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  "But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?": First edition of Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade; Inscribed by Him to Newspaper Manager Don Carlos Seitz

  SLOCUM, Joshua.

  Voyage of the Liberdade.

  Boston: Press of Robinson & Stephenson, 1890.

  First edition of Slocum's account of his fifty-five days at sea with his wife and sons aboard the 35-foot junk-rig The Liberdade. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt title to the front panel, patterned endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Don C Seitz Brooklyn Eagle with compliments of the author, Joshua Slocum." The recipient, Don Carlos Seitz, was a newspaper manager best known for his long tenure as business manager of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, a position he held from 1898 to 1923 during the paper's most prosperous era. Born in Portage, Ohio, he began his career on the Brooklyn Eagle before joining the World, rising through its advertising department to become business manager, and he was also a prolific author whose works included a notable biography of Pulitzer as well as books on Horace Greeley, pirates, and famous American duels. In very good condition with repairs to pages 15-18. Exceptionally rare signed and inscribed.

  Price: $5,500.00     Item Number: 152088

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