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Biographical sketches of Samuel Du Pont, Andrew Foote, David Porter, David Farragut, John Winslow, Napoleon Collins, John Dahlgren, William B. Cushing, John Worder, and Gideon Welles & Gustavus Vasa Fox. Clean text. Minor wear along the edges.

NOT an ex library book. 335 pages. Dust jacket has minimal wear on edges, price is not clipped.

A likely second printing of Civil War historian Clarence Edward Macartney's account of Union naval operations under President Lincoln during that conflict. Focusing on the admirals who led these forces, the author describes the tactics and strategies employed. With black & white photographic portraits and several maps & drawings; foreword by George Fielding Eliot. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with spine titling and decorations in gilt. Volume wrapped in navy & gold dust jacket with montage of naval guns & flags to cover. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, another owner's signature to flyleaf dated Spring, 1984. Roughly price-clipped dust jacket with a little rubbing & light chafing to edges, else bright, complete, and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector (which also is lightly rubbed). ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, [3], 335 pages

Second edition. Very good in good dustwrapper. Bookplate, Some blotchy fading and light soiling on edges of panels and spine, browning of page edges, spine ends rubbed, dustwrapper rubbed and browned with chipping of spine ends and edges, some soiling with brown stain on edge of back cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1956. Hardcover, 334 pp. 2nd printing. With black and white portrait illustrations of the gentlemen in question. A history of the American Civil War from the naval perspective. Very good condition. A clean, unmarked copy. Underside of jacket is tanned. Jacket has one short closed tear; now in a new mylar sleeve.

Spine faded.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 335 pages.

First Edition. First printing. Very good hardcover with good DJ in new Brodart jacket. Unmarked, bright and clean - binding tight and square. DJ is lightly worn at spine ends and corners with one chip top back. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.

Foreword by George Fielding Eliot. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 335pp. Illustrations, map. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight, clean and nice first edition. Essays on Samuel Du Pont, Andrew Foote, David Porter, David Farragut, John Winslow, Napoleon Collins, John Dahlgren, William B. Cushing and John Worden. NEVINS I, 228.

In Mylar jacket protector. Out of print. Binding is cloth.