Arthur Power Dudden Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. As new. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine, gilt Lakeside emblem on top cover. Top edge gilt. Issued without DJ. ; Lakeside Classics; Drawings, photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 283 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued). First Edition Thus. The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA, December, 1995. First (1st) Printing of the First Edition Thus. Number 93 in the Lakeside Classics Series. Previously privately printed by the author in Bangor, Maine, in 1905. As New condition. No Jacket, as issued. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, very tight, straight and square with bright gilt top-edge and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full brown cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright gilt logo of the publisher on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. No Dust Jacket, as issued. See photos. cv [Publisher's Preface and Historical Introduction], 291 pages, i. 4 1/2" x 6 7/8". The Lakeside Classics Series, volume 93, containing numerous illustrations and maps. The author, then a graduate of Bowdoin College, served as Captain's Clerk on the U.S.S. Saratoga from 1850 to 1854, as it visited Japan as part of Commodore Perry's squadron during the historic opening of Japan to the outside world. This book, a memoir in part written 50 years later, contains the author's commentaries as well. Historical Introduction by Arthur Power Dudden.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Navy cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1987. 161 pages. Good condition. DJ is purple with orange lettering. Shows signs of shelf wear with light rubbing and a small tear (bottom edge of spine, less than .5 inch). Boards are clean with little sign of use. Front free end paper inscribed by the editor, Arthur Power Dudden: "For Michael H. Cardozo, Esq. who for a long time has been forced to endure my own labored attempts at American humor, with my warmest, appreciative and most respectful regards, Arthur Power Dudden." Binding is stiff; pages are bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. N/A (illustrator). 1995. R.R.Donnelley & Sons Co, Chicago, 1995. Hard Cover, brown boards, gilt titles. Book condition : As new, appears unread. A very clean copy. Bookseller Inventory #003356. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. N/A.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Archival Photographs (illustrator). First Edition, First Thus. Text/NEW & Bright. 1995 First Edition, First Thus; reprint of a memoir first published 1905. Gilt embossed dark brown linen boards w/gilt to upper text block, Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Frontispiece: The USS Saratoga. Maritime history. Memoir of American sailor, minister & professor John Smith Sewall (1830-1911) aboard warship U.S.Saratoga --- one of the "Black Ships" of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Squadron to Japan (1853-1854). As a captain's clerk aboard the Saratoga from 1850-1854, Sewall (author of The Invincible Armada to Japan) kept log of the ship's daily activities. This book was written a half century later, and includes Sewall's commentaries as well as references to later incidents. 291 pgs w/maps & archival photos in 9 chapters followed by Editor's Epilogue.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 294 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed. Top edge gilt w/ few scratch marks to gilt. Illust. w/ b/w photos and maps. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 294 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Modest rubbing to covers, otherwise binding very bright and clean. Top edge gilt. Illust. w/ b/w photos and maps. Contents very nice.

Condition: As New. No Jacket. First Edition. No Jacket. First Edition. 16mo (4 1/2 x 7 in), 291 pp. [Memoir of a Member of Perry's Expition to Japan - Reprint w Illustrations and Maps Added]. 38 black and white and color illustrations and 12 maps. Contains a Publisher's Preface, List of Illustrations and Historical Introduction (i-cv - 42 pp). The majority of the illustrations are reproductions of lithographics from the original Narrative of the Perry Expedition to Japan. One book in a series of the Lakeside Classics. Black cloth with gold lettering and publisher's seal. This is a memoir written by John S. Sewell who was serving as a Yeoman, Captain's Clerk, on the Saratoga during the period of Perry's Expedition to Japan. This book is a valuable resource for the many illustrations it uses to supplement the original memoir first published in 1905. -- Condition. As New.