Three's A Crew, by Katherine Pinkerton. Illustrated. 1st Edition, 1st buying printing.

Kathrene Pinkerton (June 9, 1887 – September 6, 1967) was both a fiction and nonfiction writer whose writings focused on life in the northern wilderness of Canada.

Pinkerton wrote in buying many different mediums of writing, including newspaper and magazine articles, fictional works, and short stories, but her non-fiction works are what she is most known for. Some of her most famous autobiographical books are 'Wilderness Wife' (1939), 'Three's a Crew' (1940), and 'Two Ends to Our Shoestring' (1941). She chose to write from and about her experiences, as much of her content matter revolved around the wilderness that she and her family lived in and explored.

In 1917, the family moved to Colorado and later California, before choosing to live on a fifty-foot boat off British Columbia and the Alaskan coasts from 1924–1931. Originally only intending to live there three months, the family spent those seven years with Kathrene as the mate, Robert as the skipper, and daughter Bobs as the quartermaster (when on vacation from boarding school). During that time, she focused on her writing, having first started to write in 1922.

She passed away in New York from cancer, at 80 years old.

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Carrick & Evans, NY, 1940 (copyright).

1st Edition, 1st Printing.

Profusely illustrated w/ B&W photographs by the Author & Stewart Edward White.

Very Good(+) copy, in a Very Good dust jacket.


Blue cloth, red top-edge, topographical end-papers (Vancouver Island & vicinity), deckled pages, illustrated front cover & spine, silver letters. Spine bumping, head & foot, corners. There is light sun-fading along the edges of the head & foot, where the jacket failed to protect the book. The red top-edge is also sun-faded. Several previous owner's signatures, near top of front free fly (one by RV Eugene Pinkerton); previous seller's price, in pencil, to top corner of the Half-Title Page. Pages are crisp & white on a heavy stock. All gilt is bright. Book is tightly bound, with just a hair of separation at the head. Both hinges are sound. The dust jacket is chipped & torn, mainly at the top & bottom of spine & the corners (all closed). The front flap is price-clipped. Still bright & colorful, now in a ClearBags reusable book jacket. 316 pages.