The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1897. First printing. Two fold-out maps. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 314 pages. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with blue-black coated endpapers, gilt-stamped spine titles, top edge gilt, and a silhouette of battleship USS Iowa in gilt on upper board. Minor extremity rubs, shallow bumps. Faint prior ownership info pencilled on front free endpaper. A handsome, near fine copy overall.
A collection of eight articles by Mahan on various aspects of America's naval position in terms of strategy and geography, which appeared in various magazines between 1890 and 1897. One of the articles from 1893 identifies Hawaii as the future of sea power for the United States. A fine collection of Mahan, published on the eve of the Spanish-American War.
HATTENDORF A5a.
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