wetherell john c s forester editor (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good+. William Anderson cover (illustrator). 1st Edition thus. Larger trade paperback, pictorial blue/white covers.Age-toned paper, a bit of handling. No names, clean text. Solid reading copy. English sailor fighting French at start of 19th Century. 21400 shelf 275 p. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. John Wetherell, illustrator (illustrator). Stated First Edition. Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean orange cloth boards with sailing ship decoration on cover, brown title box with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper. Decorated endpapers. Pages and edges are clean. Illustrations by John Wetherelll, 19th century British seaman and author of this authentic diary. Edited and with an Introduction by C. S. Forester. 379 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has a few tiny chips to spine; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 276 pp illustrated Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (couple of small closed tears at corners) Previous owner's inscription on first blank page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. The diary of a 19th Century British seaman in the Napoleonic Wars at sea. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a small horizontal spine chip and is prize clipped, but otherwise whole, bright and clean, and protected by a plastic Brodart cover. As is, an attractive copy.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. John Wetherell (illustrator). First Edition. THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN WETHERELL Edited with an Introduction by C. S. Forester. Michael joseph, London 1954 First edition. 276pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in very good condition bound in red cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine and decorative cartouche to the front. The price clipped dust wrapper has a little edge wear but is other wise fine. First published in 1954, The Adventures of John Wetherell, is part of a much larger manuscript professing to be a diary kept by seaman John Porritt Wetherell, a native of Whitby, England who was born in 1780 and died sometime after 1834. John Wetherell's records of his nautical life have been long sought after by readers interested in this period of history, and fortunately C. S. Forester acquired the manuscript and selected the most well-written and unforgettable passages for publication in this book. The Adventures of John Wetherell focuses on the period when he was pressed into service on the HMS Hussar and was held captive as a prisoner of war in Givet, France after the Hussar was shipwrecked. For many, life on board ship during the early 19th century was almost unendurable, and although John Wetherell served under a particularly brutal captain, his situation was not atypical. In contrast, life as a prisoner of war, though no picnic, had it's advantages. Though prisoners in Givet often suffered from lack of exercise, most had enough to eat and a place to sleep and were able practice, their trades (or learn new ones) and do business with townspeople, learn subjects like French, navigation, and music, form bands, and even marry. Over 2300 British seamen survived over 10 years of imprisonment in Givet and were marched back through France with their divisions, billeted in small towns - the prison band often performing wherever they stayed - before eventually returning to England and the homes and lives they treasured so dearly. An observant and sensitive account, John Wetherell's diary is a tribute to the fortitude and spirit of those courageous seamen. Ref BB3.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Garden City/New York, 1953. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in a price-clipped jacket (not book club edition). Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a couple short closed tears at extremities, and a darkened spine (as pictured). Dust jacket designed by Edward Gorey. Illustrations by the author, Wetherell. F3000A.