Author: CALKINS, EARNEST ELMO
Title: The Lure of the Little Ships
Description: New York, Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Slight bumping to spine head and foot, otherwise clean and beautiful blue hardcover with light blue paper label with title and illustration of a ship affixed at lower half of front cover. This is a rare, privately printed title in a run of 300 that contains a brief inscription and signature by the author located at front pastedown. Author's own bookplate is laid in. 19 pp. . . . Near Fine

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