Before the Wind the Memoir Of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833

New York: Viking Press, 1999. First Edition. First printing Fine in paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Edited by Susan Fels the great-great-granddaughter of Captain Charles Tyng. At the age of 13 Charles Tyng was signed aboard the brig Cordelia in 1808 as a ship's boy by… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1999. A square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original blue boards, with an off-white spine lettered in shiny gold. List of chapter notes. Index. … Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1999. Remainder mark. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). No owner's name or bookplate. A few illustrations. Previously unpublished journal. In 1808 at the age of 13, Charles Tyng began service aboard the brig Cordelia… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin , 2000. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Apart from being a consummate sailor - Tyng sailed around the world half a dozen times - the author was also an engaging storyteller. He first boarded a ship and thirteen years old and then lived life to the full, tussling with pirates, shipwrecks and storms, dropping into opium dens,… Read more about this item

NY: THE VIKING PRESS. OWNER'S INS. TO FFEP, SIGNED BY SUSAN FELS, EDITOR TO TITLE PAGE. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1999.

New York, NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 0670886327 . DJ has a stasin, not affecting book. .

New York: Viking. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. .

NY: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD. NICE, CLEAN COPY. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1976.

Viking, NY c.1999, 1st. 8vo. hardcover, 270pp., F/F $