stamps to the endflaps from a secondary school. Accompanied by a SIGNED portrait of Anderson aboard Nautilus.
William R. Anderson (1921–2007) was a U.S. Navy admiral best known as the first commanding officer of USS ‘Nautilus’, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. Commissioned in 1954, *Nautilus* revolutionised naval warfare by allowing submarines to remain submerged far longer than diesel-electric boats. Under Anderson’s command, *Nautilus* made history in 1958 by completing the first submerged transit of the North Pole, a major Cold War achievement. Anderson later entered politics, serving as a U.S. congressman, and remained a prominent advocate of nuclear propulsion and naval innovation.
