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Doubleday & Company, 1956. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. The binding is tight; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Michael Joseph, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1957. First Edition. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with minor defects. Moderate issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

NEW YORK: Doubleday, 1956. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. fine/vg. a nice clean quality hardcover and jacket with endpaper maps,285 pages..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G-; gray spine with black and white text; spine and head edge to jacket has sunned noticeably; some minor chips to edges; inside jacket shows slight toning; small tape mend to head edge, inside jacket; cloth exterior has modest shelf wear; good, intact binding; straight boards; textblock exterior edges have mild, yellowish toning; pictorial endpapers; interior good; pp 284. Mainstream of America Series. 1358076. FP New Rockville Stock.

Doubleday, 1956 284 pp. Part of the Mainstream of America series. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey cloth boards witha handsome bluel ozenge on spine are clean and undamaged. DJ is bright and intact with light shelfwear at spine ends. Now in protective mylar. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubelday & Company, Inc, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Good Hardcover w/ Fair Dustjacket; tan spine with black lettering; DJ has fading, discoloration and extensive creasing and tears to top and bottom edges and corners; boards show slight fading, some creasing to spine edges and a few divots at bottom edges; binding tight; text block clean; maps on endpapers; 284 pp. Mainstream of America Series, Lewis Gannett (Editor). 1349901. FP New Rockville Stock.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956. Early printing. HC w DJ. PC VG+/Good+. Grey cloth, gilt titling bright, light edgewear, some fading to edges, map-illustrated endpapers, unmarked, clean, sound. Unclipped DJ ($5.00) edgeworn w nicks/chips/tears, sun fading to spine. Mainstream of America series. Edited by Lewis Gannett. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

michael joseph london 1957. first edition 255pp GD+ (boards rubbed and marked, corners bruised, spine sl.sunned and scuffed, spine sl.shaky, light foxing & browning) lacks d/w

From the front dust jacket flap: "...United States had three brilliant commanders, Rogers, Decatur, and Hull, and it was their job to keep the Constitution, the President, and the one or two other ships that made up the entire U.S. fleet busy harassing the British until a United States Navy could be built. Congress limited the great ship designer, Joshua Humphreys, to build ships no larger than frigates - with the result that he made them the best in the world and the frigate became the fighting cock of the sea."Book: Very Good- condition. Gray cloth with gilt title on upper cover. Blue label with gilt title on spine. Back cover has a partial crease near top corner. Spine edges have a slight bit of wear. Please see photos. Endpapers illustrated with black & white world map. Inscription to previous owner in pencil on front endpaper, 1957. Pages are clean - except for pages 28-29 that had a newspaper page from the Peoria Journal Star - Thurs., May 11, 1967 with unrelated stories/ads. The newspaper… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. 254 pp. Index. B/w plates. Map inside boards. . Hard bound. book good.

Michael Joseph, London. 1957. 8vo, 255pp, with illustrations in black and white. A good hardback copy in a chipped price-clipped dust jacket with closed tears. Foxed and tanned fore edges and offsetting to endpapers.

michael joseph london 1957. first edition 254pp in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, VG+ (minor shelf wear to head & foot edge of boards with a smll area of rubbing at lower rear corner, spine v.sl.sunned with small bruise above foot and sl scuffing to extrem., small amount of marking to front board, v.sl.foxing to ep's) in VG- d/w (spine sunned with small hole above foot and sl.chipped head & foot, corners rounded, sl.wear to edges woth small tear to upper front)

New York, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1956. [History] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2]; 284; [2]. Publisher's light mint green cloth with gilt tooling to front board, blue label to spine titled in gilt, typographic dust-jacket designed by Sydney Butchkes. Cartographic endpapers depicting the Pacific Ocean. Toning and soiling to edges of textblock, ex-libris stamp to verso of flyleaf, some soiling to front board, rolling to spine, bumping to top edge, some chipping to top edge of jacket, price-clipped, sunning to spine. Very good. In 1812, England was Queen of the Seas, but the US had three innovative commanders to fight against the established power. The English boats soon came under threat with the introduction of the lighter American ships designed by Joshua Humphrey's. These events inform the backbone of this book, written by the author of the 'Captain Hornblower Series'.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956. First edition of Forester's account of the naval battles of the War of 1812. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks).