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1840101592Small juvenile booklet 4" x 3" original printed wrappers with woodcut illustration on top cover woodcut border on wrappers 16 pp. Covers a bit faded and stained a little also a little worn internally a little foxed and soiled but in very good shape for such a fragile item. Although there appear to have been several editions published between 1820 and 1840 of this juvenile work the OCLC seems to find only a few of each one. Written as a poem the story recounts the sinking of a ship and the ill treatment of those on board. Includes three woodcuts in the first couple of pages. OCLC. American Religious Tract Society, books
1891313258Nantucket Ma 1891. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Light fold lines small tears along vertical fold line. Very good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Snow writes in detail of the sinking of the boat and the subsequent rescue effort. Included is a list of names of those saved and by whom. A charming piece of real-life Nantucket romance. Eberstadt 132:497 unknown books
1884WRCLIT79231London etc.: T. Nelson & Sons 1884. 29pp. plus frontis and three plates. Small octavo. Medium blue cloth decorated in plum-red. Illustrations. Two ownership inscriptions on front endsheets and small ink price a couple small brown spots in rear endsheet gutter otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this tale for younger readers centering on the circumstances of a shipwreck off the coast near a town named Scoresby. OCLC locates a total of eight copies including among them two later printings where authorship is attributed to the protagonist. OCLC: 63094062. T. Nelson & Sons hardcover books