Master Desolation by Fuller Capt Joseph (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Joseph Fuller (1839-1920) was a well known whaling captain who sailed out of New London, Connecticut for half a century after the Civil War. He engaged in a little known branch of the whaling industry that hunted sea elephants for oil, principally in the Desolation Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. Few men knew the hazards of the 23,000 mile round trip voyage. …

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edited, with introduction and notes by Briton Cooper Busch. Mystic:Mystic Seaport Museum. (1980). 349pp.Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges with a small tear at the bottom edge of the front cover. Otherwise in very good condition. Book itself shows only some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good, clean copy. …

1st edition. 8vo. xxxi + 349pp. Several b/w. illustrations. Original boards. Rubbed pictorial blue d/w. with red and white lettering to spine. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley. ISBN 0913372218 US$15.

1st edition. 8vo. xxxi + 349pp. 3 illustrations, map. Original boards. Rubbed pictorial d/w. lettered in red and blue, with 1cm. tear repaired with tape. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley. ISBN 0913372218 US$18.

Mystic, CT : Mystic Seaport Museum, (1980). Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named Ã"DesolationÃ" Islands in the Indian Ocean. Published from a manuscript at the Blunt White library in Mystic, and edited by Briton Cooper Busch. Very good condition in lightly rubbed dust jacket. 23 cm. xxxi, 349 pp. b/w plates. Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named.…

hard cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 349pp. Illus. With dust jacket. A fine coy. Fuller was a well-known whaling captain who sailed out of New London. Active in the speciliazed and little-known branch of the whaling industry that hunted sea elephants for oil, principally at Heard and Kerguelen "Desolation" Islands in the Indian ocean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Mystic, CT : Mystic Seaport Museum, (1980). Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named Desolation Islands in the Indian Ocean. Published from a manuscript at the Blunt White library in Mystic, and edited by Briton Cooper Busch. Fine condition, with two different dust jackets. Presumably the "top" one (pictured here) is issued by the American Maritime Library, of which this book is IX in the series. 23 cm. xxxi, 349 pp. b/w plates. Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named.…