Captain Charles Hervey Townshend. Self-Portrait of an American Packet Ship Sailor [Prefatory Note by Carl C. Cutler]
by (Packet Ships) Townshend, Charles Hervey, Captain
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Mystic, Connecticut: Privately printed. Publication of The Marine Historical Association, Inc. [The Utter Company, Printers, Westerly, R I.], 1940. Copy number 1 of 100 copies privately printed. Frontispiece portrait and plates. xi, [i], 86, [6]pp. 1 vols. Sm. folio. Original blue cloth. Some discoloration and light rubbing of cloth, otherwise a fine copy. Copy number 1 of 100 copies privately printed. Frontispiece portrait and plates. xi, [i], 86, [6]pp. 1 vols. Sm. folio. Copy #1 of 100. Inscribed on endpaper: "With the Compliments of Henry H. Townshend." Volume II, No. 1 of the Marine Historical Association Publications, 1940.
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- Title
- Captain Charles Hervey Townshend. Self-Portrait of an American Packet Ship Sailor [Prefatory Note by Carl C. Cutler]
- Author
- (Packet Ships) Townshend, Charles Hervey, Captain
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece portrait and plates. xi, [i], 86, [6]pp. 1 vols. Sm. folio
- Book Condition
- Used - Original blue cloth. Some discoloration and light rubbing of cloth, otherwise a fine copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Copy number 1 of 100 copies privately printed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately printed. Publication of The Marine Historical Association, Inc. [The Utter Company, Printers, Westerly, R I.]
- Place of Publication
- Mystic, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Biography
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