The Chanty Man Sings

Meloney, William Brown

Verlag: Printed by C. J. O'Brien, New York, 1926

Beschreibung

30 pp, The Last Port of Romance: An Unfinished Poem; The Chanty Man Sings. Reprinted from the Everybody's Magazine (1915). An Edition of Two Hundred Copies of Which This is Number 47: 1926. "William Brown Meloney (1877-1925) was a journalist, writer, executive secretary to Mayor William Jay Gaynor of New York City and a historian of shipping. He was born on June 6, 1877 in San Francisco, California. His grandfathers were a ship captain and a shipbuilder, ran away to sea at the age of eleven. When he was eighteen years old (1896) he became a shipping news and political reporter in San Francisco and also started writing fiction and verse and 'resolved to do what he could to further the establishment of a powerful American merchant fleet.'" Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Decorative paper-covered boards with dark-green backstrip, and white-paper title plate and green lettering to front board and spine. Size: Large 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003876

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Chanty Man Sings

Verlag: Printed by C. J. O'Brien, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1926

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: John Wolcott Adams

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: Limited Edition.

Art des Buches: Book