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Jonathan Cape, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 1939. First Published. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Jonathan Cape, 1939. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:

Yale University press, 1944.. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Literature, biography, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Yale Univ, 1939., 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Yale University Press, 1941. Second printing. Good++/Good++. Hardcover: Cloth binding. damp stains in gutters only. rest of binding is good. Title in gold on spine. Pages and edges are lightly foxed. Frontispiece. This is the biography of the American Naval Officer who had more influence on the navies of the modern world than any other man of his time. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Edgewear and chipping. Rubbed and chipped corners. Chipped along upper spine edge. Soil on spine. Rubbed and split along outside edge. Photo illustrated front and back covers. Attractive /desirable copy in protective mylar. .

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. 2d Printing. xiv, 380p., b/w illus., original blue cloth.

Johnathan Cape, 1939. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. 351 pages illustrated. A fine clean copy lacking a dust jacket. No previous ownership markings.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Brian Winch's library copy. Includes previous owner's inscription. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 351 p.: front. (port.) plates; 25 cm. Subjects: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) 1840-1914. Genre: Biography.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. Half Leather. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xiv, 380 pp., frontis, plates. First edition. Finely bound in contemporary blue/green levant goatskin with corners and marbled paper over boards; top edge gilt. A very handsome binding, though the spine has evenly toned to tan; light rubbing including some abrasion to the marbled paper over the rear board; contents clean and binding sound. Laid in is a typed letter signed by Puleston on Navy Department letterhead to Confederate Captain Samuel A'Court Ashe (1840-1938) thanking him for his reminiscences of Mahan, Ashe's lifelong friend. Additionally, Puleston asks Ashe in this letter a series of questions. Puleston writes, "I am trying very hard to get a good picture in my own mind of Mahan as a Midshipman, and I think you are the only person that can really help me." And surely this is true due to both Ashe and Mahan's friendship and the fact that there couldn't have been many alive who could speak with first-hand… Leer más

Jonathan Cape,, [1939]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt anchor, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.