Bookfinder only came up with one (expensive) copy of "King's Book of Chanties", but showed two other books by Stanton H. King - "Dog Watches at Sea" and "A Bunch of Rope Yarns". It also threw up a couple of references to current offers on eBay (UK) - two sellers, slightly different descriptions:-

DOG WATCHES AT SEA - STANTON H. KING * AUDIOBOOK MP3 CD

"Dog Watches at Sea
Audiobook MP3 CD

Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors' Haven, Boston, Massachusetts and became its director. He was also a renowned Chantie singer and, in 1918, King's Book Of Chanties was published. King views the sailing life from "before the mast", that is, through the eyes of the common sailor.

By Stanton H. King

This high quality recording is in MP3 format, you can listen to your Audiobook on your computer / laptop, MP3 compatible CD player or you can easily transfer these to your iPod / MP3 media player or any other MP3 compatible device.

Chapters: 16

Format: MP3

Running time: 7 Hrs 35 Mins

THIS ITEM WILL BE DELIVERED ON CD"

Exculpatory note follows:-

"Note to eBay: These recordings are from the Writers Original Work, which is now in The Public Domain. They are read by Modern Readers who placed these recordings in The Public Domain. They are not copies of any other "copyrighted commercially available recordings" and as such they do not infringe any copyrights."

DOG WATCHES AT SEA by Stanton H. King audiobook Mp3 CD £2.49

"Dog Watches at Sea

by Stanton H. King

Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors' Haven, Boston, Massachusetts and became its director. He was also a renowned Chantie singer and, in 1918, King's Book Of Chanties was published. King views the sailing life from "before the mast", that is, through the eyes of the common sailor. (Summary by Peter Kelleher)




Read by Peter Kelleher

Approx runtime 7+ hrs"

In very small print is appended

"NOTICE:
To Whom It May Concern (inc. Ebay's VeRo Team and The Publishers Association).

These CD's are made from files originating from librivox.org and are in the public domain.
Although LibriVox condones the selling of these CD's, it has nothing to do with the selling of these CD's."

An eBay (US) seller has this on offer in two formats, 8x Audio CDs or one MP3 CD, also stating the source as LibriVox.

I hadn't come across LibriVox before. Its stated objective is "To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet." Here's a link: http://librivox.org/

Anybody found any of these?

Ross