charles ladds (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 223 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Noticeable cracking to gutters. Binding is weakened. Thumb-marking and staining present throughout. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends, fraying to cloth and rub wear all over. Heavy water staining to spine and boards. Lettering is obscured. Book is bowed.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Undated, 4th thousand, circa 1940's, fair condition, heavy wear to spine/cracking & loss, wear to cover edges/corners, owners details written inside (1944).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Australian Edition. 18.5cm x 13cm. 223 pages. Grey cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket. Charles Ladds (1903-1971) was an Australian writer who ran away to sea at the age of fourteen, and at the ripe old age of twenty-two wrote this story of his adventures, fist published in 1934. It earned praise from the critics, including G. K. Chesterton. He later lived at Burleigh Heads. Very minor discolouration to cloth. Head and tail of spine lightly pushed. Minor rubbing to edges of boards. Very minor foxing to endpapers and jacket verso. Minor chipping to top edge of jacket. Category: Ships & the Sea; Countries::Australia; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 0024239.