Windjammer
by Attiwill, Ken
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Hampden, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. xiv, 312 pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards, yellow cloth spine stamped in black. Introduction by Captain David W. Bone. Account of an Australian journalist's trip aboard the four-masted bark Archibald Russell from Melbourne to Queenstown, Ireland via Cape Horn where he was nearly washed overboard. "Fo'c'sle hands and Fo'c'sle life are ruthlessly chronicled down to the last appalling detail." Edward A. Wilson illustration on front board and dust jacket. Near Fine in dust jacket with a large chip out of the top of the spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05605
- Title
- Windjammer
- Author
- Attiwill, Ken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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About the Seller
Lippincott Books
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Hampden, Maine
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We invite you to browse through the approximately 1800 books we have listed online on a wide variety of subjects, including strong holdings in Maine history and literature, lumbering, the North Woods of Maine, and Eastern Woodland Indians. We've been in business since 1975, over 25 years with a general antiquarian bookshop in Bangor.We are open by appointment; most of our stock of over 20,000 old and rare books have never been listed online, including a large selection of books on Maine and the Maine Woods. We are regularly adding to our inventory with new acquisitions.
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