McPhee, John.

LOOKING FOR A SHIP. Signed.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). 1990.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed. McPhee, John. LOOKING FOR A SHIP. Signed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1990). First Edition Signed by John McPhee on the title page. A compelling look at the Merchant Marines, the S. S. Stella Lykes, her crew, her Captain, Paul McHenry Washburn and their forty-two-day run through the Panama Canal to the Pacific coast of South America. 8vo. 242 pp. A fine copy in navy cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. "McPhee makes Captain Paul McHenry Washburn one of the most memorable men of sea literature". Chicago Tribune.

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