On board the Rampatina liner, eleven days and a half out from Liverpool, the usual terrific sensation created by the appearance of the pilot-yacht prevailed. Necks were craned and toes were trodden on as the steamer slackened speed, and a line dexterously thrown by a blue-jerseyed deck-hand was caught by somebody aboard the yacht. The pilot, not insensible to the fact of his being a personage of note, carefully divested his bearded countenance of all expression as he saluted the Captain, and taking from the deck-steward's ...
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On board the Rampatina liner, eleven days and a half out from Liverpool, the usual terrific sensation created by the appearance of the pilot-yacht prevailed. Necks were craned and toes were trodden on as the steamer slackened speed, and a line dexterously thrown by a blue-jerseyed deck-hand was caught by somebody aboard the yacht. The pilot, not insensible to the fact of his being a personage of note, carefully divested his bearded countenance of all expression as he saluted the Captain, and taking from the deck-steward's obsequiously proffered salver a glass containing four-fingers of neat Bourbon whisky, concealed its contents about his person without perceptible emotion, and went up with the First Officer upon the upper bridge as the relieved skipper plunged below.
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Good jacket. First edition. Near fine in a good plus white, yellow and blue dustwrapper depicting a nurse on shipboard staring at the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. A nice copy of a scarce collection of satirical stories, some of them supernatural. The title story is about an elephant that travels first class on shipboard to New York, attended by a pretty nurse. *Bleiler* p. 58.
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Collectible Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Presumed first edition. September, 1915. Blue cloth with gilt titles. 327pp. Irish author Clotilde Graves wrote under her own name as well as under the name Richard Dehan. Scarce. Collectible. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" Tall.