Mary Celeste: The Odyssey of an Abandoned Ship by Fay, Charles Edey - nd

np: [Atlantic Mutual], nd. Hardcover. Fine blue buckram-bound hardcover with gilt titling to the spine and gilt top-edge in the publisher's card slipcase, also Fine; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "The story of the Mary Celeste--a small, seaworthy, American half-brig found wandering, ghostlike [in 1872], without master or crew, over the waters between the Azores and the coast of Portugal--has continued to allure the interest of people all over the world, and to excite seemingly endless speculation." Drawing on the files of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company and the National Archives, the author lays out "in orderly fashion the salient facts of the story of the Mary Celeste" and suggests "the most probable solution of the most widely known of all marine mysteries which has become the 'cause celebre' in the annals of the sea." Text by Charles Edey Fay; unsigned foreword. Facsimile reprint by Atlantic Mutual, the only surviving insurance company to have underwritten a portion of the voyage of the Mary Celeste. xxvii + 261 pages; 14 b&w plates, a 4-panel gatefold map showing the course of the Mary Celeste, 3 in-text maps, many pages of facsimile documents, and a two-sided, 3-panel gatefold table; 7 x 10.25 inches. 24 appendices, index.