- Seller Inventory #: 8487
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG+/VG
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Julian Messner, Inc.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1956
- Keywords: George Fielding Eliot, Fiction, Romantic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sea Adventure, Sea Stories, Ships, Novel, Romance
New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. VG+/VG. 1956. Hardcover. 13, 30. This Book Club Edition book is clean, straight & tight. It has some light bumping of the spine ends and a small ding on the front edge. The endpapers are decorated with maps and are clean and free of markings as is the entire book. The bright & clean dust jacket has edgewear at the spine ends and an internal mended edge tear. "A lusty and exciting sea story that brings vividly to life, through the experiences of one man and his ship, the birth pains of the steam Navy and the trials of the men who manned it during an era that has never ceased to fire the imaginations of American readers". ; Book Club Edition; 8 1/2" x 6"; 284 pages .