A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee", from the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun; The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War
by H. H. Lewis, Editor; introduction by Rear Admiral W. T Sampson; Russell Doubleday
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good -. A unique fictionalized account of life aboard an American warship adapted from the diary of Russell Doubleday. Editor also acknowledges C. B. Hayward and Allan H. Seaman 'for use of notes and diaries'. With b&w photographic illustration by J. Harper Skillen, Stewart Flagg, George Yardley, W.G. Wood and E. Howe Stockwell; plus four color plates including the title page. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 312 pages + black and white plates, illustrated gray cloth, gilt spine titles, and white decoration to front cover. A very good (minus) hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear, some minor exterior soiling, rubbing at the corners and at top and bottom edges of the back strip (not quite starting to fray); hinges and binding solid, paper clean, lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket. A nice reading copy.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39964
- Title
- A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee", from the Diary of Number Five of the After Port Gun; The Yarn of the Cruise and Fights of the Naval Reserves in the Spanish-American War
- Author
- H. H. Lewis, Editor; introduction by Rear Admiral W. T Sampson; Russell Doubleday
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & McClure
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Maritime; Spanish American War; Fiction; Historical; Naval
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About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
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- Reading Copy
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