James w balano (15 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Softcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. For 20 years, Dorothea Moulton Balano went to sea with her husband, the skipper of a Maine schooner in the early 1900s. This is the candid and witty journal of her travels, and of her irrepressible spirit. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: Good +. (1979), 160pp, illus., couple pgs w/ corners turned, slight soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. VERY GOOD+ softcover, no marks in text, square uncreased spine. Book.

Paperback. Condición: VG++. Reprint. VG++. Trade pb with very light wear, clean, no spine crease, contents clean and unmarked. A well kept copy.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. For 20 years, Dorothea Moulton Balano went to sea with her husband, the skipper of a Maine schooner in the early 1900s. This is the candid and witty journal of her travels, and of her irrepressible spirit.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Later Printing. Crisp, clean and tight with only a trace of shelf wear.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Oversized tan photo-illustrated wraps with brown lettering. Rubbing to lower edge, small tear to heel of spine at edge of gutter. Upper front corner creased. Previous owner gift inscription to dedication page. Text is clean and white, no marks. "Little did Dorothea Moulton know when she agreed to chaperone her school teacher girl friend and her husband-to-be on a sailing trip from Puerto Rico to Boston that she would windup as the "skipper's wife". She did and for the next two decades she spent a large part of her married life aboard her husband's various ships sailing around the world. At times earthy, always interesting this is Dorothea Moulton Balano's eyewittness account of life aboard some of the last of the vaunted Maine windjammers." (from the cover blurb).…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A wife's memoirs of two decades of sea life aboard her husband's ships. Photographs.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Book is in pristine condition. Eyewitness account of life aboard some of the last of the vaunted Maine windjammers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages.

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1979, 1979 Soft Cover Presumed First 9 x 6 ISBN:0-89272-062-X 160 pp Dorothea Moulton came to Boston from Puerto Rico on a sailing trip with friends She ended up as a Skipper's wife and chronicled her adve ntures as she and her husband sailed around the world Softcover has a pull from bottom edge and a tiny pull from front side edge Has slight edge wear to front and back Title page has pen "Halifax, J une 1982" and owner's initials Text is lovely and clean Some paper "wrinkling" on page 23 and 25 that occured during production Overall cond: good - v good.…

Condición: good. 160, wraps, illus. Diary of Dorothea Moulton, documenting her trip from Puerto Rico to Boston in the early 1900's, aboard some of the last of the vaunted Maine windjammers. "Little did Dorothea Moulton know, when she agreed to chaperone her schoolteacher friend and her friend's husband-to-be on a sailing trip from Puerto Rico to Boston, that she would wind up as the 'skipper's wife' herself. She did, and for the next two decades Dorothea spent a large part of her married life aboard her husband's various ships, sailing around the world, visiting mysterious and glamorous places. " This is the candid, witty diary Dorothea Balano kept of her travels aboard a Maine schooner that plied the trade routes from Maine to Puerto Rico. This early account begins before the journey and continues several years after they married. Edited by her son, James Balano, the journal contains some very frank observations on life and marriage at sea.…

Softcover. Condición: Fine. Later. Paperback Fine in wrappers.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in wraps. Light damp stains on spine. Foxing on text block edges.

First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half title page, "Jim Balano / Bucksport, ME / 1980." Very Good plus in perfect-bound illustrated wrappers, with faint overall rubbing, light toning at the spine, and a touch of laminate lift at the heel. Signed.