Preface Charles Thomas (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Viking, 1999. Remainder mark. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). No owner's name or bookplate. A few illustrations. Previously unpublished journal. In 1808 at the age of 13, Charles Tyng began service aboard the brig Cordelia as a 'ship's boy.' By his fourth voyage, Tyng had become a mate, and captain of his own ship by his early twenties. Tyng made and lost fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton while voyaging across the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Caribbean, with visits to Cuba, China, Europe, Indonesia, etc. He recounts his associations with Lord Byron, King Kamehameha of Hawaii, the British princess (later queen) Victoria, and others. From the Dust Jacket: "From mermaids to mutinies, shipwrecks to cholera, the life of Charles Tyng was a nonstop voyage of adventure. His quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xviii, 270pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Viking, 1999. A square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original blue boards, with an off-white spine lettered in shiny gold. List of chapter notes. Index. First printing with the complete number row (13579108642) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "From mermaids to mutinies, shipwrecks to cholera, the life of Charles Tyng was a nonstop voyage of adventure. His quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. This is social history at its best, told in an authentic New England voice dryly recounting the story of a life from reluctant schoolboy to ship's captain and owner. Tyng's anecdotes come thick and fast, serious and humorous.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xviii, 270pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first numberline printing. Light shelf; brief remainder mark on top foreedge.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Crisp clean covers, sound binding, clean pages and inside covers, corners are lightly rubbed. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0906780632. ISBN/EAN: 9780906780633. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40118051194. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD CONDITION endpapers.FINGER INDENT TABS TO FOREDGE TEXT BLOCK.faded gold cover titles on black cloth covers.name "CASTLEMAN" to top edge text block. ; .endpapers have PRONUNCIEATION KEY & SPECIMEN ENTRIES.ABBREVIATIONS WEIGHTS & MEASURES.***FINGER INDENT TAPS*** ; 2,500 pictorial ilust; 1606 pgHEAVY pages.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Brock, Charles E. (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. 5" x 7 1/2." Pages [i]-xxxi. [1]-236, complete. 130 black-and-white illustrations, complete. Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Edith E. King-Fisher." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Corners slightly bumped; lower-left corner of back cover has a minuscule portion of cloth that is chipped. Faint marks on a few pages. A Fine copy. A collection of humorous poems by acclaimed English poet and humorist Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Alfred Ainger (1837-1904) was an English biographer and literary critic. Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) of Cambridge was an English painter and book illustrator. He signed most of his work as "C. E. Brock." Not to be confused with Charles Edmund Brock (1881?-1964) of London, an English portrait painter who painted members of English Royalty and the aristocracy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Brock, Charles E. (illustrator). Hard cover in very good condition, no jacket intended. Decorated green cloth boards, with gilt title details to front board, book details to spine. Pageblock is fully gilded. General shelf and handling wear, including light discolouration and wear to boards, tanning and light foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Pages are firmly bound, and other very occasional spots of foxing within, content is unmarked. Beautifully illustrated throughout with one hundred and thirty b/w drawings by Charles Brock. CN.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover 1957. 80 pages. Clean & tight. Front end paper has a written name & "1957". ---------LAID IN: Amendment sheet. -------- Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref OFBLUB. Bristol as it Was 1914 - 1900 by Reece Winstone; Preface by Charles Thomas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1893. Half leather binding with olive satin-like cloth, hubbed spine, gilt type, decoration and top edge, brown marbled end papers. Ex libris sticker on front endpaper, and dated 1931, signed by Murray M. Sprung on fly leaf, see photos. Tissue frontispiece intact, engravings and interior pages excellent condition, light toning. See photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vii, 243 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition. Wear. Very Large Woodcut Or Linoleum Print Bookplate Of Karl Sicherman, One Of The Authors.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 67pp on thick paper, numerous illustrations in text, etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy. Scarce ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

xiv + 268pp., Edition limitée et numérotée (cet exemplaire porte le no. 1837/3300), 19cm., reliure cart., petit cachet, bel état, R52220.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 668 pages. 6.00x1.44x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Portrait Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Xviii, 576, (V) Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt Lettering With Black Designs, Brown Endpapers. Very Good +, Covers And Endpapers Clean, Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks, Light Wear, Beter Than Most Copies. A Collection Of Essays, Fiction, And Poetry By Pro-Slavery Writers, Amongst Whom, For The Past Hundred Years, Perhaps Only Lafcadio Hearn, Who Left Quickly For Japan, And Audubon, Have Been Much Admired Outside The South.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Special Edition. Full leather bound edition. Raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Gilt page edges and cover design. Ribbon page marker. Marble design endpapers. Book is new and sealed in publishers shrinkwrap. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Charles E. Brock (illustrator). First Edition. Hard cover, 8 vo. (5" x 7 1/2") in unusually pretty duck egg blue full calf, 236 pp. First illustrated trade edition in a alternative binding (not signed.) Four gilt rose sprigs decorate the corners of the front and rear boards. The spine has intertwining gilt rose branches climbing through the author and title. All edges are gilt, including board edges and spine edges, as well as the elaborately tooled turn-ins. Endpapers are in a cream and purple "spatter" pattern, with a modern bookplate. Preface by Alfred Ainger, and One Hundred and Thirty Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. CONDITION: Near Fine. Very slight wear to boards and a couple of corners. Spine is lightly sunned. Overall, however, the book makes an excellent, and elegant, impression. The interior is fresh and bright with only a couple of small spots of foxing on the end papers. Hinges are in order, and the gilt remains bright. **Author English poet and humorist Thomas Hood (1799-1845), born above a bookshop in London, would later begin his poetry career in Dundee whilst recovering from an illness. Despite his humble beginnings, Hood's early verse gained the attention of Coleridge and Charles Lamb, the tale of which is told in Ainger's Preface to this volume.*This was book illustrator Charles E. Brock's debut in lavishly illustrated "gift books", published during this period. The expressiveness of his pen and ink illustrations have been favorably compared to the work of fellow book artist Hugh Thomson. Brock and Hood would work together at the Magazine Punch during this time. Book.