The Blockade Runners. Counterculture when Bancroft was serving as

when Bancroft was serving as Secretary of the Navy and Espy was the meteorologist reporting to that department

Light wear and toning to wrappers

but in 1920 was engaged in selling rubber tires

front joint creased

The Blockade Runners. Counterculture when Bancroft was serving asLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. 7 1 2" x 5 1 4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials "B. G." to front board, new endpapers. Cloth binding clean and sharp; ownership blind stamp and ink date to front