[Rarebooks] FS: A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF MY SERVICE ON THE ASIATIC STATION

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A Bluejacket.  A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF MY SERVICE ON THE ASIATIC 
STATION. n.p. (Privately Printed), 1914. [104 pp.], 14 pp., itinerary 
[2], blanks [10 leaves]. Obl. 4to. [21 x 28 cm.]. Navy blue moire 
patterned cloth with gilt illustrations, titles, and decorative 
borders. Gray endpapers (hardback). First edition. Illus. with 406 
b/w photos +3 maps. NHC VA63.A8 P 525.

A compiled record of a bluejacket's time aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga 
(originally the U.S.S. New York, laid down on September. 19, 1890, 
launched on December 2, 1891, and finally commissioned on August 1, 
1893; overhauled in 1910, steamed for Manila to rejoin the Asiatic 
Fleet and renamed U.S.S. Saratoga on February, 1911). Photographs of 
the ship, the crew, officers, the Philippines, poster for the 
challenge and acceptance of the famous officers' baseball match 
between the crew of the U.S.S. Saratoga and the U.S.S. Cincinnati as 
well as photos, but mainly photographs of China, panoramas of 
Sanghai, people, leaders such as Sun Yat Sen, architecture, the war, 
armaments, even the printing factory where the book was manufactured. 
Nearly all of the photographs were taken by bluejackets off the 
various ships or by Burr Photo Co., Denniston & Sullivan (well know 
producers of China postcards), or Rembrant. There are fourteen pages 
of text describing each photo or group of photos. A blank "itinerary 
of ports visited" form follows; it remains clean and all rear blanks 
are unmarked.

Extremely scarce. We have been able to locate only one other copy, at 
the U.S. Navy Dept Library, Naval Historical Center.

A very good clean copy, boards and gilt lightly rubbed. [25671] $875.00


Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
Email: books at kaaterskillbooks.com
Member of I. O. B. A.


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