103758 London, George G. Harrap, 1939 1st. Edition Octavo, original dark blue cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine. Illustrated (art deco)dustwrapper, chipped, short tears, a piece from spine foot missing 2 cm square; Back wrap description of nightmarish voyage in ramshackle whaler off the Californian Coast as a deckhand .in crew of global outcasts. Pp.275 with Portrait Frontispiece, Author's Note. Paper browned else very clean, sound copy. From Eton to Californian Oilfields...to a filthy job .. a picaresque account $55.00AUD
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