Description

Cornell Maritime Press, New York [Published Date: 1945]. Hardcover, 213 pp. Stated First Edition. Acceptable+ condition/ MISSING dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners of covers and light to moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Small tear to fore-edges of front free end paper and first few pages. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations by "Larry". A fascinating work on speech "which traces the lusty effect of salt-water transfusions on the landsman's language" [NY times review 1945]. This is not a complete dictionary of sea terms but a glossary of [From introduction] "words and phrases developed at sea which have thereafter had some currency upon land either in a literal sense (as describing objects and processes closely related to those employed at sea) or figuratively and with completely different applications. . . . The purpose has been extended somewhat by the inclusion of detailed material on the proper and improper use of certain words in their nautical significance.. [From NY time review 1945] It is interesting to hear soldiers speak of a 'good rig' when they mean an ingenious device, a novel method, even a favorable hand of cards. Miss Colcord's book, showing how such things. Come about, contributes greatly to the enjoyment of the American language. It is quite different from the standard technical glossaries of sea terms; it covers in an affectionate way what one might nowadays call the amphibious phase of speech."