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Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States
by Semmes, Raphael
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co, 1869. Hardcover. Poor. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 828pp. Heavy wear to cloth over boards with rubbing, toning, soiling, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Hinges are cracked with rear hinge crudely repaired with clear tape. Toning and dust-spotting to edges of text block. Soiling to endpapers and foxing to pages throughout. Previous owner's name in pencil to front endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Last ten pages are missing. Includes 6 full page plates. Binding is tender but remains intact.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Memoirs Of Service Afloat: During The War Between The States is a first-hand account of the naval actions during the American Civil War by Raphael Semmes, a Confederate naval officer. The book chronicles Semmes' experiences as captain of the CSS Alabama, a Confederate commerce raider that wreaked havoc on Union shipping in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Semmes also provides insight into the political and military strategies of the Confederacy during the war. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in naval history, the American Civil War, or the Confederacy.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Memoirs Of Service Afloat: During The War Between The States is a first-hand account of the naval actions during the American Civil War by Raphael Semmes, a Confederate naval officer. The book chronicles Semmes' experiences as captain of the CSS Alabama, a Confederate commerce raider that wreaked havoc on Union shipping in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Semmes also provides insight into the political and military strategies of the Confederacy during the war. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in naval history, the American Civil War, or the Confederacy.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14132
- Title
- Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States
- Author
- Semmes, Raphael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kelly, Piet & Co
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1869
Terms of Sale
Underground Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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