Sailing Alone Around The World

New York: The Century Co., 1900. First Edition. First Printing Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text on the spine and on the front board together with the image of two, green sea horses over an anchor and with the top edge of the text block gilt. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth rubbed at the corners of the spine and rubbed at the tips of the boards. The hinges and joints are tight and strong and the contents are clean but there is a prior owner's name and place on the front paste down and again on the verso of the fly title page. There is also a tobacco burn and a faint stain on page 17 and an occasional light stain or thumb print scattered through the text. 294 pages of text. Illustrated with line drawings of the deck plans of the Spray, a frontispiece photograph of the author on board the Spray, maps and several images and line art vignettes by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Slocum was the first man to sail around the world single handed. This title is a record of that adventure.