Carpe Diem Fine Books is on vacation from April 23, 2024 to May 6, 2024. Thanks for your order. We will confirm and ship upon our return to the shop on May 6.
Whale Ships and Whaling (SIGNED)
New York: W. W. Norton, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition of 112 copies, this one being Number 58. 179pp. 206 black & white photo-reproductions. SIGNED by the author on the colophon and on the sepia tone photograph of the whaler 'Charles H. Morgan'. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustrated wings to front board; endpapers reproduce two facing pages from the logbook of the whaler 'Royal William,' dated 1834; TEG. A fine copy (decorative owner bookplate). Item #13776
Author's first book; a descriptive photographic history covering whale ships and whaling.
Price: $250.00
See all items in
Americana
See all items by Albert Cook Church