W W Jacobs - Ship's Company, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1911, Copyright Edition

W W Jacobs - Ship's Company, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1911, Copyright Edition

The book is a collection of humorous short stories focusing on the misadventures of sailors and other dockside characters in London's East End.  The stories are drawn from Jacobs's childhood experiences growing up on the Thames wharves, where his father was a wharf manager.  Characters such as the night watchman and sailors Ginger Dick, Sam Small, and Peter Russet are featured, and they are constantly outwitted by the crafty inhabitants of the London docklands

Patterned cloth in fine condition.  Foxing to cloth.  Rubbed patterned cloth to rear.  Foxing to endpapers.  Tear and chipped to top edge of title page.  Text firm and clean.

Weight   360g.    Pages    287.