The Lenore: A Maritime Chronicle de O'Donnell, Terence - 1926

UsedGood. First edition, 1926. Hardcover in original price-clipped dust jacket. DJ chipped at edges, scuffing and general shelfwear with age. Past price mark in pencil on rear flap of jacket. Strong binding. Minor yellowing to page edges. Text clean, no notes or underlining. Good copy overall.

Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013-10-27. Paperback. Good. 0.7000 9.0200 5.9800.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1926. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 325 pp. Illus. Near-Fine, with very slight edgewear, in a badly chipped dust jacket. ‘This is the story of the ruthless, dynamic Captain Pegleg Parker, sailing in the year ‘57 out of Boston for Canton to build Yankee clippers for the Hong merchants; and it is the story of his son, Calvin, a sensitive boy unbroken to sea ways and foreign life; of his strange adventures in exotic lands and of how at last he comes back to the port having seen life, death, foreign countries, tropic seas, and Artic Oceans, having learned courage, wisdom and fortitude. But greater than the people of the story is the magnificent ship herself, the Lenore. From the first time we meet her dropping down Boston Harbor until her final desolate and tragic end...the Lenore is a valiant and beloved individual; not merely a queenly ship, apotheosis of all clippers, epitome of a great age, but the symbol… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Block prints by Roland F. Casamini. 8vo, 325 pages, dark blue cloth; Ex libris Lloyd Haimerl Tipped-in is the business card of the author, O'Donnell, with inked phone numbers and work and home addresses in Chcago. His chronicle -apparently fictional - of a voyage of a mighty clipper ship to China and return starting in 1857. Block prints by Roland F. Casamini.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Near fine in gilt cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with a six-line inscription. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.