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Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Second edition. Octavo. 24pp. White glazed wrappers. Tide marks in the margins of the text, wrappers tinted a little pink, a near very good copy. The 203 foot, 1445 ton sailing vessel sank in the freezing waters off Montauk in one of Long Island's worst maritime disasters in February of 1858. Unaware of the new Shinnecock lighthouse, the captain mistook it for the Montauk Point lighthouse and turned north for his home port of New Bedford, steering instead onto the rocks at Ditch Point with all 32 (or 33 - reports vary) aboard lost. Most were buried in East Hampton. *OCLC* locates two copies of the first edition, three copies of this second edition, and four copies of a third edition, all published in 1858.…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Second edition. Octavo. 24pp. White glazed wrappers. Rear wrap dampstained, tide marks in the margins of the text, and a short tear on the front panel, a good copy. The 203 foot, 1445 ton sailing vessel sank in the freezing waters off Montauk in one of Long Island's worst maritime disasters in February of 1858. Unaware of the new Shinnecock lighthouse, the captain mistook it for the Montauk Point lighthouse and turned north for his home port of New Bedford, steering instead onto the rocks at Ditch Point with all 32 (or 33 - reports vary) aboard lost. Most were buried in East Hampton. *OCLC* locates two copies of the first edition, three copies of this second edition, and four copies of a third edition, all published in 1858.…