Eds Phillips John P (3 results)

Brown Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Small, closed tear at head of spine. Small, green mark on back edge of spine. Otherwise in very good condition. Additional shipping fees necessary due to weight of volume.

23 cm. or cloth. xiv,932 pp. tables. references. -(lower corners bumped, otherwise (very) good). 777g.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on front cover; 105pp. Chafed at joints and board edges; lightly soiled overall; just Very Good. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by James Morris Morgan, with an original poem: "To Ensign John G Phelps, USNR from James Morris Morgan / formerly a [?] midshipman in the late C.S. Navy," with ten lines of verse following, beginning "Three cheers! cried Mr. Morgan." This was Marquand's first book appearance, foreshadowing a long and distinguished career in fiction, including a Pulitzer Prize novel, The Late George Apley (1938). Admiral Clark, whose anecdotes are recounted here, was "one of the best-known and most admired officers in the U.S. Navy" (DAB), over a career that spanned nearly forty-five years and included service in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. James Morris Morgan (1845-1928) was a junior Naval officer during the Civil War; his memoir, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (1917) is considered a high-spot of Civil War literature. Signed.…