Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship.

CUTLER, Carl C.

$600.00

Item Number: 131492

New York: Halcyon House, 1930.

First edition of Cutler’s masterwork on the history of the American clipper ship. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, frontispiece. In near fine condition.

Carl Cutler spent his life studying clipper ships and the exploits of the hardy men who took them over the world. Ships like the Sea Witch, Flying Cloud, Champion of the Seas, and Red Jacket ruled the seas for more than a decade, establishing records yet to be broken for their speedy runs across the Atlantic and Pacific, around Cape Horn, and on to China and India. This, the third edition published over 50 years after the first, includes Cutler's Five Hundred Sailing Ship Records of American Built Ships, a premier reference on the subject.