The New Book of American Ships
New York: Stokes, 1926. Second edition. Hardcover. Large octavo hardcover in black cloth lettered in gilt and with gray image of a battleship front cover. 428 pp. With twelve full page color plates and 472 illsutrations from photographs. About very good, spine rubbed. 1927 gift inscrition top portion of front free endpaper. Handsome survey of American ships active in the 1920s, including battleships, dreadnoughts, destroyers, liners, square-riggers, ocean motorboats, yachts, merchant marine freight carriers, etc. With additional chapters on nautical training ships, "How The Ships Talk", the round the world tour of the "White Fleet" of battleships under President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. naval Academy, ceremonies and uniforms, airships and aircraft carriers, etc. Very Good. Item #E29777
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