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  1943  11 th Edition
Cover: dark blue cloth covered heavy paper cover,
 early printing w/round corners (left) & late printing w/square corners (right)
book style with gold lettering & spine text
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Cover: back Title Page: front Title Page: back Forward Forward 2 Introduction
   

Author:   none listed
Copyright Date:   1938 1939, 1940, 1943 by U. S. Naval Institute
Printing Date:   1st printing  -  March, 1943
  2nd printing  -  September, 1943
  3rd printing  -  October, 1943
  4th printing  -  November, 1943
  5th printing  -  January, 1944
  6th printing  -  February, 1944
  7th printing  -  May, 1944
Printing Codes:   date code listed reverse side of title page
  early printings:  3-1-43-50 IG = March, 1943; 9-1-43-50 = September, 1943;
  10-1-43-100 = October, 1943; 11-1-43-100 = November, 1943
  late printings:  1-1-44-50 NP = January, 1944;  2-2-44-50 OPC = February, 1944;
  LI 5-3-50 = May, 1943;
  the assumption is, the 50 & 100 is the quanitity printed per printing, ie 50 = 50,000, 100 = 100,000
  and the letter codes are for various sub printers, that would explain why some manuals are round
  corners and some are square
Publisher:   U. S. Naval Institute
Printer:   U. S. Naval Institute
Size:   7¾"  x  5"  x 1¾" 
Price:   $1.25 postpaid late printings have price on title page, early ones don't
Number of Pages/Chapters:   1145 pages including a table of contents, 4 page index, 3 page color plates appendix, divided into 8 parts with 41 chapters
remarks:   War Edition, over 1,000,000 total 1943 11th editions printed
  early printings:  round corners on cover and pages
  late printings:  square corners on cover and pages

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