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USS Constellation: From Frigate to Sloop of War
by Footner, Geoffrey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1557502846
- ISBN 13
- 9781557502841
- Seller
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About This Item
Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2003, hardcover, xiii-367 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, tiny dampstain at heel of spine. Dustjacket in new Brodart sleeve. With great authority the noted shipbuilding scholar asserts that the USS Constellation, now berthed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, is indeed a much-rebuilt version of the original frigate ordered built by George Washington himself in 1797, and America's oldest extant warship. Illustrated throughout with drawn figures. Appended: Author's Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9781557502841
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10500
- Title
- USS Constellation: From Frigate to Sloop of War
- Author
- Footner, Geoffrey
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1557502846
- ISBN 13
- 9781557502841
- Publisher
- US Naval Institute Press
- Place of Publication
- Annapolis
- This edition first published
- October 2002
- Keywords
- Constellation (Frigate); History; Military; Naval
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