Single-Handed

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons - The Knickerbocker Press, 1929. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Duodecimo (12mo). 273pp. Bound in the publisher's ribbed cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Fair dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges and corners, small spot of discoloration at the foot of the spine, endpapers… Read more about this item

New York: Putnam's Sons, 1929. First U.S. edition. Published in UK as BROWN ON RESOLUTION. "'Single-Handed' is blood and thunder, but the blood is real and the thunder, the thunder of the twelve inch guns" --Dublin Evening Mail. Brown, trapped on the most remote island of the Galapagos, has the odds against him. A precursor to Forester's Hornblower novels… Read more about this item

NY: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Book has owners name and bookplate, toned endpapers and minor cover wear thus very good. Dj has chips and tears. $2.00 price is present. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering and design. Lean to spine. Extremities sunned, corners bumped. Dust jacket lightly creased and rubbed.

New York: Putnam’s, 1929. First American Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with some interior tape mends. Basis for the film Sailor of the King, which starred Jeffrey Hunter as an English seaman holding off an anchored German warship long enough to enable English ships to sink it.

NY: Putnam Bound in tan cloth, stamped in black in green dust jacket. This is the second edition (stated). The dust jacket shows some rubbing to back edge, but is most acceptable. 273 pp.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good.

Putnam's Sons,, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.6000 in x 6.3000 in x 4.3000 in. Stated first edition. No dust jacket. Spine has right lean and is taped onto back cover.