Editore: Marine Museum of the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, 1954
Da: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Stapled in Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Revised and reprinted edition. 28 pp, 9" H x 6" D. B&w photographs, drawings, facsimiles of log pages, chronology of voyages. "She was the pride of New Bedford when on July 21, 1841, she slid down the ways of Jethro and Zachariah Hillman's shipyard into the Acushnet River, the largest and finest addition to New Bedford's great and growing fleet of whaleships." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light browning to covers edges, very light edge wear, minor creasing at spine area.
Editore: Marine Museum of the Marine Historical Assoc. Inc., Mystic, CT, 1954
Da: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Stapled wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The covers have some light bumping to the corners and some fading and toning in spots. The text pages are clean and bright. "Charles W. Morgan is an American whaling ship built in 1841 that was active during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Ships of this type were used to harvest the blubber of whales for whale oil which was commonly used in lamps. Charles W. Morgan has served as a museum ship since the 1940s and is now an exhibit at the Mystic Seaport museum in Mystic, Connecticut. She is the world's oldest surviving (non-wrecked) merchant vessel, the only surviving wooden whaling ship from the 19th century American merchant fleet (of an estimated 2,700 built) , and second to the USS Constitution, the oldest seaworthy vessel in the world. The Morgan was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966." (from Wikipedia).
Editore: Marine Historical Association, Mystic
Da: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Foreword by Alan Villiers. Pamphlet format, black and white photographs, fifteen pages. Minor edge wear and light soiling, else very good in stapled wraps.