Delgado James Editor (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good condition. Ex lib. with card, sticker and 8 stamps. Inside all is in pristine condition with no folds, marks or writing of any kind. Tipped-in color frontispiece, facsimiles, folding plate from photograph. Edition of 550 copies printed at the Arion Press. 122 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. British Museum Press, London, 1997. Hard cover. Book Condition : Near fine. Appears little read. Superb illustrations and photographs. Heavy book, please contact the bookseller for postal rates. Jacket has mild shelf wear. Book will be sent by UK postal servive. Inventory #022951.

Condition: Very Good. 493pp. (blue spine) 4to. large. 1997. First edition. A Near fine copy in lovely fresh, tight, clean condition in very good jacket. No inscriptions. Original publisher's blue boards - gilt embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour and b.&w. Slight bumps to the lower rear board corner, the upper front board corner and the edge of the front joint. The jacket has not been price-clipped and has a little shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1896. 122 pp. 27 x 18 cm. Blue cloth covered boards with light blue title labels with black lettering on front cover and spine, in a plain glassine dustjacket. Some toning to spine of jacket, with some bumping and wear to spine ends and a small 3 x 5 mm chip missing from center of spine of jacket. Slight rubbing to corners of boards. Publisher's prospectus laid-in at front. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding firm. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Essential reference for this subject, numerous scholars contribute, including John Coates. A clean, tight and sound hardback copy in a similar dust wrapper. 493 pages, profusely illustrated, notes etc. From the maritime collection of the late Dr John Coates, former Chief Naval Architect at the Ministry of Defence and world authority on wooden ship construction - particularly the Greek trireme. With correspondence between Coates, Richard Steffy and Carol Ruppe discussing why Coates and Steffy could not contribute similar material to a book planned by Ruppe, as it would contravene their copyright agreements with the BM for this work. ( 7 loosely inserted sheets ) Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Maritime; ISBN: 0714121290. ISBN/EAN: 9780714121291. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0022817.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition: one of 550 copies printed. Publication number 183. With eight plates (two fold-out) including two maps and a facsimile journal page. Fine in vivid, blue cloth with printed labels to front cover and spine; original clear dust jacket that has yellowed somewhat with age. Tipped-in frontis-illustration of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill showing the Apollo at the wharves. Large octavo. Comprehensive journal of the 8-month voyage, kept by the owner's son, and published here for the first time; accompanied by descriptions of Beach's career before and after the trip. The first definitive biography of a member of the "Gold Rush Fleet.

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

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 219 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: As New. First Edition. 122 pages. First Edition. One of 550 limited copies. Prosptectus laid in. Blue cloth. Printed spine and cover title labels. Quarto. Color frontispiece tipped in. Illustrated with eight plates (including two folding). Designed and printed at the Arion Press, San Francisco. Letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper. Foreword by John Haskell Kembell. The packet ship Apollo, built in 1831, was purchased in 1848 by Moses Yale Beach, the father of the keeper of this journal, Joseph Perkins Beach. She sailed around the horn in 1849, loaded with mining implements other goods to be sold at Gold Rush prices in San Francisco. Abandoned by her crew on landing, Apollo was beached, shorn of her masts, and used as a storehouse, offices and a coffeehouse, before being destroyed by fire in 1851. This is the first definitive biography of a member of the "Gold Rush Fleet". (BCC #183; Kurutz 44). As New copy in the original glassine wrapper. Original Glassine Wrapper (with Brodart protective sleeve).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. new edition edition. 250 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 696 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.