Author: NORDHOFF, Charles Title: Sailor Life on Man of War and Merchant Vessel
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1884. Hardcover. Small 4to. Olive green cloth with black, brown, ivory and gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. 753pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations, floral endpapers. Very good. Faint binding edgewear; old but neat and discreet cloth tape reinforcement of inner hinges; text block moderately age toned as usual; ownership signature on inner flyleaf. Later printing of this 1882 combination of two works first published in 1855 -- penned by this journalist and author (1830-1901) whose namesake grandson co-authored with James Norman Hall the bestselling "Bounty Trilogy." Delightful front board graphics. .
Keywords: Nautical Travel & Exploration
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 43106
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