Pigboats by Commander Edward Ellsberg. Dodd, Mead & Company.

Pigboats by Commander Edward Ellsberg. Dodd, Mead & Company. (1931) Hard cover with dust jacket. A printing after 1949 with an advertisement for 'No Banners, No Bugles' on the back panel of dj which was published in 1949. DUST JACKET: Some surface abrasion on the front panel only effecting one of the letters of the front. A bump on the bottom of the spine with a small chip. Otherwise, no clips (not price-clipped) unusual folds or missing pieces. Now protected in a mylar dj cover. BOOK: Light edge wear to bottom of the cover. Light foxing to otp and bottom of page block, heavier foxing to leading edge of page block. Light tanning inside front cover apparently from acidic papers that were stored inide the front cover. Otherwise no previous owner markings. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Pages have no creeases, folds or dog-earing in fact pages are so clean and white that before looking closer, I thought this book was a facsimile first edition. Not ex-library, not remaind