Lis Sails the Atlantic
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. First Thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Translated by Klares and Herbert Lewes. 8vo. Pp. 191. Illustrated. Cream cloth lettered in blue. Label "Published in the U.S.A. for Essential Books, Inc. Fairlawn, New Jersey" at foot of title page. Bookseller tag on front free endpaper ("Lauriat's Books" Boston). Dust jacket price-clipped, wear to corners and edges, couple of short closed tears. Fine / Very Good+. Item #11205
No. 22 in The Mariners Library series. First published in 1936 and later reissued in 1953 as part of the series, recounts the true story of an 11-year-old Danish girl who sailed across the Atlantic with her family aboard the ketch Monsoon in 1929. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.
Price: $45.00