The Nautilus Library no. 24: Strange Tales of the Seven Seas - by J. G. Lockhart
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The 'Nautilus Library' begun in the 1920s, and built up to more than thirty volumes. A few were given slightly different titles but most were classic nautical works issued in a pocket sized edition by Philip Allan, who owned the copyright to many of the original editions.

STRANGE TALES
of the
SEVEN SEAS

BY J. G. LOCKHART

First published 1929 by PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD, London
NAUTILUS LIBRARY No.24 1934 by PHILIP ALLAN & CO. LTD

  

Number 24

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Shiny blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine. Front board has a dark, perhaps ink mark across the nautilus on the front board (which can be seen below), otherwise boards are clean witth just a few signs of shelf wear.  Pages very clean and bright with neat rough cut edges. No foxing. An inked inscription dated 1934 to outer top corner of free front end paper. Condition VERY GOOD with contents excellent. No dust wrapper but free facsimile available if requested.
Price £10.00 plus postage

191 pages. Volumes are 115 mm. wide; 175 tall and about 18 mm. thick. Weight unwrapped approximately 220 grams.		  

A full-size facsimile wrapper which is available free on request with purchase.

Blurb

Strange Tales of the Seven Seas by J. G. Lockhart: In his preface the author says he "resisted with difficulty a last moment temptation to re-christen the book Mutiny and Murder in the Merchant Service. For mutiny is the theme of more than half my stories, and mutiny, as we know, is a desperate, bloody business.

Strange Tales of the Seven Seas by J. G. Lockhart: Shiny blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine. Front board has a dark, perhaps ink mark across the nautilus on the front board otherwise boards are clean with just a few signs of shelf wear. Pass cursor over title page, to right, to reveal image of the front board.

Strange Tales of the Seven Seas by J. G. Lockhart: Pages very clean and bright with neat rough cut edges. No foxing. An inked inscription dated 1934 to outer top corner of free front end paper. Condition VERY GOOD with contents excellent. No dust wrapper but free facsimile available if requested. Remove cursor to revert to image of book’s title page.

CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE MURDER OF GEORGE GLASS
  • THE STORY OF THE `FLOWERY LAND'
  • THE MAN WHO WALKED THE PLANK
  • THE STEWARD OF THE `LENNIE'
  • THE `CASWELL' BARQUE
  • LAST THOUGHTS ON THE `MARY CELESTE'
  • THE RUNNING AMOK IN THE `FRANK N. THAYER'
  • THE `CROOK SHIP'
  • THE FILIPINOS OF THE `ETHEL'
  • THE STRANGE AFFRAY IN THE `LEICESTER CASTLE'
  • THE NEGRO OF THE `VERONICA'
  • MORE ABOUT THE `WARATAH'
  • THE MYSTERY OF THE `WHITE ROSE'
  • WHEN THIEVES FELL OUT
  • THE PILONGS OF THE `TAI ON'

 

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