THE SECRET SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES IN EUROPE OR HOW THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS WERE EQUIPPED. With a New Introduction

by Philip Van Doren Stern by James D. Bulloch

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York, London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959 . Octavo, two volumes, illustrated with 75 photographs, prints and engravings, cloth. Later edition. A new edition of a now rare work first published in 1884. The 12-page introduction by Stern makes the argument that the largely successful Union blockade of Southern ports was the decisive factor in the outcome of the Civil War. A fine copy in the original slipcase, which is a bit foxed

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