collyer moses (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday sale item)* 27 pp., Paperback, new. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. Stapled binding. 50pp. Covers slightly worn. A rather pleasing copy. (p18).

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. Illustrated. (illustrator). Good (some wear & browning covers with white stamping mostly worn away; contents clean & tight with small crease front blank page & ink name of "Edward G. Brownlee" on two pages). Small 8vo., decorative blue cloth, stamped in white; 171 pages. In a home-made white paper dust jacket with tipped-on titles First Edition. Printed slip tipped to front endpaper: ?With the Compliments of the Author.? Then, signed in ink by Verplanck. An historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the 19th century, with a record of their names, together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North River sailing masters. William Edward Verplanck was a scion of the famous New York Verplanck family, which traces its history back to the New Netherlands Colony (now New York & New Jersey) from Holland. The Verplancks became quite prosperous and built a mansion on Wall Street in Manhattan. Around 1730, a colonial-style fieldstone house was built at Fishkill Landing on the Rombout Patent land on the Hudson River. Collyer was a riverboat captain from 1899 until his death in 1942, He cowrote ?The Sloops of the Hudson?- a memoir and history of the years when sailboats were the primary means of getting up and down the river. An exhaustive and complete work that drew on Collyer's background in a river-faring family, it is today considered the definitive history of that era and its boats. A scarce book, seldom found in nice condition. Signed.