Hardcover, original paperback edition rebound in quarter cloth with marbled paper over boards, leather title label to spine, original blue paper covers bound with rest of book in order, previous owner's bookplate, small bookseller's sticker of Buyveau & Chevillet of Paris on inside cover of original paper cover, some light shelfwear and rubbing to edges of boards but otherwise in Very Good condition. Third Printing of First edition, pp 84. "Some thirty of her Majesty?s men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruis-ers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship, but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry one wonderful summer evening in ?97."
Title: A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
Location Published: MacMillan & Co. Ltd.: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+
Type: Book
Categories: Maritime & Naval History
Seller ID: 009620
