The Moonrakers: The Story of the Clipper Ship Men [Inscribed and Signed]
Author: Robert Carse; Ray Houlihan [illus.]
Title: The Moonrakers: The Story of the Clipper Ship Men [Inscribed and Signed]
Publication: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961
Description: Near Fine / Very Good.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,[2],176pp.; illus. throughout text, many full-paged. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with a few short closed tears and subsequent creasing, light foxing to flap folds, spine very slightly cocked, Very Good or better in Very Good jacket.
From upper jacket panel: "A vivid narrative of the years when American clipper ships drove round Cape Horn to Frisco, making fortunes in the China tea and opium trade."
Lengthy author inscription to half title page: "This is for, Betty and Henry, but Henry in particular. It is his ideas about the Port of New York that ended up in the form you have here. / Robert Carse / New York / January, 1961." Poor Betty.
Seller ID: 7507
Subject: 19th Century, 20th Century, Children's Literature, Nautical & Maritime, New York, Signed
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