Montgomery and the Portsmouth by Rogers, Fred Blackburn - 1958

J. Howell, 1958. First Edition. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. **HARDCOVER** Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Portsmouth Marine Society, 1990-12. Hardcover. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

San Francisco: John Howell, 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. ix, 145. Frontis. subject portrait. Title page printed in three colors. Illustrated with six drawings and document facsimiles. Appendices listing commanders and assignments of the Portsmouth. Notes, index. Bound in navy blue cloth with sloop of war on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge untrimmed. In the publisher's original clear acetate dust jacket. Edition limited to 750, printed by Lawton Kennedy. Leaves uncut/unopened after p. 74. Letterpress bookplate of bibliophile Roger K. Larson. The third volume in John Howell's series. Commander John Berrien Montgomery witnessed the Bear Flag Revolt in San Francisco Bay during the Mexican-American War, and his detachment raised the U.S. flag in Yerba Buena on July 9, 1846. Illustrations include Sam Brannan imprints from Yerba Buena.

Portsmouth Marine Society, 1990-12-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, xiii + 145 pages with intertextual black and white illustrations, gray cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white BUT light foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket but light foxing to the black side, and with the original price present

John Howell/Lawton Kennedy, 1958. First Edition. Very Good/Missing. Signed by Other. navy blue cloth with gilt title and cover illustration, octavo, 145 pages, portrait of John Berrien Montgomery as frontispiece; boards are crisp with slight edge wear to tail of spine, fore edges are age toned, pages are a crisp white. Inscribed on front free endpaper by Warren R Howell, president of the firm started by his father, John Howell. Limited printing of 750 copies. Background on the early history of California, Bear Flag Revolt, and establishing military possession with the raising of the American flag at Yerba Buena, Alta California, on July 9, 1846, by the U.S. Navy from the "Portsmouth", under Commander John B. Montgomery

Boston: Portsmouth Marine Society, 1990 Book. New. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. Illsutrated "unusual book relating to Piscataqua, as well as, California history". .

San Francisco: John Howell Books. A clean, crisp, hardcover limited edition (750 total) copy in very good condition; faint shelf wear, text edges lightly age-toned. Clear plastic cover with small chip at head. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1958.

John Howell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1958. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Limited edition of 700 copies. 2 pages show edgetears, presumably from an attempt to edgecut pages. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Portsmouth Marine Society, 1990-12-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.