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.
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.
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.
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gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.