Preface by charles thomas (10 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine condition. Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Viking, 1999. Remainder mark. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). No owner's name or bookplate. A few illustrations. Previously unpublished journal. In 1808 at the age of 13, Charles Tyng began service aboard the brig Cordelia as a 'ship's boy.' By his fourth voyage, Tyng had become a mate, and captain of his own ship by his early twenties. Tyng made and lost fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton while voyaging across the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Caribbean, with visits to Cuba, China, Europe, Indonesia, etc. He recounts his associations with Lord Byron, King Kamehameha of Hawaii, the British princess (later queen) Victoria, and others. From the Dust Jacket: "From mermaids to mutinies, shipwrecks to cholera, the life of Charles Tyng was a nonstop voyage of adventure. His quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xviii, 270pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Viking, 1999. A square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original blue boards, with an off-white spine lettered in shiny gold. List of chapter notes. Index. First printing with the complete number row (13579108642) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "From mermaids to mutinies, shipwrecks to cholera, the life of Charles Tyng was a nonstop voyage of adventure. His quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. This is social history at its best, told in an authentic New England voice dryly recounting the story of a life from reluctant schoolboy to ship's captain and owner. Tyng's anecdotes come thick and fast, serious and humorous.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xviii, 270pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first numberline printing. Light shelf; brief remainder mark on top foreedge.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Crisp clean covers, sound binding, clean pages and inside covers, corners are lightly rubbed. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0906780632. ISBN/EAN: 9780906780633. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40118051194. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Soft cover 1957. 80 pages. Clean & tight. Front end paper has a written name & "1957". ---------LAID IN: Amendment sheet. -------- Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref OFBLUB. Bristol as it Was 1914 - 1900 by Reece Winstone; Preface by Charles Thomas.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. An exceptional hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, limited edition with dustjacket and publishers slipcase: book fine, dustjacket near fine, slipcase very good. Limited to 350 copies (this is an unnumbered copy). Green cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches, 80 pp., b/w photo frontispiece. Pages unmarked and binding tight and square. Dustjacket spine tanned (sunned), with a little spotting on rear panel; not price-clipped. Modest wear to slipcase corners. (K035).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Xviii, 576, (V) Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt Lettering With Black Designs, Brown Endpapers. Very Good +, Covers And Endpapers Clean, Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks, Light Wear, Beter Than Most Copies. A Collection Of Essays, Fiction, And Poetry By Pro-Slavery Writers, Amongst Whom, For The Past Hundred Years, Perhaps Only Lafcadio Hearn, Who Left Quickly For Japan, And Audubon, Have Been Much Admired Outside The South. Portrait Plates (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: New. Special Edition. Full leather bound edition. Raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Gilt page edges and cover design. Ribbon page marker. Marble design endpapers. Book is new and sealed in publishers shrinkwrap. Book.

Full Calf. Condición: Very Good. First Trade Edition. Bound in full red calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 12mo. 18 by 12.5 cm. xxx, [2], 236 pp. 130 Brock illustrations. The Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding is fairly plain, with gilt ruled borders on the boards, but ornate gilt decoration in the spine compartments between the raised bands. All edges gilt. Endpapers unusual, we think -- not a marbled paper, more like a country kitchen wallpaper. The leather is healthy, in the sense it is supple and bright generally, but there is rubbing along the joints and spine extremities, some minor gilt loss, and corners have ever so slightly show wear. Border of FEP has band of heavy browning which tracks perfectly the turn-ins opposite. Trivial soiling of leaves; overall, the book does read as a clean, and tight, copy. Charles E. Brock (ilustrador).…