Sealskins For Skin (in original dust jacket)
New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in pink cloth stamped in black. First edition (no statement as is correct). 237 pp. Illustrations. Generally fine, child's ownerhip signature front free endpaper and some offsetting to the endpapers. In very good dust jacket. Young adult novelization of true story from the records of the British Admiralty about Captain Edmund Fanning and his strange adventures with canibals, pirates, storms and shipwrecked mariners. In 1790 he sailed from New York to hunt for seals and carry the skins across the Pacific to China where they would be traded for silk. When he finally returned westward to America, he became the first American to circumnavigate the sorld in that direction. Fine / very good. Item #E19844
Price: $12.00