[Rarebooks] fs: Footner. Chesapeake Shipbuilding, inscribed to Tom Gillmer

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 11249 )  Footner, Geoffrey M[arsh]. THE LAST GENERATION: A HISTORY OF A 
CHESAPEAKE SHIPBUILDING FAMILY (SIGNED).
Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1991. First printing, Full cloth, 
Oblong quarto, xiv, 194 pages, black and white photographs, illus.. Very 
good in a very good dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      The life and work of Chesapeake shipwright Clarence E. Davis and the 
four generations of his family that preceded him in building wooden vessels 
on these waters. Nicely illustrated. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by 
Footner to famed naval architect and historian Thomas C. Gillmer, on half 
title. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine and 
upper board titles, color pictorial onlay tipped onto upper board, map 
illustrations to both pastedowns. Minor extremity wear, faint foxing to 
textblock edges, scattered faint spotting to cloth. Jacket has some minor 
dampness ripples to front panel, minor edge wear....... $100.00
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