KING OF THE CLIPPERS - Adventure on the High Seas - A Novel by Collier, Edmund - 1955

New York: Aladdin Books, 1955. 192 pp. Beige cloth with a brown and yellow pictorial on the front panel; lettered in brown on the front panel; decorated in yellow and brown on the spine; illustrated endpapers Some edgewear with chipping at the corners of the dustjacket; some loss at the head and foot of the spine; slight fading on the spine; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with line drawings by Frederick T. Chapman. He came from a family of New England fishermen and sailors. At eighteen he had commanded a small vessel, but his great longing was to command one of the great clipper ships that were beginning to make sailing history from Boston to Bombay.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Frederick T. Chapman;. 8vo.