John Bays (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. NEW! This is an unused book from the warehouse of a former new-book distributor. Thousands of Western and Americana books in stock--check our listings! Some rubbing from poor storage.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. Paperback in Very Good+ condition. 7.5 X 1 X 10.25 inches. 238 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover -- Very Good -- Ex-Library -- Showing only lightest wear -- 229 pages plus index. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. New copy (purchased from the publisher's warehouse when they closed down.) Original title: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning amond the South Sea Islanders; Giving an Account of Their Feasts, Massacres, &c. &c., With the Certificates of Wesleyan Missionaries Who Lived in the Islands; Second Edition, Enlarged. New introduction by Keith Huntress, new & extensive index.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. Illustration on end papers. 229 pages + index.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo paper back, printed card covers, single section staple binding, illustrated, 52 pages. Includes some performance and other hints by Ron Bishop and tricks and effects by other authors. (VM2).

Paperback. Condition: New. New with no dust jacket; BRAND NEW. Multiple copies available; Softcover; Ye Galleon Press; 1996; 0.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 90 pages. Derek Walcott - 4 poems / V S Pritchett "The Wheelbarrow" / Samuel Selvon "Song of Sixpence" / Rayner Heppenstall "The Bays are Sere" / Dominique Aury "Colette" / Tom Hopkinson "Mood of the Month - XV".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Illustrated. John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 - 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with many other Victorian-era devices. Working with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, many of his illusions are still performed today. [Davenport's and Maskelynes at L. Davenport & Co.,] Ira Erastus Davenport (September 17, 1839 - July 8, 1911) and William Henry Davenport (February 1, 1841 - July 1, 1877), known as the Davenport Brothers, were American magicians in the late 19th century, sons of a Buffalo, New York policeman. The brothers presented illusions that they and others claimed to be supernatural. (VM10).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 - 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with many other Victorian-era devices. Working with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, many of his illusions are still performed today. [Davenport's and Maskelynes at L. Davenport & Co.,] Ira Erastus Davenport (September 17, 1839 - July 8, 1911) and William Henry Davenport (February 1, 1841 - July 1, 1877), known as the Davenport Brothers, were American magicians in the late 19th century, sons of a Buffalo, New York policeman. The brothers presented illusions that they and others claimed to be supernatural. (VM6).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dennis (illustrator). Very good condition, octavo paper back, printed card covers, single section staple binding, illustrated, 52 pages. Includes some performance and other hints by Ron Bishop and tricks and effects byother authors. [QP].

Near Fine condition.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 238pp, index, footnotes, few bw ills. Or card covers. A couple of tiny spots on covers, rear cover creased at one corner. Two narratives of the wreck of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage in 1829. Much detail on the customs and life in Fiji. The original editions are both extremely rare. Size: 8vo.

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Facsimile reprints of two separate books: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning among South Sea Islands, 2nd edition of the 1850 original, and Wreck of the Minerva, 1850. 108 PP, (4), 109-229, (8 Index), 1 colophon with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: Facsimile of title-page Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 26 x 18.5. The wreck in September 1829 on Nicholson's Reef. Two narratives by one of the boatsteerers and the sailing master of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage. Twyning lived for 20 years in the Islands and returned to England after the death of his wife from Horn Island (Futuna). Only two copies of the original are known to be held in Australia.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 72 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.17 inches. This item is printed on demand.