Shelfmark
CS.1357.07
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 & Fancy Goods Depot, 63 Lime Street, Liverpool (binder's red stamp on the front pastedown).
Subject
Sailors Fiction.
Subject
England Social life and customs Fiction.
Genre/Form
Sea fiction.
Genre/Form
Short stories.
Genre/Form
Humorous fiction.
Added entry--name
Methuen & Co publisher.
Added entry--name
William Brendon and Son printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53831