Inscribed to Bill Starr
Diary Kept by Joseph McAleenan for a Cruise for Sword-Fish in the Month of July, 1916.
New York: Privately Printed by the Author and His Friends [by H.S. Nichols, New York], 1922.
First edition, no. 19 of 50 numbered copies. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. [i-ii] blank, [iii]-[xvi], [xvii-xviii] half-title, 1-115, [116, blank], [117] printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Bill Starr. Original dark green cloth gilt. Some rubbing to spine ends, a few spots to lower board. About very good Bruns M-91 (without title or full description); Heller 2:363. Item #366558
Inscribed by the author to one of the participants on the cruise, William Ireland Starr: “Dear Bill, may this tale of my friends and stalling sails come back to you as you read, Joe”.
Bill Starr steps forth from his berth on the May F. Patterson on page two, “radiant in white duck”, and figures throughout McAleenan’s narrative of the voyage.
With a typed note, signed “Billy”, conveying the book to a friend at Christmas 1954: “I do not need this diary to recall the pleasant incidents of this foggy cruise so I am offering it as an addition to your marine library”.
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