DERELICTS: An Account Of Ships Lost At Sea In General Commercial Traffic and a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast 1861 - 1865
by Sprunt, James
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- Condition
- Very Good
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Wilmington, N.C.: Printed by The Lord baltimore Press, Baltimore, MD, 1920. 1st edition. Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., xii, 304 pp., illustrated with a frontispiece plate (with tissue guard) Blue decorated cloth, with 3 masted ship in gilt on the front board. Light edge wear. Text paper beginning to tone. Frontispiece foxied. "Undocumented accounts written or recorded by a former purser on blockade runners." Nevins I-235.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26676
- Title
- DERELICTS: An Account Of Ships Lost At Sea In General Commercial Traffic and a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast 1861 - 1865
- Author
- Sprunt, James
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Printed by The Lord baltimore Press, Baltimore, MD
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, N.C.
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Civil War, Naval, Navy, nevins
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