Privately printed
The Cruise of the Forest Home; or, Chronicle of a Pleasure Trip to Mount Desert.
New York: Francis Hart and Company, Printers, 1866.
First edition. 173 pp. 8vo. Privately printed. Original cloth, front joint cracked but holding nicely, some minor soiling, bookplate to front pastedown, spine and upper board gilt, some very minor dampstaining to margin of first few leaves Not in Toy; Not in Morris and Howland. Item #301956
Scarce privately printed account of a cruise from New York up the east coast to Mount Desert, Maine. The party numbered 19 passengers (six of whom were women) and a crew of seven. Commencing on July 19, 1865, this high-spirited account includes a day by day account of the voyage.
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