Last Days of Sail on the West Coast; San Francisco Harbor
(James Berry Co, San Francisco, 1929). First Edition. Octavo. Item #014228
38p. index. Colored frontispiece. While during this period, the sailing ship has been superseded by steam on the principal sea routes. This book attempts to provide how many sailing ships sail, and from what nations, their present occupation, if any, and other facts and figures. Bound in blue pictorial gilt cloth lettered in gilt, two small nicks to fore-edge of front endpaper and half title page, with bookseller label in endpaper at rear "Newbegins, San Francisco" 3/20/1929, else near fine copy.in the rare pictorial dust jacket with a few chipped to spine ends and top edges.
Price: $85.00