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Very Good condition with some fraying to the board corners and edges in a Good dust-jacket wit hscuffing, creasing and some chips missing among other edgewear.

The One Whaling Family is a collection of memoirs by the descendants of a whaling family from 1841 to the present day. Through their personal stories, the authors reveal the dramatic and incremental changes that have transformed whaling from a subsistence activity into a multimillion-dollar industry.; 8vo ; 401 pages; GinsID1218; MOSBY'S RANGERS: A RECORD OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE FORTY-THIRD BATTALION OF VIRGINIA CAVALRY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE SURRENDER. N.Y., 1909. 554pp. Illus. Original cloth. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Howes W498. Nicholson p.932. Dornbusch II:1303: "The plates of the 1896 edition were used through p.473. The best textual edition of this major biography.; OP:150.

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