The Long Harpoon. A Collection of Whaling Anecdotes.
Watson, Arthur C.
( 1929), New Bedford
22.5 cm. 165 pp. b/w line ills.
Price: $30
Watson used logbooks and early records at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, as well as contemporary magazines and news outlets to gather his “anecdotes.” These deal with several aspects of the hunt, the Arctic fleet, and several of the most famous disasters. See Forster 266. Jenkins p. 156. First edition. Very good condition in publisher’s decorated green cloth.