MATTINGLY, GARRETT — The Armada
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. BCE. Hardcover. A book club edition (despite first printing statement) of author's account of the lead-up and eventual defeat of the Spanish Armada by the Royal Navy in 1588. The author presents the story from alternating Spanish and English points of view. With maps at endpapers, 2 additional maps and two sections of plates bearing black & white illustrations. Indexed. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with indistinct image of a ship to cover in grey, titling in black on grey spine block. Jacket features unattributed back cover photographic portrait of the author. --- A clean, tightly-bound and sound copy but with creasing to corners of a few leaves. Dust jacket with rubbing and slight sunning, but remains intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xviii, (2), 443 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
