Roy Norton — The Vanishing Fleets

New York , D. Appleton and Company , 1908. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce work depicting the author's thoughts and warnings on the state of United States' navy defences pre-World War I. A first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with monochrome frontispiece and three monochrome plates. Collated complete. With two leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  American newspaperman and author of pulp fiction, Roy Norton regularly contributed to magazines like Cosmopolitan and The Popular Magazine.In his author's note, Norton makes his disdain of the state of the United States' war defences very clear, and reflects this throughout the story. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with fading and slight bumping to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good Indeed .