The Cruise of the Dry Dock

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1917). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's embossed green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 345pp; color frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of plates. Tight, straight, and clean, with a bit of aging to text paper. A Very Good or better copy in the original publisher's cloth.

Very nice copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book, a juvenile adventure novel. Reputedly (by Stribling's own estimation) no more than 250 copies were printed (see Ahearn, Book Collecting 2000: A Comprehensive Guide, p.410).