Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 65
BLANDING, Stephen F. Recollections of a Sailor Boy; or, The...
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BLANDING, Stephen F. Recollections of a Sailor Boy; or, The Cruise of the Gunboat Louisiana. Providence: E. A. Johnson & Co., 1886. 8vo. 330pp. FIRST EDITION. Original dark green-blue cloth blind stamped with Greek key roll frame, spine titled in gilt (corners gently rubbed, joints starting; else clean). Provenance: with pencil ownership signature of James Burrill Angell (president of University of Michigan from 1871?1909). "Excellent material on the enlistment and subsequent daily life as a sailor on a blockading vessel." Nevins I, p. 219.
