Item #:40678
The Pilgrimage of a Pilgrim of Eighty Years.
Atwood, John.
Published by the Author, ( 1892), Boston
215pp. b/w frontispiece portrait.
Price: $100
The Pilgrimage of a Pilgrim of Eighty Years.
Atwood, John.
Published by the Author, ( 1892), Boston
215pp. b/w frontispiece portrait.
Price: $100
Atwood was born in Provincetown and spent all his life as a commercial fisherman. His book is written in an eccentric style which mixes religious ramblings and philosophizing with solid information on the commercial fisheries of Cape Cod in the latter 2/3 of the 19th century. Privately printed. Ex-libris Congregational Library, with their circular stamp on title page, and paper sticker on backstrip. Otherwise quite a presentable copy. Laboriously inscribed in pencil on scribed pencil lines, “Presented to Rept Arthur Wellman By the Auther John Atwood of Malden Mass May 1893.” Scarce and Strange.
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