[Rarebooks] fs: Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay..., 1st, Signed

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 5801 )  Middleton, Arthur Pierce edited by George Carrington Mason. 
TOBACCO COAST: A MARITIME HISTORY OF CHESAPEAKE BAY IN THE COLONIAL ERA 
(INSCRIBED AND SIGNED).
Newport News: Mariner's Museum, 1953. First printing, Full cloth, Octavo, 
xiv, 482 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. Very good in a very good 
dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      This classic economic history of the Chesapeake Bay region also 
includes a wealth of information on everyday colonial life. The monumental 
themes developed in this work have powerfully influenced subsequent study 
and interpretation of the Chesapeake Bay region and the colonies that shared 
its shores. See PRATT, EASTERN SHORE #459. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Middleton 
on front free endpaper. Bound in brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped 
spine and upper board. Shallow bumps to lower fore corner of upper board and 
edges of cloth at spine ends, prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. 
Endpapers lightly browned, textblock edges show mild foxing. Jacket has a 
touch of sun-fading to spine, a few small chips and rubs at extremities, and 
a bit of foxing.    $100.00
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