A Winter's Tale

Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1976. 1st. very good/good.  The wreck of the Florizel in 1918 on the shore of Newfoundland was one of the most senseless disasters of Canadian maritime history. Brown’s book recounts the events and proposes a reason for the disaster.

Toronto: Doubleday, 1976.. It was a snowy, stormy night, that February 23, 1918, when the sturdy S.S.Florizel steamed out of St.John's harbor, bound for Halifax and New York. Captain William Martin, a cautious and competent skipper, encountered sish ice and heavy winds as he headed down the treacherous Newfoundland coast...Just before dawn, over none hours after leaving port, Captain… Ler mais sobre este item

Doubleday, 1976, 1st. VG/VG-. Spine tiny bit cocked; trace of shelfwear; heel bumped; small label pasted front fixed endpaper; trace of soiling. DJ w/ bit of rubbing/edgewear/soiling; few tiny dings/chips; in new Brodart protector. Illustrated with a few B&W photo plates. 000022331

Doubleday Canada Limited, Toronto, 1976, Very Good Hardcover / Poor Dustjacket, 275 pages, 5.75" x 8.5", 16 pages of black & white photos.

One sketch map and black & white photo illustrations

Toronto: Doubleday Canada [0-385-12570-4] 1976, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 276pp. Photographs, map, appendices. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Locale: Newfoundland. (Transportation, Florizel--Steam Ship, Shipwrecks).

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1976-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Saint John's, NF, Canada: Flanker Press Limited, 2003. -----Large soft cover, tight square and clean, no names, (xi) 276 pages plus 16 pages of b & w photos, with map, minor edge wear. "Just before dawn, over nine hours after leaving port, Captain Martin ran his ship full steam onto the rocks just north of Cape Race. But that was… Ler mais sobre este item

Canada: Doubleday Canada Limited. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Inking on front panel. Light rubbing along panel edges. Light bumping at spine crown. .

Toronto ON: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1988. 276 pages. Shipwreck off Newfoundland in 1918. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and a map. Pages good condition, clean. Blue and grey card cover illustrated on upper cover. Edges very lightly worn VG+. Soft Cover.

doubleday, 1988 reprint. very good - fine trade paperback