Author of the first scholarly history of the United States Navy, James Fenimore Cooper had long hoped to commemorate the American Navy by representing its fleet in action. Since no such fleet existed in 1841, he reverted to the Jacobite War of 1745 when the great British and French fleets contested in the English Channel and the colonial and British fleets were one. Ever the experimenter in fiction, Cooper achieved a metaphysical dimension by assigning personal attributes to the ships in combat, and he also implicitly ...
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Author of the first scholarly history of the United States Navy, James Fenimore Cooper had long hoped to commemorate the American Navy by representing its fleet in action. Since no such fleet existed in 1841, he reverted to the Jacobite War of 1745 when the great British and French fleets contested in the English Channel and the colonial and British fleets were one. Ever the experimenter in fiction, Cooper achieved a metaphysical dimension by assigning personal attributes to the ships in combat, and he also implicitly recalled his long friendship with Commodore William Branford Shubrick (much later, Rear Admiral Shubrick) in the story of the friendship between his two admirals--Oates and Bluewater--of the British Navy. The result is an intriguingly realistic romance.
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Add this copy of The Two Admirals: a Tale to cart. $12.00, good condition, Sold by BookHouse On-Line rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Donohue Brothers.
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Good+ No Dust Jacket. No date listed, circa 1890. Published by the Donohue Brothers of Chicago/New York. 424 pages. No dust jacket (none issued? ). Shelfwear is very light. Faint, even sunning to spine. Age-toned pages, previous owner's name on front endpaper. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Add this copy of The Two Admirals: a Tale to cart. $14.94, good condition, Sold by M Godding Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Devizes, WILTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1887 by George Routledge and Sons.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
Add this copy of The Two Admirals a Tale to cart. $14.95, good condition, Sold by Village Bookmarket rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palmyra, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1882 by D. Appleton and Company.
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Good with no dust jacket. Cover has soil and wear with fraying at head and tail of spine. Soiled closed edge. Library sicker on front pastedown and a achipped and stained front endpaper. Hinge paper cracked. Age-toned text and sound binding. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package.; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 576 pages.
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Very Good. #360 of 1000 numbered sets, red boards, title label on spine faded, tissue guarded illustrations, top edge gilt, no names or bookplates, part of the "Writings of J. Fenimore Cooper" set.
Add this copy of The two admirals: a tale, with an introduction by Susan to cart. $16.00, very good condition, Sold by MadScience Enterprises rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Coalmont, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by Houghton Mifflin and Co. /The Riverside Press.
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1884, Houghton Mifflin and Co. /The Riverside Press
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin and Co. /The Riverside Press
Published:
1884
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English
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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. 504 p. Smooth black leather spine and corners, and marbled boards with matching marbled page edges. Tight binding, pages clean and unmarked. Noticeable wear to edges and corners of cover. Spine has "Sea Tales" in prominent gold lettering, with "Two Admirals" in a smaller font. Possibly one of a set?
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 511 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good plus dust jacket. First Printing thus. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. NOTE: One reviewer stated: "The print in this was copied and is very hard to read. It is a good story by an excellent author. Too bad it represented in such a poor way.". The copy I have has nice, clear, bold type that is easy to read. I am not sure what the reviewer was referring to. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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