Suwarrow Gold and Other Stories of the Great South Sea

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No signatures. Some foxing to page edges some dust-stains to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Scarce title. "First cheap edition" printed on front flap of dust-jacket. Printed pages are the same as for the first edition, but this edition has slightly thinner boards, c. 1.7mm in width compared with c. 2.5mm in width for the first edition). The cloth is also different. Dust-jacket front flap has a printed price of "3s 6d net" with a red "7/6" sticker overlaid. Price clipped from lower corner of front flap of dust-jacket. Rear panel of dust-jacket has extracts from five reviews of this title (the rear panel of the first edition dust-jacket is blank). 253, [3 (blank)] pages. Maps on endpapers. Tan cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 199 x 133mm. A collection made by Cowan of true accounts of nautical adventures and episodes in the Pacific. "Just in time, before the older generation of South Sea adventurers has died out, Mr. Cowan has assembled his memories, at first and second hand, of the traders in the islands when life was wilder and more romantic than it will ever be again [. . .] there is here a wealth of anecdote and narrative about the slavers and pirates, the sandal-wooders and treasure-hunters and castaways of the South Seas as a passing generation knew them." - from dust-jacket blurb. Selected chapter titles: The Slave Ships of Callao; Suwarrow Gold: The Story of a Treasure Atoll; The Cutting-Off of the 'Borealis'; The Island Seekers; Port of Pitcairn: The Story of Rosalind Young; The Story of Apia Beach; Pirates!; The Mutineers of the Caswell; Tuatara Island; The Wizard Goes Sailing. N° de ref. del artículo 24681

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