A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the 'Florizel' Tapa dura - 1976

One sketch map and black & white photo illustrations

Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1976. 1st. very good/good.  The wreck of the Florizel in 1918 on the shore of Newfoundland was one of the most senseless disasters of Canadian maritime history. Brown’s book recounts the events and proposes a reason for the disaster.

Doubleday Canada Limited, Toronto, 1976, Very Good Hardcover / Poor Dustjacket, 275 pages, 5.75" x 8.5", 16 pages of black & white photos.

Toronto: Doubleday, 1976.. It was a snowy, stormy night, that February 23, 1918, when the sturdy S.S.Florizel steamed out of St.John's harbor, bound for Halifax and New York. Captain William Martin, a cautious and competent skipper, encountered sish ice and heavy winds as he headed down the treacherous Newfoundland coast...Just before dawn, over none hours after leaving port, Captain Martin ran his ship full steam onto the rocks just north of Cape Race....Men, women and children were washed overboard, or killed from exposure, or fatally trapped below deck...Cassie Brown retells in chilling detail the story of the wreck, the rescue and the enquiry that followed. And she proposes, for the first time, the real reason for this senseless disaster." Pp.x/276, 16 pages of black & white photos + map, owner's bookplate to inside front board. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has small edge tears but has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

Doubleday, 1976, 1st. VG/VG-. Spine tiny bit cocked; trace of shelfwear; heel bumped; small label pasted front fixed endpaper; trace of soiling. DJ w/ bit of rubbing/edgewear/soiling; few tiny dings/chips; in new Brodart protector. Illustrated with a few B&W photo plates. 000022331

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1976. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Doubleday, 1976. Hard cover, first edition. VG condition in VG dust jacket with a touch of minor edge wear.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada [0-385-12570-4] 1976, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 276pp. Photographs, map, appendices. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Locale: Newfoundland. (Transportation, Florizel--Steam Ship, Shipwrecks).

Doubleday Canada, 1976. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1976. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1976. 1st edition . Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 276 p.