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The Yankee Whaler.

September 18, 2022 By

The Yankee Whaler.
The Yankee Whaler.


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Item #44635
The Yankee Whaler.
Ashley, Clifford.
Houghton Mifflin, ( 1926), Boston
28.5 cm., 379 pp. Color and b/w plates, ills. b/w engraved print.
Price: $1250

This is #113 of 156 copies, numbered and signed by Ashley, and with an original engraving of a whale ship by him. Profusely illustrated, partially in color. “Probably the best pictorial record of American whaling which can be published.” – Hohman. Ashley went on a whaling voyage himself, aboard the “Sunbeam,” of New Bedford, and this volume includes an account of that voyage. Ashley was a friend of N. C. Wyeth, and a member of Howard Pyle’s Brandywine school. Forster 160. Scarce in this edition. Bound in original quarter calf, blue boards, pictorial endpapers. Some wear to backstrip. With original slipcase, which is fragile and worn.

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