The Age of Fighting Sail. The Story of the Naval War of 1812

by C. S. Forester, Gannett

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

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

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