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TIGRESS.
Edition: First printing.
London: The Bodley Head, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Naval adventure set in the days of Elizabeth I. Attractive wrap-around dustjacket illustration with a painting of two ships under full sail by Brian Sweet. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-370-310632.
Condition: Near fine in a price-clipped but otherwise fine dustjacket. (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 13049More details Price: $30.00 -
IN HAZARD
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Time Incorporated, 1966. Classic novel of a ship encountering a killer hurricane in the Caribbean. Foreword by Hughes.Frontispiece portrait. xxiii, 229 pp.
Condition: Near fine (lower right corner of front cover slightly bent)
Book ID: 10798More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FLAG CAPTAIN.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Ithica, NY: McBooks Press, (1999.). The eleventh Richard Bolitho novel, set in 1797 at the time of the Great Mutiny (originally published in 1971.) 384 pp. Cover painting by Geoffrey Huband. ISBN: 0-935526-668.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56292More details Price: $10.00 -
H. M. S. SURPRISE.
Edition: First US printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in the Aubrey - Maturin series, set in the Indian Ocean in the early 1800s. 318 pp. Striking wrap-around dustjacket painting by George Sottung. ISBN: 0-397-009984.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (minor sunning to edges of boards, light signs of wear to the dustjacket at the ends of the spine and corner folds and discoloration to the interior of the dj from dampness, closed tear at lower edge of front cover, and another at fold of rear flap, minor sunning to the lettering on the spine of the dj) - overall a clean, straight and attractive copy of this uncommon book.
Book ID: 90891More details Price: $225.00 -
THE HERO SHIP.
Edition: First printing.
NY and Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a story of an aircraft carrier's disastrous encounter with a Japanese air attack, culmininating in attacks by kamikaze pilots, based on one of the great stories of valor during World War II. 304 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear to dj).
Book ID: 73203More details Price: $25.00 -
SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentina.' As Michael Cunningham states, it 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (bottom edge of textblock slightly bumped with light creasing to lower corner of first several pages.)
Book ID: 29560More details Price: $25.00 -
SAILORS ON THE INWARD SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentine.' As Michael Cunningham states, 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 70269More details Price: $30.00
