Briton Cooper Busch Editor (11 results)

Hard cover. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 349 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. book has some stains on the cover and the jacket has edge wear with some chips and small tears, still a tight copy.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Green cloth with trimmed edges. Copy 411/500. Signed by Busch. 79 pages. FINE.

1st edition. 8vo. 364pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece, illustrations and maps. Original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine. ISBN 0870621432 US$17.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Out of print. An original publication of the Mystic Seaport Museum. Binding is cloth.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Busch, Briton Cooper [Editor] : Master of Desolation: The Reminiscences of Capt. Joseph J. Fuller (American Maritime Library, Vol 9). Mystic (CT) : Mystic Seaport Museum Inc, 1980. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettering/ornamentation to spine. Glossy color photographic dj. Plain white endpapers. Xxxii pp prelim material, 349 numbered pp, plus five blank; pagination irregular in that pp [1-2] not accounted for. Contents, list of illus, acknowl, editor's intro, Fuller's intro, Part I (Voyage of the Roswell King, 1873-1875); Part II (The Wreck of the Pilot's Bridge, 1880-1883); Appendices (Fuller's voyages, Whaleman's Shipping Paper/Schooner Pilot's Bride, "Kerguelen Island - Isle of Desolation" by Fuller, Stores used on Kerguelen). Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: moderate wear/rubbing to dj, several tiny closed tears to folds; a half inch closed slit to rear center, spine side. Binding square and tight, corners sharp, spine ends rolled. Heavy foxing to top- and fore-edges, light to tail. Warmly inscribed by author to former owner on half-title page, who is also warmly credited in acknowledgements; former owner was the late Robert D. ("Bud") Foulke - scholar of Joseph Conrad, and travel writer - from whose library this copy comes; Foulke's return address label is affixed to the head of ffep. We personally inspect every book we offer. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st fine in plain jacket. #449/500 signed 1846 Journal of Captain William Dane Phelps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth on boards with bright, as new gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out. Book is Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket shows zero scuffing or shelfwear. The remembrances of a well-known whaling Captain out of New London, CT. Includes a map of the Kerguelen Islands and three illustrations. 349 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. None. Volume has beautiful green cloth covers with gold lettering on the spine and on the front cover. Book itself is protected in a clear archival quality protective cover. Just a trace of wear at the base of the spine, almost too insignificant to mention. 79 pages. This volume is number 416 of an edition of 500 copies and is signed by the editor, Briton C. Busch; not personalized to anyone. The book is clean and tight. A very nice copy. Signed By the Editor. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition. No. 214 of 500 copies printed. Signed by the editor in black ink under the front colophon: "Briton C. Busch." Original publisher's green cloth binding with white dust wrapper in mylar. Gilt lettering on the front cover and spine of the book. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." Seventy-nine pages, complete. Index in the back. Front colophon: "Fremont's Private Navy has been produced in an edition of 500 copies each signed by the editor of which this is number 214." Back colophon: "Typography: Linotype Granjon and handset Deepdene, Presswork: Letterpress, on a V-36 Miehle Vertical, both of the above completed by the Sagebrush Press, Morongo Valley, Calif.; Bindery: SEBCO, Inc., Monterey Park, Calif.; Produced under the Direction of: Robert A. Clark; Paper: 80# Mohawk Superfine; Copies Printed: 500." Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is browned. A speck has discolored a few small portions on the front flap of the dust wrapper and the front free endpaper. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. 1840 marked the first time United States sea captain William Dane Phelps (1802-1875) visited California. He stayed there until 1842 but returned in 1845. This reprinted journal provides insight into Phelps's lesser-known ventures along the California coast in the year 1846. Excerpt from the Introduction: "Following his arrival at San Diego in January 1846, Phelps found the next twelve months to be full of incident until, in December, the journal ends, apparently sent home with the Sterling. Although Phelps throughout remained primarily concerned with his maritime and mercantile responsibilities, he was a participant in two events of historical importance. The first, on 1 July, was the spiking of the Mexican guns at Fort Point (at the southern end of the modern Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco). The journal gives the bare details; Phelps's memoirs, written a quarter-century later, add further color. Neither account mentions the fact that Phelps later billed the United States government for $10,000 to compensate for his assistance to Fremont and his men in this venture. (In the end Phelps was awarded $50 by a claims court for his trouble, after Major Archibald Gillespie testified that at the time there had been no actual physical danger from any local opposition.) A more important crisis, which Phelps witnessed but in which he played little active role, was the reconquest of the Los Angeles area by Commodore Robert F. ('Fighting Bob') Stockton, who had replaced Sloat in mid-July 1846.". Signed by the Editor.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.