Eastward Ho! The first English adventurers to the Orient - Richard Chancellor - Anthony Jenkinson - James Lancaster - William Adams - Sir Thomas Roe. With Twenty Illustrations by Dulles, Foster Rhea - 1931

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Probable first edition, first printing, though unnoted. Date from title page. Blue buckram cover with gold titles. 20 b & w illustrations. Spine has a lean, though tight with pointed tips and square boards. Rubbing at some edges and tips. No DJ. Shipped in wrappable packaging..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles and spine titles. 199pp. including index and sources. Illustrated with 20 black and white reproductions including a 16th c. plan of Moscow and two maps (one map folding to two and one folding to 1 1/2 pages). A biography of the exporer/adventurer Will Adams. A very tight fresh, clean copy with fresh cloth and bright gilt. Very slight shadow of offsetting to front free endpaper, else a fine unmarked volume. Dust jacket shows light dusting overall and a short closed edge tear to rear panel with a couple of minor edge nicks. With the quite minor defects noted, a very near fine volume in a very good dust jacket. An unusually well preserved copy of this title. Uncommon..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. FINE BOOK, WITHOUT WRITING OR MARKS, IN GOOD ONLY DJ WITH GENERAL EDGEWEAR, LIGHT SOILING, AND LARGE CHIP AT TOP OF REAR PANEL.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Richard Chancellor, Anthony Jenkinson, James Lancaster, William Adams, Sir Thomas Roe. 20 illustrations. 199 pp. White endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and inscription on ffep. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Bottom corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn. VG+. 1st Edition.