Admiral Franklin Buchanan: Fearless Man of Action by Lewis, Charles Lee - 1929

Baltimore, The Norman, Remington Company 1929., 1929. 8vo. Illustrated with b/w halftones and pictorial endpaper maps. Original blue cloth, gilt stamped. Pictorial frontispiece of Franklin Buchanan. Very good. Bookplate of Charles S. Schwartz. No signatures.. Hardcover.

The Norman, Remington Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/ Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 285 pages including some illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The prior owner stamped their name on the second end paper. The pages are otherwise clean with no writing or tears. The copyright page shows 1929 as the published date. The dust jacket is about 98% intact with a couple of small chips along the edges, heavy edgewear and light soiling. We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Baltimore: The Norman Remington Co. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth, map endpages. Minor rubbing to points, foxing to edges. Pages lightly toned. The DJ in mylar is soiled and worn, toned to spine, tape repaired to spine head. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages .

Norman Remington, Baltimore, 1929,. 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xvi,285pp, illustrated, slight browning, text clean and sound, shop label on endpaper, inner hinges cracked but holding, blue cloth gilt, rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Baltimore, MD: The Norman Remington Company, 1929. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. fair to good. 285, illus., color frontis, endpaper maps, footnotes, index, title page creased, small tear p. xiii, slight soiling to a few pages, boards scuffed. Charles Lee Lewis, born in 1886, a prominent naval historian and a professor of English and history at the United States Naval Academy, wrote biographies of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Franklin Buchanan and Stephen Decatur. Franklin Buchanan (September 17, 1800 - May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia. He joined the U.S. Navy on January 28, 1815 and became a midshipman; he was promoted to lieutenant on January 13, 1825, commander on September 8, 1841 and then captain on September 14, 1855. During the 45 years he served in the U.S. Navy, Buchanan had extensive and worldwide sea duty. He commanded… Read More