PUBLISHER: Published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, New York.
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DATE: 1940.
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DESCRIPTION: By John Philips Cranwell and William Bowers Crane. First edition. Ex-libris. Pages xiv, 427, quarto (4to). Hardcover with beige cloth, gold lettering and ship embossed on cover, red and gold printed on the spine. <br><br> An excerpt from a review published in "The American Historical Review", Volume 46, Issue 3, April 1941, Pages 674–675: "Though Mclay gave to the Baltimore Privateers a place in the sun along with the other privateers of the Revolution and the War of 1812, it has remained for Messrs. Cranwell and Crane to present to the reading public the first full-length account of the Baltimoreans as privateersmen in our second war with England. In approaching their subject the authors realized that they were dealing with a field concerning which there is much popular misunderstanding; and they are, therefore, at considerable pains to clear the way with definitions and historical background. They carefully distinguish between privateersmen and pirates, privateers and public cruisers, privateers and armed merchantmen sailing under letters of marque, Baltimore clippers (schooner-rigged) and the clipper ships (square-rigged) of subsequent decades. They discuss the strategy and tactics of privateering and agree with Mahan that 'la guerre de course,' whether by public or private-armed vessels, cannot achieve decisive results against a sea power capable of fleet action."
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CONDITION: Good condition, minor shelf wear and some soiling on the covers. Ex-libris.
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