Draggerman's Haul: The personal history of a Connecticut fishing captain 1950 Ellery Thompson ~ Mystic, Stonington, Groton, New London

Title: Draggerman's Haul: The personal history of a Connecticut fishing captain

Author: Ellery Thompson

Description: First edition (first printing, May 1950). Goldrenrod cloth with black lettering on spine and boat pictorial on front cover. Front and rear endpapers illustrated with photographs of the author at work. Unmarked, but pages are dampstained throughout along their top edge. Dust jacket shows moderate edge-worn; top margins of the front and rear flaps are dampstained; not price clipped; in a new archival mylar sleeve. pp. vi, 277.

An uncommon, but flawed, first edition copy of the autobiography of the Connecticut fishing captain, author, and maritime painter, Ellery Franklin Thompson (1899-1986). Draggerman's Haul was his first book and describes his life and experiences as a fisherman in the waters off Connecticut and up to Nantucket, between the years 1914 and 1949. Includes a chapter on rum-running during Prohibition and a chapter on his early painting during the Great Depression.

Ellery Thompson lived and worked in the Connecticut shore towns of Stonington, Groton, Mystic and New London. His paintings have been exhibited at the Mystic Seaport Museum, New Bedford Museum, Stonington Historical Society, and the Custom House Maritime Museum in New London.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good–
Jacket Condition: Good–

Publisher: The Viking Press
Place: New York
Year: 1950

Keywords: Connecticut, fishing, fishermen, maritime, artist, painter, Block Island Sound, Mystic, Stonington, Groton, New London, Quiambaug, New England,