Puffin Book of Salt-Sea Verse - The Sailor & the Shark, The Sailor's Wife, The Short Straw, Doubletake, Delectable Duchy, The Lugubrious Salubrious Seaside, Gigha, Foghorns, The Black Pebble, The Drowned Spaniel, The Death of Parker, The First Lord's Song
by Causley, Charles (compiled & introduced by); Maitland, Antony (illustrator)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0140308504
- ISBN 13
- 9780140308501
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Harmondsworth: Puffin Books (Penguin), 1978. -----Large soft cover, flat uncreased spine, no names, 272 pages with b & w drawings including at least 19 full page illustrations including frontis all by Antony Maitland, faint edge wear. "Here are poems about sailors, fish & fisherfolk, ships, storms, dreams & treasures, and above all about 'the wild and wasteful ocean' itself, gathered together by the poet, Charles Causley, who has spent all his life near or on th sea." Contents (chapters) include: Intro / The Sea Itself / Creatures of Sea, Land and Sky / On the Beach / Findings and Keepings / I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside / Harbour and Island, Cape and Cliff / Fishing and Fisherfolk / A Life on the Ocean Wave / Vessels / Seaman All / In Deep / Sea-Changes / Lovers False and Lovers True / Dreamers, Solitaries and Survivors / Shipwreck, Storm and Disaster / Wreckers, Invaders, Pirates and Prisoners / Battles and Engagements / Voyagings, Departures and Homecomings / Index of First Lines / Index of Authors. The scan you see is the book you buy. 1st Puffin Books Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Antony Maitland . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008153
- Title
- Puffin Book of Salt-Sea Verse - The Sailor & the Shark, The Sailor's Wife, The Short Straw, Doubletake, Delectable Duchy, The Lugubrious Salubrious Seaside, Gigha, Foghorns, The Black Pebble, The Drowned Spaniel, The Death of Parker, The First Lord's Song
- Author
- Causley, Charles (compiled & introduced by); Maitland, Antony (illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Antony Maitland
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Puffin Books Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0140308504
- ISBN 13
- 9780140308501
- Publisher
- Puffin Books (Penguin)
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- LITERATURE Causley, Charles (compiled & introduced by); Maitland, Antony (illustrator) Puffin Book of Salt-Sea Verse Puffin Books (Penguin) -----Large soft cover, flat uncreased spine, no names, 272 pages with b & w drawings including at least
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Poetry; The Sea;
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