First Edition, 1933, Green Cloth Hardcover, 290 pages, stated First Printing. With its Sequel The Dussantes.Illustrated by George Richards.Decorative endpapers. Black and white illustrations. Split at top of spine. A couple of light marks on outside cover. Inside pages clean and binding is tight.The classic story of the fabulous voyagings, shipwreck, and remarkable adventures of two self-possessed and unflappable widows from the Midwest, who had been on their way to visit a son in Japan, when the steamship had a collision and had to be abandoned.