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The Cruise of the Cachalot: Around the World After Sperm Whales / Frank T. Bullen

2015.7.149

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Sperm whale hunting1890s

7-3/4 in

5 in

Frank Thomas Bullen

First American

Appletons' Popular Library

New York

New York

United States

North America

1899

Publisher's Binding- Poster Style

Unidentified Designer

Unknown designer. Bound in green cloth and stamped in black, yellow, white, and gold. The design shows a whaleboat, with harpoon-carrying men, being pulled by a whale not in the scene, beyond the horizon. Title stamped in gold.

Text of letter, dated Nov. 22, 1898, from Rudyard Kipling to the author on p. [vi].

Frank Thomas Bullen

Rudyard Kipling

correspondent.

Frank Thomas Bullen

Rudyard Kipling

correspondent.

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