Civil War Blockade Runners, Collection of Books

Lot 63

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Civil War Blockade Runners, Collection of Books

Lot of 26.

Porter, David D. Admiral U.S. Navy. The Naval History of the Civil War. Red bound cover with a facsimile signed lithograph of the author. New York: Sherman Publishing Company, 1886. 843 pp.

Robinson, William Morris, Jr. The Confederate Privateers. First edition with original cloth cover and scarce dust jacket. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928. 372 pp.

Cochran, Hamilton. Blockade Runners of the Confederacy. First edition with the blue cloth spine and gray cover. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril Company, Inc., 1958. 350 pp.

Carse, Robert. Blockade: The Civil War at Sea. First edition with its original dust jacket. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1958. 379 pp.

Parker, Foxhall. The Battle of Mobile Bay, and the Capture of Forts Powell, Gaines, and Morgan. First edition with a bright blue cloth cover and gold lettering. Boston: Williams & Co., 1878. 136 pp.

Boyer, Samuel P. Naval Surgeon. Original blue cloth cover. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. 390 pp.

Bernath, Stuart L. Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy. Blue cloth cover and original dust jacket. Berkley: University of California Press, 1970.

Horner, Dave. The Blockade Runners: True Tales of Running the Yankee Blockade of the Confederate Coast. Original blue cloth cover. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1968. 241 pp.

Horner, Dave. The Blockade Runners: True Tales of Running the Yankee Blockade of the Confederate Coast. Original blue cloth cover with original dust jacket. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1968. 241 pp.

Sprunt, James. Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear. 1661-1896. Reprint with blue cloth cover and gold lettering. Spartenburg, South Carolina: The Reprint Company, 1975. 215 pp.

Vandiver, Frank E. Confederate Blockade Running Through Bermuda. Blue cloth cover with embossed image of a ship in silver and the title text in gold. Austin: University of Texas Press. 115 pp.

Hobart-Hampton, Augustus C. Captain. Never Caught: Personal Adventures Connected with Twelve Successful Trips in Blockade-Running During the American Civil War. 1863-1864. Printed green paper cover with brown lettering. Carolina Beach, North Carolina: The Blockade Runner Museum, 1967. 59 pp.

Watson, William. The Adventures of a Blockade Runner, Or, Trade in Time of War. 2 copies with the original red bound illustrated cover. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 824 pp.

Wilkinson, J. Captain in the Confederate Navy. The Narrative of a Blockade Runner. 8 books with the original decorated covers in either orange, brown, or green. New York: Sheldon Company, 1877. 252 pp.

Winslow, W.H. Cruising and Blockading. Brown bound cover with embossed filigree. Pittsburgh: J.R. Weldin & Co., 1885. 207 pp.

Soley, J.R. The Blockade and the Cruisers. Blue cover with embossed design of the deck of a ship. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. 257 pp.

Pasha, Hobart. Sketches from my Life. Green cloth cover with black lettering. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. 282 pp.

Sprunt, James. Tales of Cape Fear Blockade. North Carolina Booklet. Vol. 1 No. 10. Blue cloth cover and original spine paper label. Raleigh: Capital Printing Company, 1902. 112 pp.

Taylor, Thomas E. Running the Blockade a Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War. Two with original cloth with the spine a little discolored. London: John Murray, 1897. 180 pp.

Soley, James Russel. The Navy in the Civil War Volume I. The Blockade and Cruisers. Subscription edition with the blue cover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. 239 pp. with an 11 pp. appendix.

Sprunt, James. Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade. Cloth cover with its dust jacket. No. 573. Wilmington, North Carolina: Charles Towne Preservation Trust, 1960. 134 pp.

Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles. Hobart Pasha: Blockade-Running, Slave-Hunting, and War and Sport in Turkey. Blue cloth cover with printed ship on the waves. New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1915.

Vail, Israel E. Three Years on the Blockade. Original red cloth decorated cover. New York: The Abbey Press, 1902. 171 pp.

Roberts, Captain. Never Caught: Personal Adventures Connected with Twelve Successful Trips in Blockade-Running During the American Civil War. 1863-1864. Original green cloth cover. London: John Camden Hotten, 1867. 123 pp.

Oxley, J. Macdonald. Baffling the Blockade. Original green cloth cover with gold gilt and an image of a captain and a sailor struggling over the wheel. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1896. 375 pp.

The American Neptune Pictorial Supplement III Blockade Runners. Blue paper cover with a modern print of a lithograph of three ships and some ships in the distance. Salem: The American Neptune, 1961. 32 pp.

Provenance: The M. Clifford (Cliff) and Lynne B. Young Confederate Blockade Runner Collection

Condition

Most of the books are in very good condition, very few have cases of scattered foxing near the title pages.
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