Shelfmark
CS.1313.07
Author
Title
Many cargoes / by W.W. Jacobs.
Edition
Twenty-sixth edition
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Methuen & Co., 36 Essex Street W.C., 1902.
Physical description
[8], 247, 40 p. ; 20 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
"Plymouth: William Brendon and Son, Printers"--Colophon.
Note
Includes 40 p. of advertisements at the end.
Formatted contents note
Contents: A change of treatment -- A love passage -- The captain's exploit -- Contraband of war -- A black affair -- The skipper of the "Osprey" -- In borrowed plumes -- The boatswain's watch -- Low water -- In mid-Atlantic -- After the inquest -- In Limehouse Reach -- An elaborate elopement -- The cook of the "Gannet" -- A benefit performance -- A case of desertion -- Outsailed -- Mated -- The rival beauties -- Mrs. Bunker's chaperon -- A harbour of refuge.
Provenance
Ms. price and annotations in pencil on the front flyleaf and back pastedown.
Binding
20th century original reddish-brown cloth covered boards; black lettering and illustration on the front cover; gilt lettering and black illustration on the spine; uncut fore and bottom edge; blank endpapers; bound by Latarche's Cosmopolitan Library & Fanci Goods Depot, 63 Lime Street, Liverpool (binder's red stamp on the front pastedown).
Subject
Short stories, English.
Subject
Sailors Fiction.
Subject
Humorous stories, English.
Subject
England Social life and customs Fiction.
Genre/Form
Short stories.
Added entry--name
Methuen & Co publisher.
Added entry--name
William Brendon and Son printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53831