Item #11328 The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]. Howard I. CHAPELLE.
The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]
The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]
The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]
The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]
The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]
The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]

The History of the American Sailing Navy The Ships and Their Development [SIGNED by the author]

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. xxiv, 558. Frontis. color reproduction of a painting of the ships President and Endymion by George C. Wales. Illustrated throughout with black & white illustrations and fold-out plans of American naval ships. Appendices. Index. Bookplate on front pastedown; signature of George Naish, director National Maritime Museum, on front free endpaper. A typewritten letter from London bookseller Maggs Bros. to G. Naish of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, dated 1949, is laid in. Bound in sand-colored cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine over blue title-block and blue sailing ship illustration printed on cover. Slight rubbing to edges and foxing to spine. In the dust jacket, price of $10.00 intact on front flap. Dust jacket shows sunning to spine; rubbed edges. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #11328

Signed by the author on front free endpaper. A small folded catalog of ship plans, available for purchase from W. W. Norton, is also laid in. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival protector.

Price: $75.00

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