Editore: New York:E.P. Dutton & Co., 1959
Da: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: SNEAB
Prima edizione
hard cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. New York:E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1959. 1st edition. 255pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with edge points gentle bumped. Internally, a very good, clean copy. The dust jacket, lightly worn at edges, still very good. *From the dust jacket."A weathered manuscript discovered among old papers was the foundation of this powerful book.James H. Williams' spellbinding recollections of his adventures before the mast in sailing-ship days bring alive again that grueling but romantic era on the seas. Though he called himself a common sailor, James H. Williams (1864-1927) was a most uncommon man. A Negro seaman with reddish hair, he left his Massachusetts home to go to sea at the age of eleven.".