Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light soil. 253 pages. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on the front fly leaf (to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife). Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all black crew, searching the sea for their livelihood and battling the sea for their lives. Musty odor.
