Swallowing the anchor; being a revised and enlarged collection of notes made by an engineer in the merchant service who secured leave of absence from his ship to investigate and report upon the alleged superiority of life ashore / by William McFee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McFee, William, 1881-1966.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Harriman, Karl Edwin, 1875-1935 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

McFee, William, 1881-1966 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

xxii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 311 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Garden City, N.Y. : Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.

Notes:

With a half-title.

T.p. within triple-ruled red and black border.

"First Edition."

Price from dust-jacket: Price, net, $2.00

Black cloth spine with blue paper boards. Black lettering on orange labels on spine and front cover.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 inscribed to Karl E. Harriman by William McFee, May 11, 1923.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has marginal marks next to page numbers on contents pages.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has bookplate of Helen Godey Wilson.

OCLC:

846209