Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Slocum

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: The Century Company, 1900. First edition, first printing. xvi, 2 , 294 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with pictorial stamping in green and silver, top edge gilt.Near Fine with light sunning to spine, light rubbing to extremities, and slight mottling to cloth on rear board. Several hinges over-opened throughout, binding exposed at p. 273. Joshua Slocum was a merchant captain who had gone to sea in 1860

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