Plummer Norman H (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good++. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. 2000. Fine and unread condition clean tight and bright.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). 208 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 22.25cm. Dust jacket with a few scuffs and nicks at edges; dj presented in a mylar protector. Blue boards with vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board; light bumping to spine heel. At top of front pastedown is six-line ink gift inscription dated fro December 1985 to Charles and Frances Summersell from "Alan" [contributor Dr. Alan Thompson]; Alan Thompson's ink signature beside his printed name at top of page 53 which is start of his essay "Transportation: Riverboats and Railroads of Shreveport" concluding on page 61; also laid-in at front endpapers and further establishing provenance is a Christmas card with four paragraph letter with thanks and family notes from Alan Thompson. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. With b/w photographs ands illustrations throughout, Preface, Introduction, Contributors, Bibliography, and Index. Features a total of thirteen essays by twelve different contributors (editor Ann McLaurin contributing two essays) divided among eight chapters titled as: "The Age of Jefferson and Jackson," "Manifest Destiny," "The Sectional Crisis," "The Era of Reconstruction," "The Gilded Age," "The Progressive Era," "The Interwar Years," and "The Post World War II Years." Inscribee Charles Grayson Summersell (1908-1987) taught at the University of Alabama from 1935-1978 where he chaired the History Department from 1954-1971. The university established The Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History in 1997 with an endowment initiated by the professor's wife Frances S. Summersell. ISBN 0917898141.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. map; b/s photos, illus (illustrator). 1st Edition. stapled blue pictorial wraps; 48 clean, unmarked pages.

Illustrated. (illustrator). First Edition. Very Good (crease back cover; contents clean & tight). 8vo., beige pictorial wraps; 105 pages.

Kartoniert-O. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage,. 93 Seiten, gr.8°, mit reichh. Fotomat., gutes Exemplar. P33540_Seefahrt Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This blue paper bound pamphlet is in very good condition and the 49 pages are securely held by staples. It is unmarked and tight, marred only by sunning of the edge. Here is the little known story of Wickes, a Maryland Eastern Shore native and American naval hero of the Revolutionary War.