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Whaling Wives (In Dustjacket)

  • Boards
  • Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953
By Emma Mayhew Whiting and Henry Beetle Hough
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. Boards. Very Good +/Very Good +. The 1953 1st edition, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG+ in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping at and along the spine crown. Octavo, a sample of black-and-white photos complementing the text. A nice piece of Americana and an overlooked chapter in whaling history.
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