About this title: 1928. Illustrated. Contents: Collision; On the S-51; Rescue Efforts; Vacillation; The Salvage Problem; Diving; The Divers; Off Block Island; In the Engine Room; The First Snag; The Control Room; Another Struggle; The First Pontoon; Blowing the Ballast Tanks; Outside the Control Room; A Lost Diver; The Motor Room; Winter; A Diving School; Lost, A Submarine; Pontoons Again; My First Dive; Sealing Up Aft; The Torch Solves a Problem; The First Tunnel; The Cement Gun; An Ocean Oil Well; The Engine Room Hatch; More Pontoons; A Tug of War; The Last Tunnel; Lashing Up; June 22, 1926; Still More ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NAL Trade
Date Published: 2004-04-06
ISBN-13:9780451211514ISBN:0451211510
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NAL Trade
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780451211514ISBN:0451211510
Description: New. Slight shelf wear. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780451211514ISBN:0451211510
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is NEAR FINE. Only flaws are a remainder mark on bottom pages and very slight bend in front cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 326 p. Page seperating in back. Boards are faded. Corners and spine bumped. Some marks on cover. Edges of pages yellowed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild Of America
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. C. 1928. Black decorated cloth. Illustrated endpapers. Photos. Hinges slighlty weak. Light wear. Very small spot on front cover.; 324 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead Company, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Cover faded with some shelfwear, spine darkened. Top and bottom spine edges bumped with some wear and small tears. Top page edges dusty. Hinges loose and faded at front and back. Inked name on ffep. No DJ. Illustrated with many photographs of submarine recovery. read more
Binding: book Softcover
Publisher: New Amer Library
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780451211514ISBN:0451211510
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 320 pages. 9.30 x 5.50 x 0.50 in. 11.2 oz. Describes the September 1925 sinking of the U.S. Navy Submarine S-51 following a collision with a steamship and the heroic efforts of Elssberg and his crew to raise the sub from the bottom of the sea and to rescue the trapped crew, in a new edition of the classic sea epic. read more
Edition: Unstated Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. Hardcover with no jacket, possible 1st edition. 1928-1929. Book is ex-library with usual stamps, stickers and markings. Book is in Good condition with mild wear to boards and good binding, text clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Previous Owner This is a book about submarines and diving, though this was in the days before scuba equipment. The cover is worn along the spine, edges and corners, with light soil, spotting and rubbing, on the boards. The back hinge is cracked, but all pages and plates are intact. The pages are deckled along the fore-edge and tail. They are yellowing, with light soil, spotting and wear. The only marking is an inscription on the half-tilte page, ... read more
Description: Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1966. Book is in like new condition. Has a great dust jacket with a man in a deep sea suit looking at a sub with fish around him. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some minor flaws such as a few light surface scrapes which are the same color as other images on cover so it's hard to tell they are there. This edition has a glossary in the back, and a full page on the author's other book, "Hell on Ice. " Has 16 pages of plates. Dust jacket ... read more
Edition: Probably First Edition
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good Minus. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Black binding with orange lettering and green decoration, clean, a bit shaken, illustrated with photos, edges rubbed with mild fraying at corners and at head and tail of spine, 324 pages, end paper drawing of submarine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: fair. 324, endpaper plans, glossary, bds worn and spotted, spine worn and discolored, discoloration inside boards, some foxing to text. Small tears at top and bottome spine edges, spine edges quite worn. read more
"What is it that drives a man who has just burrowed out of a collapsed tunnel in turbid depths to turn right around and go back for a second face-off with the unrestrained violence of the Atlantic? It is the fortitude of this sailor and others like him that supply the thrust of Commander Edward Ellsberg’s recounting of the efforts of a team of all-volunteer United States Navy hardhat divers to raise the fractured hull of a submarine lying on the floor of New England’s continental shelf. Ellsberg, the officer-in-charge of the salvage operation and a diver himself, begins by schooling the reader in the inherent hazards of deep-sea diving, in language that paints a clear picture for even the most uninformed layperson; he then takes his audience through the painstaking procedures associated with raising the S-51 along with the trapped remains of her officers and crew, the victims of a surface collision with a passenger steamship. In his book, published in 1928 three years after the sub’s ramming, Ellsberg leaves neither a line untended nor a hook unmoused as he proceeds to describe, in exacting detail, the tedious but necessary rigging undertaken by his men. And therein lies the problem with this otherwise compelling piece of storytelling: within those areas of the text that describe and give the reader a sense of the agonizingly slow progress of the diving team—what at times seems like one step forward then two steps back—the lack of an appendix with drawings and diagrams of the rigging hardware makes for, at times, a difficult read that might leave readers frustrated by their inability to clearly visualize what is unfamiliar to most, notwithstanding a two-page glossary and the inclusion of 25 black & white photos of various stages of the operation. Nevertheless, beyond the scope of the technical, Ellsberg has the ability to engage the reader through the drama of his depictions of courageous men doing their jobs under conditions of great physical and mental stress, and there is plenty of that to keep the pages turning. 'On the Bottom' is the definitive story of the spirit of navy “can do,” the ability of sailors to transcend a succession of failures and achieve the “impossible”—a testament to the power of the confidence, trust, and mutual respect between Ellsberg and his divers."
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