Queens of the Western Ocean. The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines by Cutler, Carl C.; Nimitz, Chester W - 1961

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1961. 1967 reprint of 1961 edition. FINE in NEAR FINE price intact dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages and map endpapers are fine; handsomely bound in ivory cloth hardcover, title gilt stamped on navy blue panels on spine. Cover is fresh and unworn. Binding and hinges firm and straight. Unclipped pictorial jacket is clean and complete - paper a bit wavy along spine but no scuffs, no tears, chips or creases. A history of American packet ships, the men who conceived and made them. the captains and seamen who sailed them, and "an account of how the American merchant marine, paced by passenger liners, in the first half of the nineteenth century climaxed two centuries of unparalleled progress with a prodigious burst of speed , to overtake and by-pass the greatest sea power in history." Foreword by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. Illustrated with black & white reproductions as well as several ship and sail plans. 7-1/4 x 10-1/2". xxi + 672 pages, including detailed Index. A heavy volume that may require additional postage for overseas or priority mailing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.