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[WHALING] CHASE, Owen.
Narrative of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket which was Destroyed by a Whale in the Pacific Ocean in the Year 1819 told by Owen Chase First Mate Thomas Chappel Second Mate and George Pollard Captain of the Said Vessel….
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.
Folio, with 12 engravings by Robert Gibbings; original green and yellow cloth, with a little rubbing to binding, otherwise good.
The Golden Cockerel Press edition of this classic Pacific whaling rarity: the account of the famous Essex shipwreck, whose sinking by a whale was, apart from being a sensational story in its own right, a landmark in American literature as the inspiration for the climax of Melville's Moby Dick.
This edition was limited to 275 copies, illustrated with wonderful wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.
Forster, 17; Hill, p.50; Howes, 318 ('c'); Huntress, 205C; Starbuck, p. 228; Whaling Masters, p.223.
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