first edition
1956 · Garden City
by Roberts, Kenneth
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Trade Edition. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and a gilt anchor on the front board and with map end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with map end sheets. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with minor light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and a 1/4 inch closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. 275 pages of text followed by eight pages of notes on other books by Roberts. A novel based on the facts of an actual shipwreck on this Maine island in 1710 and the fight for survival by the ship's crew even though they were within sight of the mainland. (Inventory #: TB32157)