THE BOATS OF THE "GLEN-CARRIG". Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript.

First reprint (and first cheap edition) of the William Hope Hodgson's first book. Publisher's original variant light green paper covered boards with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and toning to the board edges. The contents, with toned paper-stock as always are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rare, original dustwrapper that is rubbed and nicked at the extremities and with a small chip at the base of the spine. An attractive example.

The first edition was published in 1907 by Chapman and Hall. A horror story in which the survivors of a shipwreck in the 18th century come to an eerie land of strange life-forms and thence to the Sargasso Sea, with further alien creatures, including humanoid slugs! (Locke: Spectrum of Fantasy; Bleiler).