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THE ADVENTURES AND RAMBLINGS OF A SAILOR, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF [manuscript caption title].
Nichols, Reuben:
[Bridgeport, Ct. ca. 1840]. 213pp., written on rectos only; approximately 70,000 words. Folio. Moderate wear with some loss to first few leaves. Minor soiling. Written in a clear and very legible hand. Good plus. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A lively and entertaining account of the times and exploits of Reuben Nichols, who went to sea as a merchant sailor in 1811 at the tender age of seventeen, on the eve of the War of 1812. His narrative describes many encounters with other trading ships, with pirates and privateers, and tells of the sentencing of mutineers and deserters to death.. more
Price: $9,500.00
Nichols, Reuben:
[Bridgeport, Ct. ca. 1840]. 213pp., written on rectos only; approximately 70,000 words. Folio. Moderate wear with some loss to first few leaves. Minor soiling. Written in a clear and very legible hand. Good plus. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A lively and entertaining account of the times and exploits of Reuben Nichols, who went to sea as a merchant sailor in 1811 at the tender age of seventeen, on the eve of the War of 1812. His narrative describes many encounters with other trading ships, with pirates and privateers, and tells of the sentencing of mutineers and deserters to death.. more
Price: $9,500.00
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WHO'S WHO 1918. AN ANNUAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TIME."
[Hardy, Thomas (His Copy)]:
London: A. & C. Black, [nd. but 1918]. Very thick octavo. Original cloth. The spine covering is creased and partly split due to the cumbersome size of the volume and its use, the cloth is somewhat sunned and soiled, the front inner hinge is cracking, clipping from the TIMES (11 Jan. 1919) tipped to front pastedown, remnants of manuscript label formerly in spine, now laid in ("Thomas Hardy's Copy"); still, all things considered, a reasonably intact copy. Thomas Hardy's copy, with a number of neat deletions, additions and revisions in ink and pencil in the margins of his own entry on page 1059. An interesting year for this.. more
Price: $1,650.00
[Hardy, Thomas (His Copy)]:
London: A. & C. Black, [nd. but 1918]. Very thick octavo. Original cloth. The spine covering is creased and partly split due to the cumbersome size of the volume and its use, the cloth is somewhat sunned and soiled, the front inner hinge is cracking, clipping from the TIMES (11 Jan. 1919) tipped to front pastedown, remnants of manuscript label formerly in spine, now laid in ("Thomas Hardy's Copy"); still, all things considered, a reasonably intact copy. Thomas Hardy's copy, with a number of neat deletions, additions and revisions in ink and pencil in the margins of his own entry on page 1059. An interesting year for this.. more
Price: $1,650.00