From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. viii + 222 pp. + [2] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original grey cloth, gilt with coloured block. Extremities worn, spine darkened and fly leaves browned and, and a little stained at rear; otherwise a very good copy. Early Sunday School prize inscription on first free endpaper. Illustrated by Woodbury print portrait frontispiece. Decorated by vignette initial. Edited autobiographical account of the seafaring life of Captain James Payen (born Barking, Essex,1809). It includes his early career as a fisherman and his world-wide service in the merchant marine, including that of the East India Company and his adventures ashore. MARITIME AUTOBIOGRAPHY MARITIME AUTOBIOGRAPHY MEMOIRS 19TH CENTURY MARITIME. Seller Inventory # 25591
Bibliographic Details
Title: A TANGLED YARN. CAPTAIN JAMES PAYEN'S LIFE ...
Publisher: Charles H. Kelly, 2, Castle St., City Rd., and 66, Paternoster Row, E.C., London
Publication Date: 1891
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