Original Typescript Captain Salvation by Wallace (1 results)

the author's corrections throughout, some sheets with pasted inserts, pp. [iii], 351, folio, original green cloth binder with corners of claret morocco, the title and author in manuscript to upper board with small drawing of anchor, a little rust around metal clasp and some spots to lower joint, textblock edges a little browned, good. The dedication page with the author's inscription: '"Captain Salvation". Final copy (amended for publication) presented to my friend and associate Russell Palmer, from F.W. Wallace, December 11/1925' - a typed dedication to Palmer is on the same page. Wallace was born in Glasgow to a sailor father, William Wallace, whose love of the sea was inherited by his son - the family emigrated to Canada around 1902, and Frederick Wallace forged a career as a fishing journalist, and then a novelist with a focus on the maritime life he knew through his father, with the Canadian Atlantic as its setting. 'Captain Salvation' is his third novel, preceded also by two collections of short stories and a shipping history - these, as well as a forthcoming further collection of stories, are listed as his 'Previous Books' on the headed label pasted to the inside cover. The present work is perhaps the best-known, and somewhat typical with the career of its hero, Anson Campbell, bearing some parallel to that of the author's father - it was republished on its eightieth anniversary by Grosset & Dunlap. …