Biographie

1933 · 029966 — New York: D. Appleton-Century Company 1933. Very Good condition. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. All other pages are clean and unmarked. Bright and shiny. Minor flaking of gilt lettering on the spine as usual. Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hinges are PERFECT. 1933. First American Edition with "First Printing" so stated and the 1 at the end of the last page of text. Bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth. "Captain Dingle wrote primarily under two names the abbreviated Captain A. E. Dingle and the pseudonym "Sinbad." He wrote mostly adventurous yarns of the sea for British and American story papers and pulps. Nowadays he's almost forgotten except by pulp collectors and Sherlock Holmes buffs… WHO WAS WHO reveals that Dingle first went to sea at the age of 14 and commanded both sail and steam ship until the age of 40. He began writing for American magazines eventually returning to England in 1930. As well as writing novels and short stories he was a frequent broadcaster and sailed his own schooner yacht in ocean races. At various times in his life he built gasworks managed a rope factory… was footman for J. Pierpont Morgan the American financier sold dictionaries to Negroes living in New York and was a labourer in Thames Ironworks shipyard." -- Bear Alley Books. "His last command was shipwrecked which indirectly led to his becoming a writer. He was coming from Australia on the Mara with a load of frozen lamb. Drippings from the refrigerators had accumulated in the bilge the lowest compartment on a ship where the two sides meet at the keel so he ordered the sea cocks opened to let in sea water to reduce the smell. A minute later the ship exploded under him - the sea water had somehow reached the boilers - and he was thrown from the ship and rescued by an American schooner. As a result of this incident he lost his master's papers and without them could not get other jobs at sea. This was in 1911. A friend convinced him that New York had more opportunities than England so he sold his home left the cash with his family and landed in New York after working his way across as a waiter on a steamer." - Pulp Flakes. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. ix 383pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. D. Appleton-Century Company Hardcover