Verlag: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1894
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Octavo, xiii, 640 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Very Good slipcase. Spine is off white with no text. Slipcase has some scuffing with a library identification sticker. Boards have shelf wear, bumping to corners, major rubbing, and some tearing along the spine edges. Text block has several pages loose from the binding, pen/marker writing on the front paste down, and binding is shaken. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1372958. Special Collections.
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 136321182X ISBN 13: 9781363211821
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: ARKOSE PR, 2015
ISBN 10: 1345064195 ISBN 13: 9781345064193
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2019
ISBN 10: 0530514222 ISBN 13: 9780530514222
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: ARKOSE PR, 2015
ISBN 10: 1344709931 ISBN 13: 9781344709934
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1894
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). A complete two volume set of this controversial work on the History of the United States Navy, by Edgar Stanton Maclay. Edgar Stanton Maclay was an American journalist and historian, who worked as a reporter for the 'Brooklyn Times' and 'New York Tribune' and served on the editorial staff of the 'Tribune' and the 'New York Sun'. Whilst appointed as the lighthouse keeper at Old Field Point in 1901, Maclay received an appointment at the New York Navy Yard, and hence edited the 'Journal of William Maclay', and produced this work, the 'History of the United States Navy'. The controversy surrounding this work (that ultimately brought about Maclay's dismissal from government employ) was largely due to a passage in the work that stigmatized Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley as a "caitiff, poltroon and coward" for his conduct in the naval fight off Santiago, Cuba on 3 July 1898. For this, Maclay's dismissal was ordered by President Roosevelt in 1901. Featuring publisher's advertisements to the rear of volume I. Copiously illustrated throughout with monochromatic maps, plates and in-text illustrations. In the publisher's original cloth binding with embossed copper panel to the front board of each volume. Externally, bumped to extremities and head and tail of spines, resulting in small splits to head of spine volume I. Slight handling marks to rear boards. Front hinge strained after frontispiece, volume II. Internally generally firmly bound, slightly strained in places. Page 625/6 volume II detached but present. Pages very slightly age toned to edges but bright and clean throughout. Offsetting to page 184 and 185, volume I. Ink mark to front free-endpaper, volume I. Closed tear to fore edge of page 401/2, volume II. Very Good. book.