adventures john wetherell de forester c s edited introduction (10 résultats)

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.

Cloth. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. 275pp., red cloth with gilt lettering, slight bumping and rubbing to extremities, page edges foxing, illustrated eps slightly foxed, very good internally. Dustjacket is unclipped, slight loss to top of spine, spine faded, edgewear, creasing and small tears to edges, some discolouration and mainly internal foxing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition (preceding the UK edition). Jacket design by Edward S. Gorey. 379pp. Illustrated with plates. Slightly musty, topedge lightly foxed, bottom edge with a faint stain, very good in a very good dust jacket with light tanning and minor edgewear. "The authentic diary of a 19th century British seaman.".

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Book has light edge fading. DJ has light edge wear. Illustrated with eight sepia drawings from the diary. End-papers are two pages from the diary also. "The Authentic Diary of a 19th Century British Seaman, Impressed into His Majesty's Service to Fight Bonaparte With Drawings by the Author." The diary covers the years 1803-1815.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is mildly age-toned with light rubbing to spine edges. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 275 pages. The diary of a British seaman who was pressed into the navy to fight the French at the beginning of the 19th century.

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.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. The Adventures of John Wetherell. Previous owners name and date written neatly to inside cover. Red cloth with gilt lettering. John Wetherell was a native of Whitby, one of thirteen children of Nathan Wetherell, a wahling captain. He was born in 1780, and his father died in 1789 - killed, according to Wetherell, in a skirmish with Eskimos in Davis Stait. Wetherell himself died, probably in New York, sometime after 1834. He left behind him an autobiogtaphy, in three volumes of manuscript amoutningaltogether to a thousand pages. Illustrated. 275 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. First. First Edition. Hardcover with Unclipped Dust Jacket (18s. Net); Book in Near Fine Condition; DJ in Good+ Condition. Ruby cloth with titles in gilt on spine and gilt emblem at bottom of front board. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Very slight shelf wear to edges. DJ has edge wear and small tears/chips.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. A near fine first edition hardcover copy in a good plus dustcover. Some light rubbing on the dustcover but with a straight spine, a tight binding and clean, bright and spotting-free pages. Please see photos.