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First edition. Hard cover, 8vo, measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, in blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, the pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Charles Attebery, with mylar protector, 272 pp. Condition: Very Good. Small gift inscription on front fly; price-clipped. Manufacturer's cloth patch to rear board. Otherwise clean, bright and tight. The prolific Massachusetts author, high school teacher, journalist and historian Edward Rowe Snow (1902-1982) wrote more than 40 books on New England coastal history. The current edition contains diverse items on marine travel in Boston Harbor; naval conflict in the War of 1812 between the American ship Chesapeake and the British warship Shannon; the nineteenth century true crime stories of Sarah Meservey and Lizzie Borden; penal codes in seventeenth century Massachusetts; Ben Franklin and the Boston Lighthouse tragedy; the 1872 sinking of the English ship the Royal George; the heroics of Capt. Edmund Burke of Truro as celebrated in 1857 at the Boston Marine Society; breaking news of the Loch Ness Monster, and so much more. Includes 14 pages of black and white photo reproductions and an index.
Ref: MASBO 8590
$45.00