Life and Adventures of "Jack" Philip, Rear Admiral, United States Navy; A Memorial Magazine in Four Numbers May, June, July, and August, 1903
New York City: The Baker & Taylor Co. [Spine reads The Illustrated Navy], 1903. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. [2], 280, [2] pages. Frontis Illustration. Decorative front cover. Illustrations. Some weakness at front and back hinges. Some cover wear. Edgar Stanton Maclay (18 April 1863, – 2 November 1919) was an American journalist and historian. He was a reporter on the Brooklyn Times (1886–1890) and on the New York Tribune (1891–1893); served on the editorial staff of the Tribune (1893–1895) and on that of the New York Sun (1895–1896). He was was the author of History of the United States Navy, which occasioned controversy and brought about his dismissal from government employ, by order of President Roosevelt, in 1901. This work includes Articles by: William McKinley, Alfred Thayer Mahan, John Davis Long, William Thomas Samson, Mary Philip Wheelock, David Howard Tribou, Henry B. F. Macfarland, Robert Edward Steele, George Beall Balch, Francis John Higginson, Henry Clay Taylor, Francis Tiffany Bowles, Wilton Merle Smith, Edward Biddle Latch, Marcus H. Rogers, Daniel Delehanty, and Francis J. Haeseler. More