The Cruise of the Cachalot
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1920. Circa 1920. Hardcover. Evergreen cloth/boards; gilt lettering on spine. Gold/color-illustrated front paste-down. Golden Books decorative end papers. 385 pp. with 8 color plates (including frontis). VG, clean text block. End papers and title page a bit foxed. No other foxing anywhere. Binding lightly cocked. Covers lightly rubbed at front hinge, edges, and front illus. Former owner's name on ffep. Item #155109
Bullen was a British seman and author. This book is one of several he wrote and tells his account of sailing around the world in search of sperm whales. It was written in the late 1800s.
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