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Scrimshaw and Sudden Death: A Salty Tale of Whales and Men.
by [Maritime; Whaling]. O'BRIEN, Brian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: EP Dutton, 1959 First edition. 8vo, 245 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in dark blue on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins & spine lightly sunned, previous owner's bookplate at 2nd blank, otherwise very good in like dust jacket, moderately soiled, tanned mostly at the spine, with slight edge wear.
Based on personal accounts and logbooks of Captain Lester A Mosher.
"Lester Mosher, one of the last of the old-time whaling captains, was a lad of fifteen when he sailed as a green hand aboard the whaleship Canton This is a gripping, detailed account of that two-year voyage, as he learned his trade of hunting the biggest game in the world" ~from the dust jacket
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1219
- Title
- Scrimshaw and Sudden Death: A Salty Tale of Whales and Men.
- Author
- [Maritime; Whaling]. O'BRIEN, Brian
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Maritime, Nautical, Whaling, Lester Mosher, Whaleship Canton.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel, Tourism, Exploration; Hunting, Fishing; Maritime, Nautical;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
Biblio member since 2014
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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