Blow the Man Down!: A Yankee Seaman's Adventures Under Sail

New York: Dutton, 1959.

Price: $50.00

Hardcover. First edition. 255pp., illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine, very slight mottling to the boards in very good or better dustwrapper with some rubbing and short tears. An autobiographical narrative based on the writings of Williams, a black man who went to sea at age eleven and lived a remarkably adventurous life. After his death in 1927 a manuscript of his adventures was found among his effects and was the basis for this book.

Item #16416

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Item #16416 Blow the Man Down!: A Yankee Seaman's Adventures Under Sail. James H. WILLIAMS, Warren F. Kuehl.