Slocum Joshua Arthur Ransome (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Fogarty & George Varian (illustrator). Xvi + 294 Pages, Illustrated. No Date Stated. A Complete And Soundly Bound Book. Spine Sunned. Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Slightly loosely bound blue cloth boards with some marks and general handling wear, no jacket, no writing inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. illustrated (illustrator). Firmly bound with gift inscription inside. Jacket is in very poor condition with creases and tears, also a couple of inches of paper loss from the base of the spine.

Hardback. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. blue binging, some tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: Good. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, UK 1963. 384 pages. Moderate general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears, missing chips. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Nautical::Journeys 6368.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition bringing these titles together in one volume. Sailing Alone Around the World was originally published by Sampson Low, Marston & Company in 1900 and Voyage of the Liberdade was originally published in 1894. This edition has a new eleven page introduction by Arthur Ransome. The spine is a little darkened, slight edge and surface wear to the boards and there is a spine lean. The edges of the pages are a little browned with light spotting. Light brown spotting to the endpapers with a few spots to the adjacent pages. Small notes in pencil to the half-title page - the book was originally owned by Sir. John Cockcroft the Nobel Prize winner and first Master of Churchill College. The pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing of this edition.

Condition: Poor. No dustjacket. Fading/scuffs/staining to cover & bumps to edges. Significant crack to front hinge. Gift inscription at front. Foxing to textblock edges/endpapers & heavy foxing on some pages. Light tanning/creases to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. No signatures. Foxing to top page edges. Adhesive tape stains on reverse side of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1955 "Mariners Library" reprint edition. The first "Mariners Library" edition was printed in 1948. "Sailing Alone Around the World" was originally first publisehd in 1900. "Voyage of the Liberdade" was originally first published in 1894. xvi, 17-384 pages + 2 plate leaves. In-text illustrations. Maps on endpapers. Cream cloth boards with blue lettering on spine, blue compass illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 120mm. With an 11 page Introduction by Arthur Ransome. Series: The Mariners Library, #1.