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.
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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