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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A history of American privateers.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

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burt franklin, 1968 hardback book in near fine condition,blue cloth,reprint of 1899 edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

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New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1899. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior. Record # 852376

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, July 2007. Hardcover. Like New. unmarked copy

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Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. Reprint edition, presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Good/No DJ present. xl, 519, [5] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Front cover has some staining. Edgar Stanton Maclay (18 April 1863 - 2 November 1919) was an American journalist and historian. Maclay was born 18 April 1863 in Foochow, China. Until her death in 1879, his mother tutored him in preparation for college. Beginning in 1881, after a year of further preparatory study at Syracuse, New York, he entered the classics program at Syracuse University, graduating in 1885. He then researched American history for over a year in England, France and Germany. He was a reporter on the Brooklyn Times (1886-1890) and on the New York Tribune (1891-1893); he served on the editorial staff of the Tribune (1893-1895) and on that of the New York Sun (1895-1896). In 1896 he was appointed lighthouse keeper at Old Field Point, and in 1901 received an appointment at the New York Navy Yard. He edited the… Read More

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A History of American Privateers.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006-07-09. Paperback. Used:Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 594 pages. 8.30x5.50x1.60 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. This book, first published in 1899, explores the significant role of American privateers during the Anglo-American wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Privateers provided essential reinforcements for the small American navy in attacking and capturing foreign merchant ships during this key period of maritime history.

D. Appleton. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1899. 1st Edition (Unstated). Hardcover. *No edition or printing stated. Likely 1st edition. Only two pages have margin lines. General wear to spine. Scratches on cover. Pages clean. Front endpaper and flyleaf pages were ripped off. Good condition for the age.; 519 pages .

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1899. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Front hinge weak, ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper, minor pencil notes, related papers laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. xl, 519 pp. "A hidden history of some of the people and vessels that helped shape the earliest victories of the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Told in invigorating fashion, this book whisks the reader across decades and hundreds of miles from Charleston, South Carolina to the harbor of New York." "Privateers were part of naval warfare from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Some privateers have been particularly influential in the annals of history. Sometimes the vessels would be commissioned into regular service as warships.

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