Mr. Lincoln's Admirals by MACARTNEY, Clarence Edward

Funk & Wagnalls. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Spine faded.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 335 pages .

Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1956. 2nd print. very good/very good. NOT an ex library book. 335 pages. Dust jacket has minimal wear on edges, price is not clipped.

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,… Read More

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 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.

Funk & Wagnalls, 1956. First Edition, 1 on copyright pa. Hardcover. very good/very good. NOT an ex library book.Prior owner return mail label top of front endpaper. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has 1/2" tears, tape on reverse side, rubbing on edges, price is not clipped

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1956. Hardcover. 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.