Blue HB with good cover,Dj slightly creased and has a few small rips but good,translated from French by Dennis George,great diagrams and maps,BW photos,bind and book good,no rips,stamps,marks or inscriptions,brilliant diagrams of submarines,story of Commander Philippe Tailliez of the French navy,who while a prisoner of Russians at Murmansk made experiments to convert a submarine for under water recovery vessel,great book