Description
Signed limited edition of Schley And Santiago by George Edward Graham, signed by Graham and the publisher on the limitation page.
Octavo, 474pp. Publisher’s full deluxe morocco, raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Complete with 35 illustrated plates, frontispiece with tissue cover. Dampstain along foredge, affecting frontispiece portrait and occasional leaves throughout. This copy is signed on the limitation page by George Edward Graham and the publisher, W.B. Conkey, being number 29 of 50 copies.
Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1911) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, known as the controversial hero of the Battle of Santiago and rescuer of the Franklin Bay Expedition of Adolphus Greely. Schley wrote two books, The Rescue of Greely in 1885, and Forty-five Years Under the Flag which was an autobiography of his military career.
