Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy 1912-1913

Robert Cushman Murphy

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1947

Stated First printing of the First Edition of 1947. The book is bound in teal color cloth with illustration of the whaling brig "Daisy" in black on the front cover. There is light soiling on the covers. Corners have a touch of rubbing wear and spine caps are softened. Inscribed by the author to his friend Eric Gugler on the first free endpaper. Otherwise, pages are clean, smooth and unmarked. The binding is firm. The author was an American Ornithologist. This was his personal log modeled, he said, after the journal of "youthful Darwin", and written for his young bride while he was on a year long voyage to the edge of Antarctica . The trip, on a whaling and sealing brig out of New Bedford, was funded by the Museum of Natural History, New York, and Murphy kept a separated scientific log of specimens he collected for research. He would go on to become Lamont Curator of Birds at the museum and author the classic work-' Birds of South America'. The cover illustration of the Daisy was reproduced from a painting by American artist and knot expert Clifford Ashley, also a personal friend of the author, as noted in the preface. 290 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1709139106112

Bibliographic Details

Title: Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy 1912-...
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Publication Date: 1947
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition