A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron (An Incredibly Rare Survival Residing in the Original, Intact 1899 Publisher's Dust

Langue : anglais

Edité par Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1899

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First Edition, Sixth Impression (October 1899; originally published December 1898). Complete octavo volume (84 pages). A foundational, highly evocative work of late-Victorian naval reporting. Invited by the Admiralty to observe secret British naval manoeuvres in the English Channel, Kipling records a beautifully detailed, technical, and unvarnished insider profile tracking the daily lives, operational strategies, and machinery of the Royal Navy at the dawn of modern steel dreadnought warfare. Richly illustrated to the exterior covers with a striking silhouette graphic of a British battleship at sea executed by renowned maritime artist Norman Wilkinson. This copy preserves its original, authentic October 1899 publisher's printed paper dust jacket. Given that late-19th-century dust wrappers were engineered purely as disposable protection to be cast away at the point of purchase, the architectural survival of this fragile printed ephemera turns this volume into a premier rarity of global importance.The book sits in solid, secure Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's original sky-blue cloth; the panels remain remarkably clean, flat, and square with vibrant black stamped titles. The cloth exhibits just a minor, expected vintage corner bump and the slightest uniform spine-cloth toning. Structurally immaculate; the text block is square, tight, and strong. Internally pristine; the high-quality period paper stock is clean, fresh, and white, completely free from the heavy foxing, thumb-marking, or page-edge browning common to high-circulation maritime books. Completely free of previous owner signatures, annotations, or library markings.The historically vital dust jacket remains in solid Good+ condition. The delicate paper wrapper is complete and structurally intact, exhibiting standard, uniform sunning/age-toning to the spine pane and minor areas of localised vintage surface fade to the panels. Features two short closed tears to the parameter edges ( please see images), but remains structurally robust, holding firm with a limited degree of paper chipping. No structural text loss. 84 pages, followed by a brief multi-page publisher's operational catalogue of Kipling's uniform titles at the rear.

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Titre
A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron (An Incredibly Rare Survival Residing in the Original, Intact 1899 Publisher's Dust
Auteur
Kipling, Rudyard
Éditeur
Macmillan and Co., Limited, London
Année de publication
1899
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
1st Edition
Impression
6th impression
Dimensions
12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Antiquarian & Early English Books, Military, War, Arms, Guns, Vehicles, SHIPPING, Nautical, Maritime Interest

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