Long Dwight (42 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 6th edition. Inscribed by the author on the page following the half-title page. Binding shaken, visible crack at page 38 yet no loose pages. Boards soiled, spine ends and corners rubbed, previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. 3rd edition. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo hc w/jacket in mylar, inscribed by Long, 310pp, clean throughout, clean boards, owner's name typed on paper taped to pastedown, binding is slightly shaken, page block remains secure, Good. Worn jacket with small open tears to the spine ends and edges, Good.

Condition: Good. 1951. Second Impression. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with blue lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Paper remnants to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine and board edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 2nd printing. Slight fading to brown cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 7.5 X 5.7 X 1.4 inches. 320 pages. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Condition: Good. 1951. Second Impression. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 4th Printing. Hardback in Very Good+ condition, Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 320 pages. With a preface by Alan Villiers. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Condition: Good. 1939. Reprint. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are notably warped.

(1974). Reprint. Mariners Library publication. Very mild bump to the lower spine edge, else near fine in pebbled blue boards with deep-blue titles and decorations to the spine; in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Small 8vo. 320 pages; 11 b&w plates; 2 diagrams; 1 double page map; and appendix. Long, a true sea-wanderer, tells the yarn of his well-sailed, stout little 32 foot craft, "Idle Hour," as it weathered hurricanes, avoided reefs and went traveling around the world to exotic far-off islands. Foreword by Alan Villiers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. HARDBACK BOOK AND DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1988,REFERRING TO U.S.S. YORKTOWN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 320pp, b&w plates, The Mariners Library, first pub in 1938. Crusing around the world 320 p.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Sailing All The Seas In The Idle Hour (1940) by Dwight Long Hodder and Stoughton ? ISBN: none Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books There are travel books, there are sea books, and then there are books with titles so magnificently optimistic that they seem to have been written expressly for the armchair dreamer with one eye on the horizon and the other on the teapot. Sailing All The Seas In The Idle Hour belongs gloriously to that tradition. Published in 1940 , it offers exactly the sort of promise that makes old books irresistible: that through the simple application of pages, imagination, and a little narrative confidence, one may voyage widely without leaving the room or troubling the furniture. The title alone is a small masterpiece. ?All the seas? is already admirably ambitious, but to do so ?in the idle hour? suggests a level of cheerful efficiency modern life has almost completely abandoned. One pictures a world in which people casually circumnavigate the globe between appointments, perhaps before luncheon, and return with a broader understanding of humanity and a tolerable tan. Dwight Long clearly understood the deep appeal of maritime wandering to those who may not, in practice, wish to encounter actual storms, actual bilge, or the practical inconveniences of saltwater living. Books of this kind are wonderful because they inhabit the borderland between travel, memoir, adventure and cultivated escapism. The sea, in such works, is never merely water. It is freedom, distance, weather, danger, reflection, and the permanent possibility of seeing the known world from a more interesting angle. Whether Long is describing ports, passages, people, coasts, or the peculiar psychology of life afloat, the pleasure lies in being carried along by that old, sturdy idea that movement across the world might also amount to movement of the spirit. Or at the very least, a marked improvement on staying put. Published in 1940 , this volume also carries with it the atmosphere of a world in suspension. A sea-book from that year cannot help but feel charged with historical context, even if its gaze is cast outward toward travel rather than conflict. It comes from a moment when the world was becoming less open, less leisurely, and far more serious. That gives the book an added poignancy. Its voyages belong partly to an older culture of travel and observation, one in which the globe could still be imagined as a place to be sailed across for the sake of curiosity, experience, and narrative pleasure. This Hodder and Stoughton edition has a wonderfully restrained physical presence too. From the image, it looks plain, solid, almost modest to a fault, as though it has no need to advertise the breadth of its contents. The best old travel books often look like this: practical, unfussy, and quietly prepared to transport you much further than their covers imply. It has that admirable old-book quality of understatement, the sort that says, ?Yes, I contain oceans, but there is no need to shout.? The copy is in Good condition , with one especially memorable note: it looks like someone has thrown a dart at it at some point , piercing a few pages, though nothing serious . This is, frankly, marvellous. Not ideal for the original owner, perhaps, but splendid for character. It suggests a life more eventful than most books enjoy. One likes to imagine a particularly heated evening, a game gone astray, or perhaps a dramatic rejection of sedentary maritime literature by someone who felt all voyages should be actual. Whatever the truth, the result is a copy with a story of its own, and old books are always improved by a little accidental folklore. In fact, a sea-book that has survived minor projectile damage feels strangely appropriate. Books about travel ought not to emerge entirely unscathed. A few pierced pages only add to the sense that this volume has weathered something, however domestic the storm may have been. It remains perfectly readable, and the damage is part of its charm: a small reminder that objects, like people, sometimes acquire individuality through mishap. For the modern reader, Sailing All The Seas In The Idle Hour offers several pleasures at once. It is a voyage into a different world of travel writing, a relic of a more leisurely age of adventure, and an attractive old hardback with real shelf presence. It will appeal to lovers of maritime books, armchair travellers, collectors of vintage Hodder titles, and anyone who enjoys the idea of wandering the globe from the safety of a chair while making none of the usual sacrifices demanded by actual seamanship. In short, this is a delightful and evocative survivor: a 1940 voyage-book with a splendid title, a calm old binding, and just enough eccentric wear to make it unmistakably itself. In Good condition , despite its apparent brush with airborne darts, Sailing All The Seas In The Idle Hour remains exactly the sort of Crappy Old Books item one hopes to find ? curious, atmospheric, faintly romantic, and carrying the promise of oceans without any immediate risk of seasickness.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 'Sailng All Seas in the 'Idle Hour' ' by Dwight Long. Rupert Hart-Davis 1951 second edition. Inscription. Slight foxing. VG in slightly edge rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. No. 11 in The Mariners Library. Beige cloth stamped in blue on spine and front board, b&w illstns. Tight and almost square, damp stain and tanning to spine, faint foxing in endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Publishers oatmea cloth, map endpapers, photo illustrated; spine sunned, VERY GOOD free of any former owner marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 7th printing. With owner's nostalgic bookplate, otherwise like new under a barely worn jacket with $3.00 price. A record of sailing around the world in a 32-foot ketch. Illustrated with photos. A RARE title in jacket, especially in this collectible condition.

Hardcover. Third Impression. Near Fine in Very Good Pictorial Dust Jacket. Inscribed by author on free front endpaper: "To Dr. Rappaport Town Hall Series Fair Winds - Dwight Long 1963". The author describes his 30,000 mile cruise from Seattle to London via the South Seas. Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Papua, etc., in the 32 foot auxiliary ketch, 'Idle Hour'. Illustrated with b/w photographs. No. 11 in the Mariner's Library. With a Preface by Alan Villiers. Light blue cloth with navy blue decoration on front, navy blue titling on spine. Covers show very mild wear, with very light bumps to corners. Dust Jacket shows light wear and rubbing, with mild wear/rubbing at corners and top & tail of spine, light soiling on rear. Interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, unmarked. 320 pp. Approx. 5" x 7.5". A very nice copy. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Some torn edges on dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Sticker from different publisher over original and under original inside. Some coloring to page edges. We ship daily from Oregon!

2nd impression. 352 pages. illustrated with photos. good clean condition hardback. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information] a classic cruising yarn, being an account of a 30,000 miles voyage from America to England via the Pacific in the 32-foot ketch 'Idle Hour'.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated with B & W photos. Page edges are foxed. Book is well bound. Name of owner neatly written dated 1944.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. signed and personally inscribed by the author. lacking dj. cover shows moderate wear, tear, soiling, tanning. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. This is a UK hardcover published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1940. The book is Very Good overall, with reading slant, grubby boards and firm spine ends / corners. The page edges are toned. The interior text is clean and illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. The copyright page confirms the publication in 1940, preceded by four earlier editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The jacket is marked and chipped. Some damp marking - boards and text. One ownership signature. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 4th Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Internally clean, unmarked copy with decorative end papers, sharp corners. firm hinges still. DJ has wear along edges, light wear to corners and spine. Handsome copy. BP/Sailing. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition in the Mariners Library (original of 1938). Preface by Alan Villiers. 320 PP with 1 map on double page and 2 plans, plus 11 b/w plates. Hard cover, top edge tinted, dj (price clipped and in a protective sleeve). A very good copy of a scarce title. 19 x 12.5. On board the Idle Hour, from Seattle to London after crossing the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. Signed by author.

New edition. H&S Black Jacket edition, 1940. B&W illustrations; map end papers. Page fore-edge lightly foxed; free end papers a little browned. Dust jacket worn & creased, with long tear in front panel Used - Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 3rd edition. 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. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.