Memoirs of Service Afloat
by SEMMES,Raphael
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Fair. [FIRST EDITION] Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co,1869. Hardcover. issued without dust jacket. 833 pages illustrated with steel engraved portraits, 6 color lithographs, etc. by Allan C. Redwood. 8vo, orig. cloth. First edition of the most famous naval memoir of the Civil War by the captain of the C.S. Sumter and Alabama. In somewhat poor condition: lacking spine strip, boards loose, foxing and staining largely to margins of plates, text age-toned, old owner inscriptions. Binder's copy or frame the plates? (nyj)
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- gStrum (US)
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- 00-R1XQ-FRGL
- Title
- Memoirs of Service Afloat
- Author
- SEMMES,Raphael
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- Hardcover
- Product_type
- 1
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Poor
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- Fair
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