Port Of Drifting Men. A Saga Of A Texas Seacoast Town And Its People

LEONARD KING

Publication: The Naylor Company Publishers, 1945, San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free fly leaf. Gray cloth, titles in green on the front cover and spine, tan front and rear endpapers, xii, 110 pp., foreword, introduction, illustrated. Illustrative sketches by Arthur and Hilda Elliot. The author seeks the answers to why a group of wandering, homeless men from around the U.S. - he calls them the "Hackberry Club"- have come and settled in Port Isabel which, at the time, was merely a little fishing village at Texas' southernmost tip. Offers the history of Port Isabel and the colorful people and maritime life of this remote Gulf Coast community. King records the history, characters, legends, fishing and shipping activities, and changing fortunes of Port Isabel and the lower Laguna Madre. Particularly interesting is the region’s account of fishing and shrimping traditions.

Former owner's small address label affixed to top of front free fly leaf, light toning to edges of a few preliminary pages, else a very good clean and tight copy in a lightly used dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners and with tiny nicks to the top edges of the front and rear covers.