A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron

Kipling, Rudyard

Published by MacMillan & Co, London, 1898

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London: MacMillan & Co., 1898 84 pp perfect-bound in blue illustrated paper. From the library of C. Lovat Frazer, English artist, designer and author. The phrase 'A Fleet in Being' referrs to a fleet in port which extends control of the surrounding seas just by its presence without leaving port. The book will appeal to those interested in naval warfare and in particular the development of the British fleet at the turn of the 20th Century. Text is clean and tight , Contemporary owner's name on half-title, no other interior markings. Covers have soil and edgewear, chips to spine ends front cover detached but present Double-cased in blue buckram with gold-stamped titles along spine. ASSOCIATION BOOKPLATE. First Edition. Cased Softcover. Good/Very Good +. 5" x 8".

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A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron

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MacMillan & Co, London

Publication Date

1898

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Paperback

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First Edition.

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Good

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Very Good +

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