Hardcover. Katherine Hepburn photoplay (illustrator). photoplay. VG book, GOOD DJ. FINE inside. Bright book & DJ. Tight. Rubbed cover corners. DJ worn. 1" chips center front spine & spine top Very Good book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). 4 movie photos precede tp.
Hardcover. Photoplay edition. (illustrator). Photoplay. VG book, VG DJ. Katherine Hepburn DJ cover. DJ complete with "Price 50 cents". Minor edgewear, several 1/4" chips & 1/2" tears. Book's title page encircles a still of Hepburn. 3 other stills from the movie follow. Both book & DJ bright & clean, in & out. No aging, foxing, sunning or any other kind of stain. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). FINE inside BUT: inked name on fep.
Hardcover. 134 illustrations. (illustrator). Early, not 1st. VG book, no D/J. Tight binding. Gilt lettered front & spine. Spine gilt darkened some. Bright gilt sailing ship on front. Very Good book, no DJ. Bright blue cloth. Bkplt, o/w FINE inside.
Hardcover. MOVIE EDITION. VG book, VG D/J(in Brodart). Frontis + 3 interior plates from movie stills. DJ has 1/2" max wear chips in some corners. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright book & DJ. Tight. FINE text.
Verlag: Random House (2007), NY, 2007
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Hardcover. 1st edition. MINT book, MINT DJ(in Brodart). AND: book stays closed when stood on edge, a sign of having been seldom, if ever, read. The "246897531" is, for Random House, odd. Random normally starts first edition number lines with a "2", not a "1". I know of only one other 1st edition with a "1" and not a "2". AS NEW book, MINT DJ. "246897531" number line.
Verlag: Brown Son & Ferguson 1963 (1929cp), Glasgow, 1963
Hardcover. 3rd reprint. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 4to, xvi,288pp. Bright & tight. Gilt lettered spine. Few plans, about 100 illustrations. Extrems rubbed. Bokplate. Inked gift note on half tp. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. Orig blue cloth.
Hardcover. Louderback illustrations. (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book & DJ. 8vo, 340pp. Neatly inked gift note dated 1922. DJ w small chips causing loss of (3) letters on DJ upper spine. GOOD(faded) book, GOOD(worn) DJ(in Brodart). VG text.
Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book, GOOD DJ. Book's spine ends rubbed, inked name inside cover & top edge w slight dusting. DJ whole: "15s net". DJ top edge with 1/2" chips & 2" closed tears. No loss of lettering but 1 tear into top of DJ central image. Moore's 3rd book. Made into movie of same name, starring Dustin Hoffman, I believe. Very Good book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). Red cloth. Gilt lettered sp.
Verlag: Saalfield (1930), Akron OH, NY, 1930
Hardcover. frontis. (illustrator). early edition. AS NEW book. All of DJ, in & out, bright & clean as new. Just some minor edgewear; few short closed tears & 1/8" wear chips. Book & DJ pristine; top to bottom, front to back, in & out. Book has never been read. Stand it on spine, open any page a bit and the book closes back up. From a Buffalo Gilted Age mansion's glass fronted book case. "AS NEW", "VERY FINE" book, FINE DJ(in Brodart).
Verlag: Seeley Service, London, 1922
Hardcover. Color frontis, many b/w plts (illustrator). New edition. VG book, no DJ. 8vo, 347pp. Black cloth w blue lettering. NEAR FINE inside. Story of the transition from square rigging. Very Good book, no DJ. Rebacked w orig backstrip reattached. New.
Hardcover. Louderback illustrations. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book, VG DJ. Foxed eps. Fep w neatly inked 1921 note. One corner bumped. DJ attractive but worn, 1/2" chips & 1" tears. Very Good book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Clean book & DJ. 8vo, 296pp.
Hardcover. 2nd printing. AS NEW book, AS NEW DJ(in Brodart). Immaculate, flawless book & DJ. Originally by Cornell U Press in 1972. More pix on request. AS NEW book & DJ. Not even the tiniest flaw in book or DJ.
Hardcover. Louderback plates. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book, GOOD DJ. Gilt lettered red ribbed cloth. Scuffed extrems. FINE text and plates. Inked name inside, dated 12/26/23 DJ price intact. DJ has many 1/4" chips and tears and two 2" closed tears. FINE inside, including text, all 4 plates, all 3 text block edges. No glue browned pastedowns. Furthur, book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine, a good sign of having been read with care, if at all. Very Good book GOOD DJ(in Brodart). 1st ed. Bright book, DJ.
Hardcover. 1st Printing. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. Tight. FINE inside. Black cloth with slightly darkened gilt spine lettering. Extrems rubbed. A 4" long bubbled streak on front cover. Flawless interior, no aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. Book stays closed when stood on spine. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 1st printing. FINE inside. 7.5"x5",328pp.
Verlag: Harper, NY, 1852
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Hardcover. 1st Am ed. FAIR book. FAE. Worn covers. Tight binding. First and last 20 pages lightly foxed. Last 30 pages water stained. 8"x5", 558pp. Neatly pencilled ownership name, dated March 24, 1852, the year first published. FAIR book. 1st ed. Book stays closed when stood on its spine.
Verlag: Estes and Lauriat (1898), Boston, 1898
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Hardcover. Dozens of full page plates. (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, VG DJ. Pristine faux vellum white covers lettered & decorated in blue, gilt & red. TEG. 1st edition. 8"x5", 298pp. Red silk page marker. Plates in b/w with captioned tissue guards. Book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine; likely never read. DJ of red cloth over stiff paper. Author/title in gilt on spine & front. Sunned spine. DJ top spine worn. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). AS NEW BUT: wrinkled spine ends.
Hardcover. 8 b/w Wenzell plates. (illustrator). 1st, 2nd state. VG+ book, no DJ. TEG. Gilt lettered red cloth. Book cover w minor flaws, else FINE. FINE inside, no aging, foxing, etc First edition with 1905 tp & cp dates & Scribner seal on cp, BUT: 2nd state as 4 pages of ads at end. FLAWS: Spine heel with 1/8" fraying. Rear outer guter edge with spot of wear; shown on 1st photo. Spine sunned but all gilt lettering still bright. Top tips with wear just into underlying boards. NO OTHER FLAWS. Top edge gilt bright as new. Other edges deckled; which normally collect dust, not so here. Tight, book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. This a sign of having been read with care. ZERO aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. VG+ book, no DJ. 1st ed. 1905 tp & cp, Scribner seal on cp.