SEA of GLORY; Nathaniel Philbrick / America's Voyage of Discovery The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838 - 1842 by Philbrick, Nathaniel - 2003

New York: Viking Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. maps. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, illustrated with 8 B&W maps, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with faint silhouette of a ship within a red field, xxv + [xxvi-xxvii: double-spread map] + 452 pages. Nathaniel Philbrick (b.1956 - ) published In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2001), which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. David McCullough called it "A treasure of a book." It was followed by SEA OF GLORY (2003), which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder markings.