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Burns, George S. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF ROGER WARD
New York Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan 1981 0698204956 / 9780698204959 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen
B&W Illustrations; Children's Book. Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Light pink, almost lavender paper covered boards have black lettering to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. Endpapers are a solid bright white color. =Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing There is one small semi-closed edge tear to the top front edge of the dust jacket, right by two small rectangles of shadowing where a price sticker was removed. There is a two inch long semi-closed tear to the bottom front spine joint of the dust jacket as well. The edges of the dust jacket (the flap edges mostly), have a bit of rubbing and dirt. Overall, a nice bright copy. "In the year of our Lord 1874, while a lad of eighteen, I Roger Ward, shipped as a raw hand aboard the whaling ship Halo. So begins this tale about a young man who innocently set out to sea, having been tricked into believing that the salty breezes would remove an ugly mole from his otherwise attractive face. Little did Roger anticipate the odd happenings that awaited him and the Halo's crewas the ship cleared Boston Bay and began its two year whaling voyage."
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