Ponder Captain (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copy in orange cloth on boards with black title on spine. Spine lightly rubbed at head/foot. Spin e ligghtly sunned with some carry over to lower board edges. Slight tanning to front and rear end papers. Occasional light foxing to folio edges. Previous owners inscription on half title page. A few light internal cracks. Clean text with b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Copy in orange cloth on boards with black title on spine. Light rubbing to head/foot of spine. Some light internal cracks. Occasional foxing through text and along folio fore-edges, otherwise clean text and b/w plates and illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair to Good. No dust jacket. Original orange cloth boards with bright black titling on spine, rubbed edges. Faint name on ffep. Frontis portrait plate. 287pp, 8pp adverts, 16 plates. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. A plate listed as facing page 112 is absent, however no evidence of removal. Boards are slightly scuffed and sunned, with some surface colour loss noted. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned, blemished and foxed, with a remainder mark on the page block foot. Endpapers are discoloured, with light foxing on first and last pages, and several pages within. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's original red cloth, gilt titles to spine. A scarce Asia travelogue, recording the author's tour of Asia, from Saigon to Angkor, Bangkok, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, Japan and China. It includes his account of Bali, of which he writes, "it is one of the few places left which is untouched by the blemish of civilization. The people . are truly children of nature, charming, amazingly simple and vice-free. Here there are no missionaries; no religious bickerings and practically no crime." His pen portrait echoes other titles of the era extolling Bali as an island paradise, including the photography of Gregor Krause, and the American titles, Hickman Powell's 'Bali: The Last Paradise' of 1930 and Miguel Covarrubias, 'Island of Bali' which contributed to a Bali craze. With b&w illustrations and maps. An old bookseller's noter to flyleaf notes, 'Two plates missing', but one is not missing and has rather been incorrectly bound in adjacent to another earlier plate. The missing plate is 'A Japanese nursemaid'. b&w frontis. pp. 255 including index. Wear and marks to boards, tips bumped, page edges discoloured, a remainder mark (?) to bottom page edges. The upper corner of the flyleaf has been torn out. Binding firm, minor foxing, pages else clean, still a decent copy.