Item #29620 The British Tar in Fact and Fiction: the Poetry, Pathos, and Humour of the Sailor's Life. Charles Napier ROBINSON.

The British Tar in Fact and Fiction: the Poetry, Pathos, and Humour of the Sailor's Life.

London: Harper, 1909. Hardcover. Thick octavo. xxiv + 520pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Fore- & bottom-edges uncut. Top-edge-gilt. Color frontis. Numerous b/w plates. Index. 'With introductory chapters on the place of the sea officer and seaman in naval history and historical literature'. Ex-library copy, spine faded, spine ends rubbed, library stamps on page-edges & occasionally throughout, light foxing to prelims, else a solid near-VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #29620

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