The Yankee Whaler
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1926. One of 1,625 copies; this one signed by Ashley but in 1927. NOT one of the 156 signed/numbered copies with an original drawing. Hardcover. Cream paper/boards; black lettering and whale illus.; tan cloth spine with gilt lettering. Four gilt flat bands and five beautiful gilt images of whales and a porpoise, all on spine. Decorative end papers. 158 pp. followed by a section of more than 100 bw illustrations on glossy white paper. Color frontis, 16 color plates, and 12 bw illustrations. No dj. Letter and prospectus, from Houghton Mifflin, about forthcoming book, Whaleships of New Bedford, laid in. Good. Contents tight and free of extraneous marks but with general shelf wear to covers and contents. Plates VG - glossy paper seems to have held up better. Inscription to Arthur Watson (mentioned in acknowledgments) from Frank Wood (co-author of Whale Ships and Whaling) on half title; signed/dated (1927) by Ashley on colophon. Item #154054
"The Yankee Whaler contains hitherto unpublished matter, such as the log-book of the sloop Manufactor, the oldest whaling log in existence. Here is new light on those much-mooted points, the invention of the schooner and the breathing of the whales; and much whalemen's lore concerning methods of attack and the behavior of the quarry. Here are all tlhe details of whaleship construction, rigging and navigation, gear and craft, and much more." Written and illustrated by Clifford Ashley, artist and whaleman.
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