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Published by Melrose
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.
Published by Andrew Melrose, 1954
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. DJ with some edge wear, tears, areas of loss and creasing.
Published by Coward McCann, New York, 1954
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Light wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket worn, shows edgewear, chipping. The story of the Australasian pearl trade. Illus with dozens of photos, drawings, mapped endpapers.
Published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1954(Rt), 1954
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970) (PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
312pp. c.21cm. Frontispiece. 56 black and white photographic illustrations. End paper maps. Bibliography. Hard cover in edge worn dust jacket. A very good bright clean copy. Pearling around the Northern Coasts of Australia, the factual story . the pioneers, the explorers, the unscrupulous . . [578g].
Published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1954
Seller: Rocks of Ages, Inc., Noblesville, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp 312 with 56 b&w illus; endpaper maps. Interesting historical narrative of pearling life in the waters of northern Australia.
Published by Coward-McCann, Inc, 1954
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Book has a very slightly shaken spine, mild rubbing and smudging to covers, scuffs to edges and corners, foxing to top textblock with lighter spots to outer and bottom textblocks, light aging to endpapers. in good condition due to missing dust jacket, otherwise binding is intact with no missing pages, text and photos remain unmarked.
Published by Coward-McCann, New York, 1954
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st American Edition. Gold-stamped black cloth, foxing on fore-edge & verso frontispiece. Map endpapers, b/w photos. Handsome aged dust jacket w/ light edgewear. Solid. Printed in Great Britain. 13,000 PB shelf 312 p. Book.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60077843: Non daté. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 320 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Published by MELROSE
Seller: Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, United Kingdom
1954 RPT D/W MINOR LOSS / REPAIRED O/W VG/G++.
Published by Andrew Melrose Ltd., London, 1954
Seller: Carrick-White Ltd., West Looe Cornwall, United Kingdom
Book
Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. True adventure: pearl-diving, hard-hat diving, sharks, mutiny, pirates, Japs -- but mainly pearls. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Map on eps. Gift inscr. on half-title. 309 pages, incl. 57 b&w photo illus. Some foxing spots to page fore-edges, but not impinging on the pages. Book tight and clean.
Published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1954
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
First Edition. 56 illustrations. 312 pp. Maps on the endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titles. Corners lightly bumped. Black DJ with green illustration. Small chips, wear along the edges. VG+/VG.
Published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1954
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 312 pages + frontis + plates + maps on endpapers. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's signature. Moderate browning to page edges. Cloth covers rubbed and dust stained. Heavy creasing and some tears and chips to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover. "[.] sets out the whole bloodstained drama of the Pearling trade. It is packed with action and incident, it is full of cut-throats, ne'er-do-wells, rogues and murderers. Through its pages storm and swagger black men, brown men, yellow men and white men pitting their cunning one against the other, pitting their strength against the sea and its perils. " - from blurb on dust wrapper.; 8vo.
Published by Andrew Melrose Limited, London, 1954
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Reprint. Black cloth on boards with gilt titles. Faint dusting of a little smudges to top and bottom margins and head of spine. Edges: light foxing and faint touches of soiling; faded small name stamp to top-edge. Eps: small name stamp to top and bottom margins; map of Australia and the Pearl Waters. Frontis: b/w photo of Diver gathering pearls, Torres Strait. Clean contents. 56 b/w (more greenish sepia tinge) illustrations. Binding is VG albeit only very slightly cocked. 312p Dj: mild soiling, rubbings and scratches. Spine: head & foot with thin wear, small splits and chips; small section missing to head. Head & foot of flaps spines with small open wear, splits and chips.