Author: BARNES, JAMES
Title: The Story of the American Navy (the Mentor) April 16, 1917 Serial No. 129
Description: New York: The Mentor Association, Inc, 1917. Periodical. Soft cover is stapled wraps. Grey with dark blue lettering and design on front and back. This issue has 12 pages, clean and tight, about 'The Story of the American Navy.' Included are six, b/w gravures [on heavier stock paper], laid in. The six are: The 'Constitution' and the 'Java'; Commodore Esek Hopkins; The 'United States' and the "Macedonian'; the 'Kearsarge' and the 'Alabama'; the 'Constitution' and the 'Guerriere'; Captain Isaac Hull. Inside the front cover is a poem, to 'Old Ironsides', by Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the reverse side of the gravures, is a full page of information regarding the illustration. ; Vol. 5; B&W Illustrations/gravures; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4; 12+ pages; Cover has shelf wear, sunning, some chipping/bumping. Light creasing to corners of the pages and corners of the prints.. Very Good- .

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