Cap'N George Fred Himself by Tilton, George Fred - 1969

Doubleday, Doran and Co, January 1929. Hardcover. Used-Very Good/No Jacket. Very good condition. Clean covers and pages. Page tanning due to age. Hardcover

Doubleday Doran and Company. Good. 1929. Hardcover. Spine toned and book a little cocked. Text block also toned. Othewise good shape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Garden City, NY:Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Garden City, NY:Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1928.  xv+295pp. 1st edition. Illustrated from paintings and drawings by Harry Neyland, and from photographs. Introduction by M. C. C. Crawford. Hardcover.  Blue decorated boards lightly soiled, rubbed, and shelfworn, with a small hole to the front gutter. Page edges soiled and edgepoints gently bumped.  Internally, aside from a smudge to the half title page, pages are clean and bright. The binding is tight and hinges intact.  

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1929. Hardcover. Octavo; G; blue and gilt pictorial spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth exterior has mild shelf wear; lightly sunned spine; slightly rubbed edges; mildly shaken binding; nautical gilt illustration to front; text block exterior edges have slightly age toned; deckled fore edge; pictorial endpapers; former owner's name to front pastedown and half title page; cracked front hinge; photograph label adhered to front endpapers; inscribed by author to half title page; frontispiece; slight pencil text to verso to title page; interior lightly toned; illustrated; pp 295. 1361524. FP New Rockville Stock.

Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author Captain George Fred Tilton on half title page. Blue cloth boards with title and illustration in gold on front board and spine. Boards show soil and rubbing. Corners and spine ends frayed. Spine sun faded. Endpapers lightly foxed. Occasional foxing to text. Illustrations by Harry Neyland. Color frontis. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1969. Reprint. Reprint of 1927/1928 copyrighted work. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Illustrated endpapers. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge siling.. Neyland, Harry. xv, [3], 295, 3 p. Includes illustrations. Occasional footnotes. George Fred Tilton, a Vineyarder who was famous for his daring attempt to rescue the crews of eight whaling ships that ended up frozen in the Arctic after staying too long in their pursuit of whales. The boats were breaking up, being trapped in the ice as supplies dwindled. Somebody had to come to the rescue. Tilton climbs snowy mountains so high that they can t even bring the sled dogs. At one point Tilton and his men jump onto an ice floe and hope that the wind would push them toward the other side, and not out to sea. When he reached the point between mainland Alaska and Kodiak Island they were faced with a 37-mile water crossing. With nothing but sleds, he needed a boat.… Read More

Dukes County Historical Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. A terrific SIGNED copy by the Authgor on the Half Title Page. BLue cloth over boards with extensive gilt imagery and titles. No jacket, the whol showing light shelf and edge wear with page edges tanned. ; Signed by Author .