Embarcadero by Richard H. Dillon, San Francisco Sea Adventures, 1959 1st Edition
$18.00
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About this book✨
This book is a salt-soaked dive into San Francisco’s maritime underbelly at the turn of the century, when the city’s identity was more of a Pacific port than an American metropolis. Through a baker’s dozen of maritime stories pulled from ships’ logs, manuscripts, newspapers, and historical records, Californian writer Richard H. Dillon resurrects the rough-and-tumble legends of the Embarcadero, San Francisco's central waterfront: pirate Captain Bully Hayes, the audacious Bernard Gilboy who crossed the Pacific without touching land, and the infamous Shanghai Kelly, kidnapper of sailors and mythic rogue. Illustrated with 8 pages of vintage photographs and artwork, this first edition brings the Embarcadero's turn-of-the-century spirit back to life.
Condition✨
1959 first edition published by Coward-McCann. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Clothbound hardcover in very good condition with some light scuffing and shelfwear. Interior is clean and tightly bound. Dust jacket is present but worn, with some tearing and edge chipping—please see photos. A handsome vintage copy of a hard-to-find maritime history classic.