Search Results: sailing all seas in the idle by long dwight

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 3rd printing. Owner's blindstamp, near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket in mylar cover..

Adlard Coles, 1974. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Adlard Coles. VG+. 1974. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition, Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 320 pages. With a preface by Alan Villiers.. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

London: Rubert Hart-Davis, 1957. 3rd printing. SIGNED and INSCRIBED ("Fair Winds") by the author--although it looks like that inscription has been written over by another hand in black ink; the author's signature in green ink is untouched). Very good (soiled covers--especially the back cover; front looks good) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine and spotted rear panel, price-clipped). A young American writes of his adventures in a 32-foot ketch, from Seattle to London, through the Pacific, Indian, and Mediterranean. Part of the publisher's "Mariners Library." Preface by Alan Villiers. Nice gift for the sailboat enthusiast. . Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

Rupert Hart-Davis London, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. Second Impression. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with blue lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Paper remnants to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine and board edges.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 4th edition; Fair; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine, grey with blue and brown print, call number label at bottom; Boards in grey cloth, light wear to spine caps and corners, mildly cocked spine, smudging/shelfwear; Text block has DJ flaps and bookplate adhered to front endpapers, penciled library marking on gutter of dedication page, small label on rear pastedown, cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks, some plates loose from binding; Inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title page; x, 310 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w plates). 1362870. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Slight fading to brown cloth..

Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 1939. Reprint. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are notably warped.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1950 No. 11 in The Mariners Library. Beige cloth stamped in blue on spine and front board, b&w illstns. Tight and almost square, damp stain and tanning to spine, faint foxing in endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957 No. 11 in The Mariners Library. A very good copy of the third impression. With b&w illstns. A gift inscription in front. Dust jacket is price clipped, light edge wear, in a clear film protective sleeve.

Adlard Coles. VG+. 1974. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 7.5 X 5.7 X 1.4 inches. 320 pages. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 2nd Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 320pp, b&w plates, The Mariners Library, first pub in 1938. Crusing around the world

Hodder, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. The jacket is marked and chipped. Some damp marking - boards and text. One ownership signature. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

R. Hart-Davis, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1957. Third Impression. 284 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate sunning to spine.

Harper & Bros., 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Light blue cloth, dark blue titles on front board & spine, dec. endpapers, x, 310 pp, 10 ff photo plates, 2 plans. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped, cloth browning near edges. Long spent three years nearly circumnavigating the globe from Seattle to New York in his 32-foot ketch Idle Hour. Then his boat was wrecked in a hurricane in Long Island Sound while he was doing a radio broadcast from New York. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Later printing. . VG-/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

Adlard Coles Limited, 1974 HARDBACK BOOK AND DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1988,REFERRING TO U.S.S. YORKTOWN. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1950. Mariners Library Edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Owners details title pade. Slightly cocked. Light foxing. Very clean interior. Dust Jacket: Fair. Edgewear and insect damage spine..

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. Hardcover. Good. . Signed by author.

London: Hodder, 1938 tan cloth slightly sun-faded or handling soiled, minor surface flecking, pictorial map endpapers, pencil name to half title, 352pp + frontis and plates, half of front panel of the dust jacket slipped in at front. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.