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Mr. Lincoln's Admirals
by MACARTNEY, Clarence Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. 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 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88335
- Title
- Mr. Lincoln's Admirals
- Author
- MACARTNEY, Clarence Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Civil War (U.S.); >>Military and Military Leaders;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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