Sailing Alone Around the World.

SLOCUM (Captain Joshua).

Sailing Alone Around the World.

SIGNED COPY WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ABOARD THE SPRAY

Second edition. Numerous illustrations. 8vo. Bright original publisher’s pictorial cloth. Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper; an ownership signature beneath has been erased. Loosely inserted album leaf with 9 photographs. A little browning to title-page else very good. Text block split at front hinge, before half-title. xviii, 294pp. New York, Century, 1901.

£3,250.00

The inscription is dated Manchester, May 16th 1905. Loosely inserted is a leaf from an album with nine charming 55mm square snapshots, taken of or aboard Slocum’s ship the Spray. Several of these are captioned in ink: The Spray, Capt. Slocum, Bishop’s Light, Capt. Kid & Handsome Lovely. Bishop’s Light is likely the Bishop’s Rock Lighthouse in the Atlantic off the Cornish Coast. The young woman captioned “Capt. Kid” is shown in a relaxed white dress with her hands on the wheel, as well as in a raincoat, the rigging behind her.

Captain Slocum set out from Boston in his small sloop Spray on 24th April, 1895, at the age of 51, and after a passage of 46,000 miles returned to Newport Rhode Island on 27th June, 1898, thereby becoming the first person to sail around the world single-handed.

Not in Ferguson; Toy, 462; Morris & Howland, p.126..

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