Crosby Ralph Mitchell (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY CROSBY on the half-title page as follows: "To Sarah Crosby McKenzie: Ssh, listen! Just between us Crosbys, the/ book isn't much good. But I'm glad you/ wanted it just because it was written by/ your clansman/ Ralph M. Crosby/ "Sax"/ 9-16-40." 8vo. (21 cm.) [6]vii-viii[2]11-366p. Endpapers are maps. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with drawings by William Sanderson [b. 1913, cartoonist for ST. LOUIS STAR TIMES]. Very minor wear to extremities, spine slightly faded, spine gilt dulled, cover gilt bright, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. An account of Commander Oliver Hazard Perry and the battle in Misery Bey. "One day I discovered that my maternal step-grandmother was a second or third cousin of Commodore Perry, and thereafter I felt quite entitled to stick out my chest and proudly claim close relationship to the great man." [from the Preface]. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. This work is the author's creation of a war story drawn from his childhood experiences when his father was chaplain of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Erie, Pennsylvania. Then years later, when he was an enlisted man and commissioned officer in the navy, the lore and traditions of the service lent tales of sea-fairing men. He used a number of historical characters in an attempt to draw a picture of some of the indignities that led up to the war. Illustrations are included. The endpapers serve as maps. This HARDCOVER copy is clean and solid. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, inscribed on the half-title page. William Sanderson (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…