Paul Jones: Founder Of The American Navy: A History

Buell, Augustus C. [Morison, Samuel Eliot]

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1902

About this Item

Octavo, [two volumes], xv, 328pp; vii, 379pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spines, illustrated gilt medallions stamped on front covers. Top edge gilt. Held in custom acetate dust jackets. Solid text blocks, some pages unopened, light rubbing to corners, bookseller's label on front free endpaper, both near fine examples. Inscribed by Morison on front free endpaper of Volume I: "S.E. Morison / I bought this fake biography just for the pleasure of annotating the fake parts in red. It is one of the most dishonest biographies ever written." Morison continues through the text with various notes on nearly every page, with comments like "fake," "pooh" and "never happened." Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a 1964 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Morison is best remembered for his 15-volume set titled "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II" and biographies of Christopher Columbus and John Paul Jones. His biography of Jones was inspired by all the faults he saw within this work written by Augustus C. Buell, a controversial author who frequently plagiarized and fabricated his biographies. Seller Inventory # 12478

Bibliographic Details

Title: Paul Jones: Founder Of The American Navy: A ...

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1902

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: From the personal collection of Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, Ph.D., Paul Jones: Founder of the American Navy by Augustus C. Buell, inscribed and annotated by Morison.

Condition: Near fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: Later Edition.