Elijah Cobb. 1768-1848. A Cape Cod Skipper.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First edition. Forward by historian and author Ralph D. Paine, who writes, "At the beginning of the Revolution... there were more sailors than farmers in the coastwise settlements of Maine and New Hampshire... On Cape Cod... boys followed the sea instead of the plow." Cobb is an engaging writer. The editors have retained his "curious spelling and quaint turns of phrase..." Very good condition in smudged and worn dust jacket.. 13 x 21 cm.(4), 111 pp. b/w frontispiece, plate, facsimiles