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Published by Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1947
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. First Edition Thus (1947), so stated. First Edition Thus (1947), so stated. Good+ in Wraps: shows a crease near the outside edge of the front panel,:moderate wear to the extremities and some rubbing to the panels; a short tear at the outside edge of the front endpaper; a former owner's name printed at same; the text pages have tanned heavily, due to aging; the binding leans slightly, but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A carefully read copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing moderate wear and several cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.15 x 4.35 x 0.45 inches). 186 pages. Language: English. Weight: 4.2 ounces. Penguin 628. Mass Market Paperback. .
Published by The Modern Library, 1932
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1932. No Edition Stated. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Moderate soiling, staining and marking to boards.
Published by Modern Library
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Published by Modern Library
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Published by Modern Library, 1932
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Pliable Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Not Stated. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Green pliable covers with gold emblem on front and faded, but legible lettering on spine.
Published by Random House - Modern Library, 1932
Seller: Park & Read Books, Herndon, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover, Condition: Good, No marks or stains, No loose pages, wear to board edges and spine ends, Bound in red boards, "Blumenthal" Binding (type 8), black stain to top page edges, "ml "with books designed endpapers, 7.25" x 5", 399 pages, MISSING dust jacket, Not sure if it is a 1st Edition but copyright says 1929 by Richard Hughes, Introduction copyright 1932, includes 4 b&w plates, thru-out book, any other questions, please feel free to message me, thanks.
Published by The Modern Library, 1932
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 1932-01-01. The Modern Library. Hardcover. GOOD No DJ. Previous owners names.
Published by The Modern Library, 1932
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 1932-9 printing. Toledano 112.2, binding style 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, owner bookplate on front endpaper. xxii, [2], 399 pp. Inspiration for the 1965 film starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn. "Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.
Tapa Blanda. Condition: Buen Estado. Dust Jacket Condition: Buen Estado.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. Tattered dust jacket. 400 pages. Previous owner's name inside.
Published by Modern Library, 1946
Seller: A Few Books More. . ., Billings, MT, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 12mo. A bright, attractive dust jacket with minor chips and tearing, and a larger (1 1/2") tear along the bottom left spine. Jacket is in tact with no price clipping. Light grey-green boards in Toledano Style 8 (the classic Blumenthal design). Copy is bright and clean, free of notes or marking.
Published by Modern Library, 1932
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Light grey linen cloth boards in Toledano Style 8 (the classic Blumenthal design) with green label on spine and top stain. Last date on CP is 1932, but this binding style design was not used until 1939. Includes introduction by Isabel Paterson, frontispiece illustration, and three other illustrations. xxii, 399pp. No dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; text and illustrations also very good. Minor shelfwear/soil to boards. NOT ex-library. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Published by Modern Library, N Y, 1932, 1932
Seller: BooksByLisa, Highland Park, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.
Published by The Modern Library 1932, 1932
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
reprint ed. hardback very good condition in a like dust jacket with a bit of wear.
Published by New York: The Modern Library (112), 1932
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Priority uncertain. Near fine, if not near fine plus hardback in near fine red, black and ecru dust jacket ($1.25). Age-toning to leaves and 1.25 inch by 3/16 inch name of previous owner in upper fore-edge corner of front free endpaper. Dust jacket has a 3/8 inch by 1/4 inch chip to upper fore-edge corner; a 3/8 inch by 1/4 inch chip to top edge of front panel near spine; a 1/4 inch chip to head of spine; a 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch chips and associated 3/4 inch closed tears to top and bottom of rear fore-edge fold; and minor, if not trivial additional wear to corners, edges and extremities. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.
Published by The Modern Library / Random House [c.1955], New York, 1955
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. A Modern Library reprint edition of the adventure novel by Richard Hughes. This is the story of a group of children who are sent from their home in Jamaica to live in England. Along the way, their ship is seized by pirates and the children experience harrowing events as they are forced to live on the pirate ship. With an introduction by Isabel Paterson, and four black & white illustrations by Amy Drevenstedt. Originally published under the title "The Innocent Voyage." This work was named to the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 372 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955 (though 1932 date appears in book). ML #112.2. --- With some discoloration to lower corner of cloth, inkings to front free endpaper and title page, otherwise a sound, bright copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chips and a few tears to edges, partial gold star sticker affixed to front panel, else intact, bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxii, (2), 399 pages.
Published by Modern Library, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1932
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Modern LIbrary. The book is sound and clean. The DJ has edge wear and small chips. One of the world's famous books.
Published by The Modern Library, NY, 1932
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, 1932, Later Printing, NF+/VG+, AS-IS, Back DJ says over 300 Titles to choose from . Hardcover. Book Condition: Book: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ: Good. 12mo. 399 pg. 5 x 7 1/4. Light gray cloth covered boards, stamped in gold in green box on front and spine Dj ion Maroon & Black. Maroon & BLACK DJ with White Lettering., slightly fox with small edgetears DJ. Cloth Lightly yellowed at spine cvr. Custom endpapers. No other markings or damage noted. Back Inner Flap Lists 5 titles Cakes & Ale, Point Counter point, African Queen, Storm & Lord Jim, DJ Light rub, wear & tiny chips Tears Extremities, DJ Protected Clear Mylar,Faded green TOPSTAIN outer pgs top edge.
Published by Modern Library, 1932
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early printing; flexible brown cloth covered boards, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, 399 pages, 4 black and white illustrations, 246 titles on rear of dust jacket, Rockwell Kent endpapers, Toledano binding 7, pictorial dust jacket; old booksellers stamp in front endpaper; toned dust jacket with lightly sunned spine, tear with small chip at top rear edge and a bit of chipping at spine ends. A very attractive early edition of Hughes tale of Victorian children and pirates. Scarce dust jacket.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1929
Seller: Second-handsome Books, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, flaps and folds. BOARDS: Very minor soiling/spots to front and back, primarily front BOOK: Nice topstain. Small stain to textblock head. Minor foxing to foredge. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Minor foxing to outside margins, half-title page thru page 1. Hinge peeking, reverse of copyright page. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. ********************************************************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of Richard Hughes' most famous novel - a collectable gem - A High Wind in Jamaica. It is the tale of a group of English schoolchildren captured by pirates on the high seas and the dark drama that soon unfolds. This copy is a 1st UK trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Chatto & Windus in 1929. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ***************************************************** "Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood." ******************************************************* Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19 April 1900 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. **** He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica. He was educated first at Charterhouse School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1922. . . . **** He was the author of the world's first radio play, A Comedy Of Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair and broadcast on 15 January 1924. . . . **** He wrote only four novels, the most famous of which is The Innocent Voyage (1929), or A High Wind in Jamaica, as Hughes renamed it soon after its initial publication. Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates (it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood). . . . **** In 1998, A High Wind in Jamaica was included as number 71 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. . . . ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, Penguin publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 1965.].
Published by The Modern Library, NY, 1932
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1932, STATED 1ST Modern Library Edition on copyright pg. Brown Cloth Light Rub.VG-/VG, with 246 Titles listed Inside & ON BACK OF EARLY VINTAGE Dustjacket & PREZIPCODE COUPON ON BTM LEFT OF DJ , FOXed Dustjacket has tiny chips tears slight wear Extremities, Small Octavo, . First Edition. Brown cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine cvr & man running with streamer on front Cvr, Corners bumped slightly, Light sunning to spine., 399 pages NO ADS in Back, Binding #7 Balloon cloth. 16mo , Small 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 IN. Light wear to spine but Gold Gilt Bright, 2 Tiny Spots on back Cvr, topstain to outer Top edge light wear, closed tear on upper spine, corner of front panel. in fresh mylar sleeve. Scarce edition with jacket.
Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1932
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. RARE 1932 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1932 stated. The book is bound in green balloon cloth type 7 binding. Book is FINE and PRISTINE - binding solid and tight, gilt bright and perfect, matching green topstain perfect, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. GORGEOUS! The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with very minor chipping at spine. It is bright and clean with an amazing graphic on the cover. The only flaw is that someone has cut out the price on the inside flap. This is a beautiful example of a book that has been protected over the years. 200 titles listed on the back panel indicating a 1932 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND THIS FIRST EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET IN THIS CONDITION! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.
Published by Harper, New York, 1929
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Full red goatskin, top edge gilt, decorated turn-ins, marbled endpapers; a presentation binding. Inscribed by Hughes "To Isabel Paterson / With the warmest gratitude and the deepest respect from Richard Hughes / June 19, 1929". Slight rubbing to edges, Hughes's biographer quotes Hughes as saying that the book got off to a very slow start, and that "It was taken up by just one or two critics, notably Isabel Peters [sic] and Burton Roscoe [sic] who plugged it for all they were worth, week after week. I was in New York myself at the time, and Harpers kept me in constant circulation, at lunches, cocktail parties and so on," - Richard Percival Graves, Richard Hughes: A Biography (London, 1994), p. 177. Paterson liked the book so much that she would go on to write the 17-page introduction to the Modern Library edition in 1932. From 1924 until 1949 Paterson was one of the most influential literary critics, whose daily book reviews for the New York Herald Tribune could make or break a book. As well she wrote longer pieces for the Sunday Books section, but she was best known for her weekly column "Turns with a Bookworm," written under the initials "I.M.P.", which mixed literary anecdotes and reviews with her evolving conservative political views. A confirmed libertarian, she wrote nine novels, the most famous of which was The God of the Machine, published the same year (1943) as her friend Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Paterson and Rand were very close, with Paterson in the role of libertarian teacher. "If Rand ever had a mentor, it was Paterson," says her biographer, Stephen Cox. As "A High Wind in Jamaica," this story of a ship full of English children captured by pirates was filmed in 1965, directed by Alexander Mackendrick and starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn. Martin Amis, then 16 years-old, had a part. First edition, published in the US in February 1929 and in Britain as A High Wind in Jamaica, in late September.