Down to the Sea.
first edition
1905 · New York
by Robertson, Morgan.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1905). First Edition. Octavo, rose illus. cloth (hardcover), 311 pp. Very Good, with slight sunning to spine & edgewear; in a torn, later edition, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Mr. Robertson has no equal as a writer of tales of the sea. Himself a sailor for many years, these stories have a tremendous power of reality in them, told in the blunt, forcible style of a man of action. They reflect a variety of moods -- tales of broad humor, deep pathos, clever ingenuity, and thrilling horror. Finnegan, a rough-and-ready old salt who figures in several of the stories, is as real and amusing a character as Kipling’s Mulvaney. (Inventory #: es4649)