signed Hardcover
1930 · London
by [Maritime] [Sea Voyages] Tomlinson, H. M.; Clare Leighton (woodcuts)
London: Duckworth, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. SIGNED. 343pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Olive green cloth over boards with the title stamped in gilt on the backstrip. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edges deckled. The boards are just a tad bowed. In the dust wrapper, with moderate edgewear, and darkening to the spine and along the top edge of the front panel. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils, and thence 2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910.
Of this edition, with a Foreword by the Author and woodcut illustrations by Clare Leighton, 515 copies only have been printed on handmade paper by The Camelot Press Ltd. This copy is number 145. Signed by Tomlinson on the limitation page. (Inventory #: 68068)
Of this edition, with a Foreword by the Author and woodcut illustrations by Clare Leighton, 515 copies only have been printed on handmade paper by The Camelot Press Ltd. This copy is number 145. Signed by Tomlinson on the limitation page. (Inventory #: 68068)
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