NMLP P-036050 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket

Owen Chase · W. B. Gilley (New York) · 1821

The true first edition is a slim volume of 128 pages in 12mo, published by W. B. Gilley at 92 Broadway, New York, only months after Chase's rescue and return to Nantucket, and it is standardly cited in the trade under Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana number 12189

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036050 for "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket" by Owen Chase (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036050, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).