forester john wetherell (16 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. John Wetherell, illustrator (illustrateur). Stated First Edition. Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean orange cloth boards with sailing ship decoration on cover, brown title box with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper. Decorated endpapers. Pages and edges are clean. Illustrations by John Wetherelll, 19th century British seaman and author of this authentic diary. Edited and with an Introduction by C. S. Forester. 379 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has a few tiny chips to spine; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Sepia Tone Illus (illustrateur). 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/lite war, unclipped price, in mylar; rusr c w/browngilt titles; illustrated end papers; 379 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. Edited and with an Introduction by C.S. Forester. Very Good in a Fair jacket, clipped, generally toned, larger chips on the spine and rear panel, some tape repairs. Orange cloth, lightly faded at the edges. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the second front endpaper, clean otherwise. Wetherell's diary during his time fighting for the British during the Napoleonic Wars.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American Edition. 379pp. Illustrations. A tight, VG copy in a VG dust jacket but for a small chip at the crown of the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 276 pp illustrated Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (couple of small closed tears at corners) Previous owner's inscription on first blank page.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Stated First Edition. Price clipped DJ has insect damage (book unaffected), some soiling, chipped head if spine ; Sepia plates of drawings by Wetherell, illustrated endpapers, DJ in Mylar, hinges intact; 379 pages; Autobiography of John Wetherell. Born in Whitby in 1780, Wetherell first joined the British merchant navy serving and trained and qualified as a ships's carpenter, before being impressed into the Royal Navy. He saw service on HMS Hussar, but after she went aground on the coast of France he was captured and made a prisoner-of-war and spent most of the next eleven years at Charlemont Givet Prison.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are good with only mild shelf/rub wear. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- The Authentic Diary of a 19th Century British Seaman - Edited and with an introduction by C. S. Forester. . .

Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. John Wetherell (illustrateur). First Edition. THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN WETHERELL Edited with an Introduction by C. S. Forester. Michael joseph, London 1954 First edition. 276pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in very good condition bound in red cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine and decorative cartouche to the front. The price clipped dust wrapper has a little edge wear but is other wise fine. First published in 1954, The Adventures of John Wetherell, is part of a much larger manuscript professing to be a diary kept by seaman John Porritt Wetherell, a native of Whitby, England who was born in 1780 and died sometime after 1834. John Wetherell's records of his nautical life have been long sought after by readers interested in this period of history, and fortunately C. S. Forester acquired the manuscript and selected the most well-written and unforgettable passages for publication in this book. The Adventures of John Wetherell focuses on the period when he was pressed into service on the HMS Hussar and was held captive as a prisoner of war in Givet, France after the Hussar was shipwrecked. For many, life on board ship during the early 19th century was almost unendurable, and although John Wetherell served under a particularly brutal captain, his situation was not atypical. In contrast, life as a prisoner of war, though no picnic, had it's advantages. Though prisoners in Givet often suffered from lack of exercise, most had enough to eat and a place to sleep and were able practice, their trades (or learn new ones) and do business with townspeople, learn subjects like French, navigation, and music, form bands, and even marry. Over 2300 British seamen survived over 10 years of imprisonment in Givet and were marched back through France with their divisions, billeted in small towns - the prison band often performing wherever they stayed - before eventually returning to England and the homes and lives they treasured so dearly. An observant and sensitive account, John Wetherell's diary is a tribute to the fortitude and spirit of those courageous seamen. Ref BB3.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First Edition. The diary of a 19th Century British seaman in the Napoleonic Wars at sea. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a small horizontal spine chip and is prize clipped, but otherwise whole, bright and clean, and protected by a plastic Brodart cover. As is, an attractive copy.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Thus. Immaculate copy. Fine in near fine dust jacket. No previous owner markings or bookplates. No jacket chips and not price-clipped. Jacket is very slightly darkened along spine and has a few tiny edgetears along spine ends. Book.

Hard with Dust Jacket. Etat : Very good in good+ dust jacket. With 7 plates illustrating drawings by the author. (illustrateur). First impression. Very good in good+ dust jacket. DJ a little chipped to head and tail of spine. Rear panel a little marked. Bookplate to front pastedown. 275pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First English edition (U.S. edition precedes). Owner's stamp on the half-title, else about fine in very good dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel and a little ink remnant on the rear panel.

First Edition. VG+/VG- (minus) , book front board lightly scraped, two small dark smudges top rear board, front/spine/rear board top edges lightly faded, previous ownerÕs name & address fep. DJ spine darkened, some mild cornerwear, head/foot of spine slightly creased and worn, rear panel rubbed, small light spot front panel, small piece missing top corner rear inside flap. Overall a tight solid sound copy with DJ protected in mylar. ; 8vo, brown cloth, dec. Eps, unclipped DJ, 379pp. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Garden City/New York, 1953. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in a price-clipped jacket (not book club edition). Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a couple short closed tears at extremities, and a darkened spine (as pictured). Dust jacket designed by Edward Gorey. Illustrations by the author, Wetherell. F3000A.

Hard Cover. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG-. First Edition. VG+/VG-. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & flecked, occ. spots & marks, else clean and bright throughout) in dustwrapper priced 18s. net (a little rubbed and frayed, closed tear to top edge front panel, slightly sunned & toned); pp. 276 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. 275pp, illustrated. Wetherell was a 19C seaman born in Whitby, with a life at sea and he was impressed into the navy against Bonaparte. Clean and tight in unclipped wrapper. 800g.