GHOST SHIPS OF THE GREAT LAKES - with - TRUE TALES OF THE GREAT LAKES by Boyer, Dwight - 1968

New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1968. (xxii, ix) 294, 340 pp. Pale green cloth lettered in dark green and gray on the spine; green endpapers; gray upper edge; headband; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Gray cloth lettered in silver on the spine; red endpapers; red upper edge; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Both books have light edge and corner wear on the dustjackets; both are price clipped; and neither one has any interior markings. The Ghost Ship Contents are: The Luck of Mr Murphy; The Flying Dutchman of Lake Superior; Hard Times for the Benjamin Noble; Eight Bells for the Clifton; Soft and Brown... with a Touch of Green...; A Matter of Professional Pride; With the Best of Intentions; A Very Determined Man; Where Is the Kamloops; Knives in the Lifeboat; The Prophetic Passing of Captain Napier; Don't Change Her Name; That Damnable Nuisance Mrs Doupe; And Then There Were Two; A Family Affair; Telegram for Captain Stines; and Our Son and E.S.P.; followed by an index. The True Tales Contents are: The Enigma of Tatey Bug Burke; Who Speaks for the Little Feller; Wind Wrecks Whisky and Abigail Becker; Ghouls Gold and the Prevarications of Henry Priday; A Scot Comes Home for the Harvest; Justice Evermore and the Gentle Man in Cell 24; A Question of Lights Birthdays and a Farm; The Big Blow - an Introduction; He Went Away and Never Said Goodbye; The Last Laugh of Jimmy Owen; The Devil's Wind and Dancing Chauncey Ney; A Simple Case of Duty So Good-by Nellie; and Let the Cobbler Stick to His Last; followed by an index. To be clear, the books here are: Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes and True Tales of the Great Lakes.. First Editions. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.