FIRST-CLASS PASSENGER: Life at Sea... [First Edn.]

by Mencken, August; ed

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NY:: Knopf,, 1938. Hardcover; condition good.. With 19pp. of b&w drawings. August Mencken, (brother of acerbic H.L. Mencken), gathered 25 narratives ranging from circa 750 B.C.--`The First Recorded Paying Passenger' (Jonah in the Whale) through 1842--`Aboard an Early Steamer' & 1867--`The First Tour-Ship' to 1903--`When the Radio Was New' & 1913--`The Sports Committee.' ||| Narratives are by average passengers traveling in the best ships available at that time.