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The Yankee whaler / by Clifford W. Ashley ; with an introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy ; and a preface to the pictures by Zephaniah W. Pease.
LIBRA 639 AS34
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashley, Clifford W. (Clifford Warren), 1881-1947.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whaling.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv 380 pages : including illustrations, plates, diagrams, color frontispiece, color plates ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Houghton, 1926.
- Notes:
- "This first edition consists of sixteen hundred and twenty-five copies of which one hundred and fifty-six are numbered and signed and contain an original drawing by Mr. Ashley." This copy is neither numbered nor signed and is without the original drawing.
- Contains "the account of my whaling voyage in the bark Sunbeam, originally published in Harpers̕ magazine some twenty years ago under the title T̀he blubber-hunters"́.--Foreword.
- "A list of books concerning whales and whaling": p. [147]-149.
- OCLC:
- 1394675
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