mcfee william intro (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hans Alexander Muelle (illustratore). Small quarto, hardcover, fine in VG lightly sunned green slipcase. Sandglass, laid-in. 346 pp. Handsome reprint of classic about the sea, early California and the cattle business engravings in color by Hans Alexander Muelle. R. H. Dana's narrative has long since achieved the status of a classic, and quite deservedly so. Macy publication. top pages edged in green.

Hard Cover. Condizione: good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. BCE. 245pp; ex. lib. with pencil marks on title pg; chips & tears to edges of color illustrated dj with sticker on spine. Hardcover (dj).

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. Book Club Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION,clean, solid ; gold spine titles on dark green cloth hard covers.; 245pg pages; Thunderous sea yarn.based on violent mutinies in American History.1822 Globe Whaling Vesel.

1942. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Front hinge broken. Wear to corners & shelfwear around edges of book. Postage 4.00. Good-worn. Literature2515.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Alexander Dobkin (illustratore). Octavo, hardcover, good in orange tweed boards, burgundy spine. 415 pp. classic about the sea, early California and the cattle business engravings by Alexander Dobkin. R. H. Dana's narrative has long since achieved the status of a classic, and quite deservedly so. Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: vg+. Condizione sovraccoperta: vg. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustratore). Hardcover in slip case. xxii 346pp; contents clean; binding solid; b/w & gray illustrations; Heritage Club Sandglass laid in; 10.5" tall; navy lettering on front & spine of cream cover; no dj; light fading to edges of blue slipcase. Hardcover.

Hard Cover. Condizione: vg+. Condizione sovraccoperta: vg. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustratore). Hardcover in slip case. xxii 346pp; contents clean; binding solid; b/w & gray illustrations; Heritage Club Sandglass laid in; 10.5" tall; navy letterin on front & spine of cream cover; no dj; light fading to edges of blue slipcase. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated paper covered boards, heavily worn of edge; spine missing, compromising binding. Pages gingerly toned throughout; with frontispiece by Joan Slaone & introduction by William McFee. A good reading copy only. Poetry/Glass Case; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty), ex library; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Full Calf. Condizione: VG Very Good. Collector's Edition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed aquamarine blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xx, 346. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . The term "before the mast" refers to the quarters of the common sailors, in the forecastle, in the bow of the ship. His writing evidences his later sympathy with the lower classes. He later became a prominent anti-slavery activist and helped found the Free Soil Party. Dana gives vivid descriptions of the different groups he encountered on the journey. He described Californios as lazy and remarked that the local Indians were effectively enslaved by them, yet he also described the Indians as lazy. He wrote disdainfully of the uncleanliness and sloppiness of whaling ships and even more so of the Russian vessel he encountered, claiming that the Russian crew actually "lived upon grease; eat it, drank it, slept in the midst of it, and their clothes were covered with it." The one group he seemed to view quite favorably were the native Hawaiians in the area, or Kanakas as they were called, saying they were honest, generous, hard-working folk.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 713p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a dustjacket in good condition. The jacket is quite tanned, with edges worn, crinkling and chipping to spine ends, and a few small closed tears. There are a few small stains and scuff marks on the front panel. Mild tanning and a few scuffs to the edges of the first blank pages; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. With Wood Cuts by Hans Alexander Mueller.

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Comprising short stories & short novels, quarto, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey cloth spine, to page edges stained grey - faded, x + 713pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing to boards & edges, moderate soiling & foxing to spine, moderate fading to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing & glue staining to eps, moderate cracking to front gutters, verso of title page partially detached, moderate water staining to edges of page block, occasional light foxing throughout).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 1st of this Ed xx+346pp, frontis, color engravings, pict. cloth, slipcase nice rpt Howes D-49 Herd #642 in Cowan 6-Score #28 Merrill Aristocrat Zamarano 80-26 The hide and tallow trade in California. A classic and nicely printed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Reprint. Fine but for slightest bumping to spine ends, and a small star stamped on centre of rear pastedown. Toledano # 7 binding, with Kent endpapers in brown cloth with purple topstain. Jacket has some wear to extremities, with some loss to head and heel, which also have short closed tears. 236 titles listed on jacket ( 1935 or 1936 ), and 95 cents price.

hardcover, Condizione: Good, Doubleday Page, 1923, 1st., smaller 8vo., cloth, 302pp., crease to sp, lettering faded but visible, scuffed at corners, slightly cocked, owner's stamp, partly cracked at pp.1, G $.

Hardcover Comic. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Wilson, Edw. A. (illustratore). Limited Edition. No. 111 of 200 copies, limited edition. Spine shows heavy wear - 3/8th inch chip missing at bottom of spine. General darkening on covers. Lovely illustrations many in color. One double page print is signed by the artist, Edward A. Wilson. Extra post because of size and weight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.