Item #168580 THE WANDERER OF LIVERPOOL. John Masefield.

THE WANDERER OF LIVERPOOL.

Pp. [viii]+120(last colophon), frontispiece, plus 15 plates; f'cap. 4to; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards lightly marked and rubbed, the cloth slightly bubbled on upper board near spine, bottom fore-corner of lower board as trifle bruised; dust wrapper, soiled and worn, edges chipped and torn, the back panel detached, piece torn from foot of backstrip and bottom edge of back panel; the free endpapers faintly offset, outer leaves and edges foxed; William Heinemann Limited, London, 1930. First trade edition. Errington A101(a)*Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by author on upper free endpaper. The Wanderer was a four-masted barque built in 1891 by W. H. Potter & Sons, Liverpool. In addition to the prose account, the book contains two tales in verse, of her setting-forth and of her end, some shorter poems of the sea, plus a Masque of Liverpool in verse. Item #168580

Price: $125.00