The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas

Sewall, John S.; Arthur Power Dudden, Editor and Historical Introduction

Edité par The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1995

A propos de cet article

The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA, December, 1995. First (1st) Printing of the First Edition Thus. Number 93 in the Lakeside Classics Series. Previously privately printed by the author in Bangor, Maine, in 1905. As New condition. No Jacket, as issued. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, very tight, straight and square with bright gilt top-edge and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full brown cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright gilt logo of the publisher on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. No Dust Jacket, as issued. See photos. cv [Publisher's Preface and Historical Introduction], 291 pages, i. 4 1/2" x 6 7/8". The Lakeside Classics Series, volume 93, containing numerous illustrations and maps. The author, then a graduate of Bowdoin College, served as Captain's Clerk on the U.S.S. Saratoga from 1850 to 1854, as it visited Japan as part of Commodore Perry's squadron during the historic opening of Japan to the outside world. This book, a memoir in part written 50 years later, contains the author's commentaries as well. Historical Introduction by Arthur Power Dudden.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas
• Éditeur: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition Thus
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket (As Issued)