The Texas Navy: In Forgotten Battles and Shirtsleeve Diplomacy (with signed letter laid in)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937. First Edition. Black and white plates, endpaper maps. Cloth hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 224 pages.
An authentic and carefully documented account of the Lone Star Republic's thirteen men-of-war and their often-overlooked importance in the control of the Gulf of Mexico in Alamo-San Jacinto campaign of 1836. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Laid into this copy is a 1972 signed typewritten letter from the author presenting this copy to a Mr. McLellan, in which he notes with surprise that his book "is on the rare book lists" and that he has seen a copy listed for $70. That by way of advising Mr. McLellan to "not lend it to absent minded friends who forget to return borrowed books."
Ref. HOWES H485.
Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine. Minor rubs and shallow bumps to extremities. Jacket is clipped at lower front flap and has shallow edge chips and few short, closed edge tears. Handsome copy. Overall near fine in a near fine, price-clipped jacket.
Item #2144
Price: $250