Item #885 The Old Merchant Marine, A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors. Ralph D. Paine.
The Old Merchant Marine, A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors

The Old Merchant Marine, A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors

London: Yale University, 1919. Illustrated with eleven gravure plates. Abraham Lincoln edition: Volume 36 of The Chronicles of America Series, Allen Johnson, Editor. 8vo. 8-1/16" x 5-1/4". Lovely green cloth covered boards decorated in gold and white. 214 pp. including index. Extensive bibliography. Decorated title page printed in blue and black. Top edge gilt. Fine. Item #885

Affixed to free front endpaper is the bookplate of William Russell Grace, Jr. (1878-1943) son of the founder of the W. R. Grace Co., originally established in 1854 in Peru as a cargo shipping company.

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