Edited by j c cook (8 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. First edition. Red wrappers. 95-188pp. Spine lightly tanned and cocked, corners bumped, near fine. Articles, notes and queries, and book reviews by Leonard W. Moss, Stephen C. Cappannari, Merle L. Simmons, Robert Stevenson, Morris E. Opler, Macedward Leach, Ed Cray, Tristram P. Coffin, Americo Paredes, S.J. Sackett, Walter E. Boyer, Leonard Roberts, Howard Mumford Jones, Daniel G. Hoffman, Bela Gunda, Morton Y. Jacobs, Claude M. Simpson, Norman Cazden, Morton H. Levine, Arthur Freeman, Richard M. Dorson, Wolf Leslau, Gertrude P. Kurath, Marshall W. Stearns, Charles O. Frake, David Bidney, Bacil F. Kirtley, Carmen Cook de Leonard, and J. David Sapir. …

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. An unmarked copy.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 360 pages. 9.06x5.98x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 417 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Three volumes, in eight parts bound into eight books. Lacking the supplemental map/print folio. Numerous maps and plates throughout, with many being folding. Folding map in pocket at rear of last volume. Generally a very nice set, though showing a few bumped corners, smudges, et. Due to weight, additional charges will apply for Priority and/or International shipping. …

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original crimson paper covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 62 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. Upper edges a little sun faded, minimal wear to the spine ends, pencilled name and address to the front free end paper. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition colour illustrated dust wrapper with rubs to the spine ends, gutters, fore edges and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0631068007 FOOD [Retail Brands].…

Crown 8vo. & Folio. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, gilt. Volumes 1 and 2 are second printings from 1968 (originally issued in 1955) with the Addenda and Corrigenda incorporated. The remaining volumes are first impressions. Illustrated throughout in black & white and with occasional colour plates including frontispieces. The d/w spines of volumes 1, 2 & 4 are a bit faded and tanned (as usual). Contents clean. Near fine in near fine d/ws. The complete Journals of Captain Cook in very nice condition. 'On the three expeditions which he led to the Pacific between 1768 and his death at Hawaii in 1779, his ships thrice circled the globe; he drew the modern map of the Pacific, and he was the first European seaman to circumnavigate New Zealand, to discover the east coast of Australia, to cross the Antarctic Circle, to chart the north-west coasts of America. [.] The three voyages proclaim his greatness alike as a seaman and navigator, an explorer, a practical scientist, and a leader of men. They were worthily chronicled in his own Journals and charts.' The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, completes the Hakluyt Society edition of the Journals.…

Crown 8vo. & Folio. 6 volumes, set. First impressions. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge of volume 4 is stained blue. Illustrated throughout in black & white and with occasional colour plates including frontispieces. 1. Light foxing to the edges of the text block and the endpapers. Small mark to the top edge of the front of the jacket near the spine. Very good + in near fine d/w. 2. Fine in fine d/w. 3. (1 & 2) Light foxing to the endapers. Near fine in near fine d/ws. 4. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears to the top edge. Near fine in very good + d/w. 5. Portfolio paper cover has very short tears to the extremities and old tape marks to the overlap. A nice set. 'On the three expeditions which he led to the Pacific between 1768 and his death at Hawaii in 1779, his ships thrice circled the globe; he drew the modern map of the Pacific, and he was the first European seaman to circumnavigate New Zealand, to discover the east coast of Australia, to cross the Antarctic Circle, to chart the north-west coasts of America. [.] The three voyages proclaim his greatness alike as a seaman and navigator, an explorer, a practical scientist, and a leader of men. They were worthily chronicled in his own Journals and charts.' The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, completes the Hakluyt Society edition of the Journals. The presentation in that volume is to Roy Bridges, Head of the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen, from his colleagues. Bridges was President of The Hakluyt Society from 2002 to 2008. The complete Journals of Captain Cook in very nice condition.…