First edition. Old sailor’s recollections of a career that, he says, might as well have been “confessions of a failure… if by failure is meant the inability to amass riches.” Sounds like bookselling! A helpful reader has taken the trouble to list, in pencil, the 17 ships on which Birch sailed. Very good condition in publisher’s pebbled blue cloth with gold lettering and decoration, lightly rubbed. Scarce. Nothing but reprints online.
