From the forecastle to the cabin

by Samuels, amuel

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First edition

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 308, 4 ; portrait frontis and 15 plates; text illustrations throughout; stained top edge; in green cloth with gilt and silver decoration; textblock cocked, spine edges rubbed, very good overall. The autobiography of a man who ran away at 11 to become a cabin boy of a schooner, and eventually became captain of the Dreadnaught. The Dreadnaught was one of the fastest and most famous ships built

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