BLOW THE MAN DOWN! A Yankee Seaman's Adventures Under Sail. by Williams, James H.; Kuchl, Warren F. (Editor) - 1959

New York:E.P. Dutton & Co., 1959. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.  1959. 1st edition. 255pp.  Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Boards lightly shelfworn with edge points gentle bumped. Internally, a very good, clean copy.  The dust jacket, lightly worn at edges, still very good.  *From the dust jacket..."A weathered manuscript discovered among old papers was the foundation of this powerful book.James H. Williams' spellbinding recollections of his adventures before the mast in sailing-ship days bring alive again that grueling but romantic era on the seas. Though he called himself a common sailor, James H. Williams (1864-1927) was a most uncommon man. A Negro seaman with reddish hair, he left his Massachusetts home to go to sea at the age of eleven..."