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WHITE WATER: An Alaskan Adventure.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1960). Hardcover first edition - An autobiography of the author's time on the icebound seas along the coasts of Alaska - and especially of the years he spent aboard whaling ships. Illustrated with both line drawings by the author and photographs. 256 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 87581More details Price: $24.50 -
THE DEATH OF EVENING STAR: The Diary of a Young New England Whaler.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story set back in the days of whaling in New England in 1840. Illustrated with woodcuts by the author.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (some rubbing and light wear to the edges.)
Book ID: 12968More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WIDOW'S WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which opens on Cape Cod in 1761 where a woman refuses to give up the right to her home after her husband, a whaling captain, is lost at sea. Historical and bibliographical notes. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0061782145.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86862More details Price: $18.50 -
HARPOON IN EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel set in Nantucket and New Zealand in the 1830s during the great days of sperm whaling. Promotional book mark laid in. 430 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, some edgewear to dj, especially at head of spine)
Book ID: 83986More details Price: $20.00 -
AHAB'S WIFE or The Star-Gazer.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Morrow, (1999.). A tour-de-force inspired by Melville's Moby Dick, a recreation of 19th century America. Illustrations by Christopher Wormell. 660 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47737More details Price: $10.00 -
AHAB'S WIFE or The Star-Gazer.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A tour-de-force inspired by Melville's Moby Dick, a recreation of 19th century America. Illustrations by Christopher Wormell. 668 pp. ISBN: 0-688-171877.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (bookplate.)
Book ID: 47981More details Price: $17.50 -
THE PHANTOM WHALE.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1937.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Adventure story of two boys who stowaway on a whaling ship as it sets sail from New Bedford, with a captain determined to capture the great whale responsible for the death of his son. 249 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, chips and edgewear to the dj, but the cover illustration of 4 seamen in a whaleboat, one with a spear above his head, is still appealing.).
Book ID: 53886More details Price: $18.00 -
NANTUCKET REBEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ives Washburn, (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set among the Quaker whalers living on Nantucket Island when the Revolutionary war began. As Stackpole notes in his introduction, due to its location 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, when "war came, with a suddenness for which the islanders were unprepared, it brought a time of strain and sorrow in which a peaceful community was split by conflicting loyalties." INSCRIBED on the frontispiece and underneath Stackpole's signature is the notation "Curator of the Nantucket Folger Museum." Double page map. 306 pp. Jacket and map by Charles Greer.
Condition: Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (a bit of fading to the edges of the boards) in a very good dust jacket with one short closed tear, light edgewear. Original price of 4.95 still present on dj flap.
Book ID: 88401More details Price: $60.00 -
NANTUCKET: The Far-Away Island.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947. dj. Hardcover - Tenth printing, originally published in 1936. Illustrated by the author with drawings throughout, full-color frontispiece of Nantucket Harbor. Map on Nantucket Island on the front endpapers and of Nantucket Harbor on the rear. Index. xi, 316 pp.
Condition: Near fine in green cloth in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some wear to the ends of the dj spine).
Book ID: 88593More details Price: $20.00 -
MY OWN CAPE COD.
Edition: Family Bookshelf edition.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - Life at Still Cove, overlooking Mill Pond in Orleans on the Cape - including information on the old houses on Cape Cod, whaling, and much more. Illustrated with photographs by John Schram. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-397-007175.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 56827More details Price: $16.50 -
OUT OF THE ICE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75185More details Price: $15.00 -
SHALLOWS.
Edition: First US trade paperback printing.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 53515More details Price: $12.00
