Modern History

A Biography of Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt, U.S.N., portrait frontispiece and b&w illustrations from photographs, portraits and paintings, maps and reproductions of contemporary maps, maps on endpapers, notes, bibliographical essay and index, xvi & 469 pp, blue buckram cloth in d/w, ex-library copy (stamped “Withdrawn”) with stamps on front free endpaper and verso of title-page, damaged strip on rear endpaper where sticky tape removed, d/w a trifle rubbed and patchily faded (see picture), otherwise in very good condition, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, Hawaii) 1984

23.3 x 14.9 cm, 1000g, ISBN 0 82480 846 0

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flaps, and reviews of the book from the rear of the dustwrapper.

Now out of print.  A solid and scholarly book, and, one would have thought, extremely unlikely ever to be reprinted.  One London bookseller is offering an “as-new” copy at £193.51!!!