Fox, Gustavus V.

Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865. Edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright.

New York: Naval History Society, 1918. First edition, 1/1200 copies (Vol I #993, Vol. X # 21) printed at the De Vinne Press, Publications of the Naval Society, Vols. IX & X. 8vo. xvi, 440; xx, 492 pp. Engraved portraits of the author and admirals Farragut and Porter. Nevins I, p. 224: "An excellent source for information on the strategic and administrative operations of the Union navy and on the principal commanders." Very good. Original half-parchment and boards (soiled), t.e.g, others untrimmed. (10031). Item #63474

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