The Sea, The Ship and the Sailor Tales of Adventure From Log Books and Original Narratives

Salem: Marine Research Society, 1925. First Edition. First printing Very good- in 1/4 brown cloth and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and illustrated end sheets. The tips of the boards are covered in vellum and the top edge of the text block is gilt. The cloth at the head of the spine shows a 1/4" deep closed tear with shallow related chipping of`1/32" on either side. There is the ghost of a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page. The title page and many of the illustrated plates within the text show mild tanning and offsetting to the facing pages. Without its issued dust jacket. One of only ninety-seven "vellum" copies printed and this copy is identified as number "95". An untold number of plain cloth and paper copies were printed. 353 pages of text including an index and illustrated with 2 maps a frontispiece and 30 black and white photographs and engravings. The text contains five narratives of accounts of ship wreck and abandonment in the south Atlantic and in the South Pacific. With an introduction by Captain Elliot Snow. The seventh volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society. (Inventory #: TB22610)