VERCEL Roger. Fishermen of the four seas. Nantes, Imprimerie Moderne de Nantes, Beuchet et Vanden Brugge, 1958. A volume in-4 oblong paperback in a filled cardboard cover titled and illustrated with a wind rose on the first cover. Illustrations in and out of text in black and in colors by Albert Brenet, Marin-Marie and Mathurin Méheut, headbands and tailpieces in black by Mathurin Méheut. Illustrated endpapers in bistre. Copy constituting the first edition and reserved for the committee of the Calvaries of the sailors of Boulogne sur mer. In a cardboard slipcase. (stains on the cover, spine faded)

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