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Beautiful Swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay / by William W. Warner ; drawings by Consuelo Hanks.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SH380.45.U5 W37 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, William W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crab fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).
- Crab fisheries.
- Callinectes.
- Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, [1], 304, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1976]
- Contents:
- Preface
- The Bay
- Autumn, Deal Island
- Winter
- Follow the Water
- Beautiful Swimmer
- Spring
- Lester Lee and the Chicken Neckers
- To Market
- Summer and Scraping
- The Islands, Looking Ahead
- Out Main Bay
- Crisfeld
- An Afterword.
- Notes:
- "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
- "Atlantic-Little Brown Books are published by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press."
- Lining paper map by Samuel Bryant.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket with transparent protective cover retained.
- Kislak copy is "Tenth Printing".
- ISBN:
- 0316923265 :
- OCLC:
- 1659680
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