adventures john wetherell von edited forester (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover in fair condition. Ex-Library. Inside pages slightly loose from spine. Very readable. 275 pages.

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.

Cloth. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Very good in good+ dust jacket. With 7 plates illustrating drawings by the author. (illustrator). 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.