1888 The Story of The American Sailor in Active Service on Merchant Vessel And Man-of-War

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

Elbridge Streeter Brooks was an American author, editor, and critic, renowned as an author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction for children, much of it on historical or patriotic subjects. Copiously illustrated throughout with numerous monochromatic in-text illustrations and plates. This work also contains a list of 'The Best Hundred Books on the American Sailor' complied by Brooks, to the rear of the text.