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First-class passenger; life at sea as experienced & recorded by voyaging landlubbers of the past / selected & edited with an introduction by August Mencken.

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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Collections.
  • Essays.
Penn Provenance:
  • Mencken, August, 1889-1967 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, xx, 334 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations ; 22 cm
Manufacture:
Norwood, Massachusetts : Composed, printed, and bound by the Plimpton Press.
Other Title:
  • First class passenger
  • Life at sea
Place of Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
Contents:
  • (1913) The Sports Committee
  • (1903) When the radio was new
  • (1896) The captain's dinner
  • (1892) Rats in the Mediteranean
  • (1889) Across the line in pajamas
  • (1884) A giant of 6000 tons
  • (1875) The Pacific mail
  • (1873) A German steamer of the 70's
  • (1869) The long voyage to Australia
  • (1867) The first tour-ship
  • (1867) Saving the sailors
  • (1863) Eastward bound in the Great Eastern
  • (1852) Scandal on the high seas
  • (1846) An early globe-trotter
  • (1842) Aboard an early steamer
  • (1838) The Great Western
  • (1834) Across the Atlantic in 1834
  • (1828) The New York packet
  • (1824) Across the Gulf of Mexico
  • (1811) An East Indiaman
  • (1798) A voyage to South America
  • (1769) A liner of the eighteenth century
  • (1697) Life in a Spanish galleon
  • (1483) The voyage to the Holy Land
  • (B.C. 750) The first recorded paying passenger.
Notes:
  • With half-title.
  • "Copyright 1938 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
  • "First Edition"
  • "The text of this book was set on the Linotype in Baskerville."
  • "Designed by W. A. Dwiggins."
  • With short biographical notices of the narrators.
  • Price from dustjacket.
  • Green cloth boards lettered and decorated in blue and black on spine. Blue Borzoi emblem in lower right hand corner of back cover. Top edge stained blue.
Local Notes:
  • Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
  • Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of August Mencken.
ISBN:
$3.00 net
OCLC:
1837892

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