NEWBY, Eric.
The Last Grain Race.
First Edition of The Last Grain Race; Signed by Eric Newby
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956.
$975.00
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Item Number: RRB-148373
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First edition of the noted travel writer's classic first book. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated. Boldly signed by Eric Newby on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
In 1938, an eighteen year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel writers of this century. The Last Grain Race is Eric Newby's spellbinding account of this time spent on the Moshulu's last voyage in the Australian grain trade.
The Last Grain Race.
$975.00
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