First edition, first impression. 412pp, with numerous black and white plate illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards with red decorations and red lettering front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge sprayed red. 4to. Cloth a little rubbed at corners and spine ends. Fore and lower text block edges a little toned. Hint of toning in margins of endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Handsome and imposing volume, finely produced covering the whole history of USA sea navigation, privateers, naval forces and battles, policing the seas, yacht racing, piracy and more.
