by Harold S. Sniffen and Alexander Crosby Brown.
Newport News, Virginia: The Mariner's Museum, 1949.
First edition, first printing.
Illustrated with eighteen art paintings on striking black-and-white plates.
This extract from Art In America, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 1949, adds additional text, a detailed checklist and bibliographic notes.
A wonderful description of the art and both artists, with two-hundred-twenty-three vessels portrayed in three-hundred-eleven paintings that have been found to be still be in existence.
A lovely and presentable art and steamship collectible.
Barely perceptible bend to the upper corner tip, else crisp and very nearly fine in stapled bluish-green stiff-card wraps with dark-blue embossed titles and illustrated insignia to the front cover.
Octavo (10' X 7"); 32 pages.
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