• Blue Water Vagabond by Dennis Puleston, 1939 hardcover - front of book with close-up of the author's signature on the laid-in letter
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Blue Water Vagabond: Six Years' Adventure at Sea (with Signed Letter)

Blue Water Vagabond: Six Years' Adventure at Sea (with Signed Letter)

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Condition: Acceptable

Book Notes: Spine cloth is torn; blue and cream striped cloth boards are heavily worn, with wear to the spine ends and corners. No dust jacket. Binding is intact. Page edges are toned. Foxing and toning to the endpapers and title page. Armorial bookplate pasted on the front pastedown, with a pencil mark. Laid in: a one-page handwritten letter signed "Dennis Puleston," from 19 Meadow Lane, Brookhaven, NY, dated January 4, 1996, addressed "Dear Melita." In it he thanks her for her letter and fax sent to him aboard Polaris during its cruise around South America, explains that he missed the cruise because of an old injury from an amphibious landing on the Burma coast in World War II, mentions his coming eighth transatlantic voyage on Polaris from Antigua to Lisbon, and thanks her for her wishes on his 90th birthday.

Author(s): Dennis Puleston

Publication year: 1939

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company

Condition: Acceptable
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Dennis Puleston's account of six years of sailing around the world. In 1931 he left a banking job in London and set out in a 31-foot sailboat; over the following years he was wrecked off Cape Hatteras, hunted treasure on the Silver Shoals, came down with malaria and was captured by cannibals in the New Hebrides, and finally found himself stranded in Peking by the Sino-Japanese War. This 1939 Doubleday, Doran hardcover comes with a handwritten letter signed by Puleston in 1996.

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