Buy this book on-line Whidden, John D : Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days: From Forecastle to Quarter-deckLittle, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1909
Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/2" x 8." 314 pages, complete. Twenty-nine black and white plates, complete. Frontispiece portrait of the author included. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine. Text on spine is a bit faded. All of the plates are clean but one is a bit loose (still attached). From the author's Preface: "... after giving up the sea as a profession, I concluded to jot down from memory my quarter-century's sea experience. The characters are from life, the scenes and incidents as they appeared to me at the time, in a story of a New England boy's career from the age of twelve to thirty-seven.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Whidden, John D : Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days: From Forecastle to Quarter-deck. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres illustrées, libri rari, used books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |