One Whaling Family
by Williams, Harold, [editor]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. Hardcover, biege cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 401pp., Illustrated with photographs, map endpapers. Same dates on title and copyright page, later printing. A stirring adventure, the authentic account [from diaries and ship's journals] of a great whaling Captain who took his family to sea, setting out from New Bedford in 1858 for a three year sojourn. No previous ownership marks. Slight bow to front board, light shelfwear to dust-jacket. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008981
- Title
- One Whaling Family
- Author
- Williams, Harold, [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Nautical, Whaling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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