edited introduction oliver warner (9 risultati)

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Thus. Trade paperback, 190 pages including drawings; one spine crease, spine slanted, otherwise gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listings for Hrayr Berberoglu's The World of Wines, Spirits and Beers, and for your morning Joe, Olaf Hammelburg's Connecting Worlds: The Coffee Trail, From Farmer to Consumer (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Second Folio Society Printing. Green cloth with gilt decoration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge has yellow top stain. The unusual dust jacket has paper flaps on transparent covers. 127pp. The book has a printed book plate inside front cover. The has a one inch separation between the paper front flap and the transparent plastic. Full refund if not satisfied.

Condizione: Very Good. Reissue. Fine in fine decorated cloth covers and in publisher's slip case. Showing light shelf wear to slip case, remains very good.

Condizione: Very Good. Reissue. Fine in fine decorated cloth covers and in publisher's slip case. Showing light shelf wear to slip case, remains very good.

Hard back binding in publisher's original lemon and maroon decorated paper covers, gilt lettering to green cloth spine. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' 127 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. One small number to the front free end paper and in Fine unused condition, no slipcase. Member of the P.B.F.A. PACIFIC (Oceania).

127 pp, top edge and end-papers tinted, b&w illustrations, fine copy in gold-blocked, decorated, green, cloth boards, with clear plastic (price-clipped) d/j, as issued.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reissue. Hardback copy in yellow pictorial boards, burgundy cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. No dustjacket as issued. 127pp. With b/w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Housed in plain yellow card slipcase. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (14/4).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Green hardback book, with gilt titles on the spine, comes with translucent dust jacket, which have green flap sides to hold the dust jacket in position, price clipped. The book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Folio Society first edition of 1955, printed by letterpress, reprinted by photo-litho in 1973. 127 pages all intact, nice tight binding. All pages, text and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Printed in Great Britain by The Pitman Press, Bath. Set in Poliphilus Type and bound by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, Letchworth. The golden island of Tahiti seemed a paradise to the sea-weary crew of H.M.S Dolphin when, in 1767, they first set foot on its shores. This account of their experiences was written by the Master, to whose vivid and unspoken narrative have been added some piquant details from the Journals of other members of his ship's company. It paints an extremely entertaining picture of what happened when a party of English sailors stumbled into a Garden of Eden. Robert Gibbings, the illustrator, knew Tahiti well, and loved it: his engravings , exquisite in detail, convey all the timeless fascination of the island better than any camera. A brilliant read and definitively a book to be preserved for future generations.

First Edition. Wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings Fine copy.