From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919, Volume One - The Road to War, 1904-1914 (Signed and Inscribed)

4th Impression. xxiv, 460pp, with portrait plate frontispiece and further plate illustrations, map. In navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 'Arthur Marder with all good wishes to John Dekker, Wadham, 21.v.79'. 8vo. Cloth a little faded, especially on spine, lightly rubbed and discoloured at edges, gently rounded at spine tips. Slightly cocked. Internally, a hint of toning in page margins, else neat, clean and tight throughout. In its original, worn and creased, dust jacket, a little rubbed at edges, a little more markedly at spine tips. Separately printed corrigenda slip loosely laid in. Volume One of Marder's five volume definitive history of the Royal Navy in the years before and during the First World War.