[Rarebooks] fs: Sailing Days on the Penobscot, 1st, #83/97, 1932

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9800 )  Wasson, George S[avary].; Lincoln Colcord. SAILING DAYS ON THE 
PENOBSCOT: THE RIVER AND BAY AS THEY WERE IN THE OLD DAYS, WITH A RECORD OF 
VESSELS BUILT THERE.
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1932. Limited edition, original quarter 
cloth, Octavo, xiv, 465 pages, black and white photographic plates. Fine.
      The classic history of the ships and small craft which carried the 
immense lumber trade out of Maine's Penobscot River and Bay in the mid to 
late 19th century. Also includes chapters on lobster sloops, other fishing 
vessels, the lime trade, shipbuilding along the shore, and Lincoln Colcord's 
useful list of vessels there. This is the copy #83 of 97 in the first 
edition, printed on rag paper. Illustrated throughout with dozens of 
historic photographs. See ALBION, p. 135 (starred item). Bound in marbled 
paper over boards with black cloth spine, gilt titles and rule to spine, 
endpaper maps, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges left rough-trimmed. A 
few minor rubs at spine ends, prior owner bookplate on verso of front free 
endpaper. A lovely copy, clean and tight overall.    $250.00
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