The Loss Of The Ship Essex Sunk By A Whale The Ordeal Of The Crew In Open Boats

Nantucket, Mass.: The Nantucket Historical Association, 1984. First Edition. Fine in full, dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the front board. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. Signed on the title page by the two editors, Helen Winslow Chase and Edourard A. Stackpole. 87 pages of text and illustrated with 16 plates from earlier works of art and images from photographs. The author, Thomas Nickerson, was the last of the open boat survivors. It was this event that Melville based his story Moby Dick. (Inventory #: TB33637)