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    By Roy Norton
    New York   D. Appleton and Company
    7.5" by 5" ix, [5], 349, [7]pp
    A very scarce work depicting the author's thoughts and warnings on the state of United States' navy defences pre-World War I.
    By Roy Norton

    1908 The Vanishing Fleets

    New York   D. Appleton and Company
    7.5" by 5" ix, [5], 349, [7]pp
    A very scarce work depicting the author's thoughts and warnings on the state of United States' navy defences pre-World War I.
    £140.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 903Y45
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    A first edition of this very scarce work.

    Illustrated with monochrome frontispiece and three monochrome plates. Collated complete. 

    With two leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear. 

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. 

    American newspaperman and author of pulp fiction, Roy Norton regularly contributed to magazines like Cosmopolitan and The Popular Magazine.

    In his author's note, Norton makes his disdain of the state of the United States' war defences very clear, and reflects this throughout the story.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with fading and slight bumping to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Very Good Indeed

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