Slow Boat on Rum Row by Fraser Miles - 1992

Harbour Publishing, 1992-01-01. Hardcover. New.

Harbour Publishing, 1992-01-01. Hardcover. Like New.

Harbour Publishing, 1992-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed 1st edition, Harbour Books hardcover w/ DJ, 1992. Book is VG, w/ clean text, tight binding; light foxing to top edges, lighter foxing to bottom edges. DJ is VG+, w/ very light edge/shelf wear. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.

Harbour Publishing Company, Madeira Park, 1992, Fine Hardcover / Fine Dustjacket, 270 pages, 6.5" x 9.25".

Harbour, 1992-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Harbour Publishing Company, Limited, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harbour Publishing, 1992. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada: Harbour Pub Co, 1992. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Canadian First. Inscribed by Fraser Miles on the title page: "For__ with best wishes, Fraser Miles;" minor edge wear to boards; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve..

Madiera Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550170694 . 270 pp. Photos. Spine, corners bumped. Jacket has light edgewear. Prev owner's name on the ffep. The first hand account of a rum-runner on Canada's West Coast during Prohibition. Includes a list of the rum running ships from 1933 - 1933.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

U.S.A.: Harbour, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Growing up in BC during the 1920s, young Fraser Miles never knew anything but poverty. There was no social stigma to being poor - most of his neighbor's were not much better off - but in his late teens Miles began to look for a way to finance a career in the growing field of radio electronics.Not long after he was hired as radio operator on the Ruth B, the young man noticed that the alleged fishpacker was packing anything but fish. These were the Prohibition years; there was less money in freezing herring than there was in smuggling liquor to the thirsty multitudes south of the border.Slow Boat on Rum Row begins as a fascinating memoir of Fraser Miles' youth in the fledgling community of Mission on the Fraser River, a rugged milieu where beachcombing and cougar hunting were more important than high school in teaching a boy the hard facts of survival.Miles' account of his years on the… Read More