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Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns.

September 18, 2022 By

Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns.
Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns.

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Item #44639
Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns.
(Codman, John). "Captain Ringbolt."
C. Francis & Co., ( 1847), New York
18.5 cm., 252 pp.
Price: $75

American nautical fiction. Ringbolt was pseudonym for John Codman. Wright I 559. First edition in publisher’s blind-stamped black cloth with gold decoration and lettering. Small chip at top of spine, but a very nice copy.

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