Arthur Power Dudden Editor (7 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. 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: As New. No Jacket. 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 (illustrator). N/A.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 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. Archival Photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 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. 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.…