2010 The Voyage of the Rose City

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First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

First edition. Limited to one hundred copies of which this is number seventy-six. Signed by his mother, the publisher, Elizabeth Moynihan, with an inscription to the front endpaper. Illustrated throughout by the author. An account of the author's experiences when he took a break from Wesleyan University to work away on the S.S. Rose City, an oil tanker 894 feet long, 105 feet wide and 64 feet deep, whose vast tanks Ordinary Seaman Moynihan had to explore to help fix a possible leak. John McCloskey Moynihan was the son of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American politician and diplomat who represented New York in the United States Senate after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and Elizabeth Moynihan, an American historian and writer.