Captain George Grant (14 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Beige hard covers. Red print on spine and front cover in readable condition. Tips and spine ends are bumped and with wear. Small tears top and bottom of spine. Covers showing lots of wear with stain, shelf rubs, edge wear, sunned spine and minor smudges. Interior has decorated endpapers with the first leaf front and back having the corner clipped. Part of the dust jacket glued fp, and ffp, otherwise, contents are clean and tight. Ex-library with all the markings and pocket at the rear. 254pp, stated first edition, pictures on request and with our pleasure. Ex-Library.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Peter Spier (illustrator). First Edition. Orange cloth binding. B & w illust. 199 pages. Chapter book. Usual library markings. Pocket on inside of front cover. Library tape on spine and corners of covers. Covers worn around edges.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full ebony-embossed blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 250, indexed. Illustrated with pen & ink sketches by Paul Quinn. The spine is a trifle sunned. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gordon Grant, illustrator (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean first edition in very good original dust jacket. Clean buckram cloth boards with dark blue lettering and small illustration on cover, blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean unmarked endpapers. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 316 pages. Dust jacket is quite clean, price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap, has some edge wear and a few short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A moving narrative of a boy's first two years at sea and one of the few autobiographies of a seaman's life on a steamship.

Hard Cover. Later printing. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET WITH $2.00 PRICE.

hardcover. Condition: Good. shows minor wear, foxing.

Spier, Peter (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good hardcover, inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. Has a small booksellers sticker on the front pastedown. Front board has a scuff near the hinge. There is some wear to the spine ends and corner tips. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. A WONDERFULLY DESCRIPTIVE INSCRIPTION TO PREVIOUS OWNER (Howard Hobson."to whom the author turned over his vessel during a high wind and sea.".AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Front hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Signed by Author.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1934. 286pp. 2nd. printing. Hard cover. With dust jacket. A very good to fine, tight, clean copy. Dust jacket bright and clean with minor fraying at edges. S107.

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Book Good. No dust jacket. Reprint. Inscribed by author: 'Colonel Virgil S. Allen // This yarn is woven around // the ex pioneer of my younger // days I see-I loved the // life then- I love it now- // and hope that you will // find much to like in my // pages on the sea- // George H. Grant // 1943' on front endpage. (voyages, maritime, sea stories).

1st edition. 288 pages. frontispiece photo, plus illustrations by Gordon Grant. very good condition hardback. a little spotting to the spine. browning to front end-paper, with owner's inscription. a scarce account of an apprentice in steam, recounting two early 20th century voyages in the tramp steamer "Monarch". [please see our storefront page for shipping information].

Condition: Poor. Some tears and scuffs to the jacket edges. Fading and creases also. Two signatures to the inside page, the book is fine to read throughout, light foxing to the textblock edge.

2nd printing dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 316pp., fronts., text ills., A narrative of the author's first two years at sea aboard the tramp steamer Monarch. A long & interesting inscription by Captain Grant, dated September 1936, on the free front end paper. Nice copy in a slightly chipped but unclipped dust jacket.