[Rarebooks] fs: Bowker. Hull-Down (Signed)

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9088 )  Bowker, Francis E. HULL-DOWN (SIGNED).
[New Bedford]: [Reynolds Printing, Inc.], 1963. First printing, Quarter 
cloth, tall octavo, 149 pages, Black & white photographs, facsimiles. Fine 
in a very good glassine wrapper.
      Lively chronicle of the American coasting schooner type, particularly 
the four-masted schooner Helen Barnet Gring of Maine, on which the author 
sailed and ultimately was shipwrecked in 1940 under an incompetent captain. 
The last half of the book records that disastrous final voyage in rather 
humorous fashion. ALBION, p. 30. Bound in dark blue paper over boards with 
cloth spine, gilt-stamped spine lettering, gilt schooner on upper board. 
SIGNED by Bowker on title page. Glassine wrapper has edge wear and browning 
along spine.    $150.00
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