Joseph J. Fuller (51 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 349 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. book has some stains on the cover and the jacket has edge wear with some chips and small tears, still a tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Very Good condition in a very good dust jacker, 8vo, pages: xxxi,[i],[3]-349. Dark blue cloth with sine titles in gold, portrait on title page, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Stated first edition. Light wear, top of block slightly dusty, back-strip creased, tight binding, bookplate on front paste-down (possibly Robert W. Griffin, 1919-2015, of Woods Hole, Mass.), signed by editor on half-title. Bookseller accession no.: 17143. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Edited by B. C. Busch, these memoirs of Captain Fuller (1839-1920), who specialized in hunting sea elephants for oil, principally at Heard and Kerguelen "Desolation" Islands in the Indian Ocean. 348 pages including explanatory notes, DJ in mylar sleeve. Volume IX in the American Maritime Library.; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 " dj rubbed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 97 pages. Mary Sullivan (Story); Karel van het Reve (Unofficial Russia); Erich Heller (Man Ashamed); henry Gifford (Andrey Sinyavsky); poetry (Jenny Joseph, D.J\. Enright, Pphilip Larkin, Roy fuller, Frank Ormscy, Charles Causley, Alastair Reid, Peter Porter, Laurence Lerner); Flaus Mehnert (From Mao to Marcuse to Marx); M. van Creveld (Beyond the Finzi-Cotini garden); allan Rodway (There's a Hole in Your Beckett) John Bowle (Emile Durkhein), other book reviews; David Markish (Where China begins); Helmut Schelsky (German Dilemma); political pollsters; letter from Sidney Hook, Hans Habe (Thoughts on the Nobel Prize.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Joseph Fuller (1839-1920) was a well known whaling captain who sailed out of New London, Connecticut for half a century after the Civil War. He engaged in a little known branch of the whaling industry that hunted sea elephants for oil, principally in the Desolation Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. Few men knew the hazards of the 23,000 mile round trip voyage. …

Magazine. 22p., 8.5x11 inches; photos., minor ink stains on front wrap, rubberstamp address on rear wrap blotched out, wraps somewhat rubbed, else in very good condition with clean white pages.

Magazine. 30p., 8.5x11 inches; photos., in very good condition with clean wraps and pages. Rear wrap mailing address of Andrew McDonald, General Chairman of the ROU.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxxi, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Fuller, Joseph J. 1839-1920. Whalers (Persons) United States ; Biography. Whaling Kerguelen Islands. Sealing Kerguelen Islands. Southern elephant seal. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. Inventory # D634-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 27, No. 5, Issue 290, May 1974 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown - Harold Plume and his Team of Spirit Doctors Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company ** ARTICLES AND STORIES (1) The Glory that Was Athens by L. Sprague de Camp (2) The Bloodstained Ghost: Witness for the Prosecution by J. R. Butler (3) Comet Kohoutek, Fizzle of the Century by J. Gordon Melton (4) Harold Plume and his Team of Spirit Doctors by Fay C. Oliver (5) The Past Recovered by Hereford Carrington (6) "Life Field," The Molds that Shape out World by Curtis Fuller (7) My Brothers Dreadful Predictions by Joseph H. Cook (8) The Brushy Creek UFO Scare by Jerome Clark; PRICE = $7; G/VG; A few stains on fc; writing on bc ** AUTHORS; L. Sprague de Camp; J. R. Butler; J. Gordon Melton; Fay C. Oliver; Hereford Carrington; Curtis Fuller; Joseph H. Cook; Jerome Clark; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edited, with introduction and notes by Briton Cooper Busch. Mystic:Mystic Seaport Museum. (1980). 349pp.Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges with a small tear at the bottom edge of the front cover. Otherwise in very good condition. Book itself shows only some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good, clean copy. …

1st edition. 8vo. xxxi + 349pp. Several b/w. illustrations. Original boards. Rubbed pictorial blue d/w. with red and white lettering to spine. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley. ISBN 0913372218 US$15.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxxi, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Fuller, Joseph J. 1839-1920. Whalers (Persons) United States ; Biography. Whaling Kerguelen Islands. Sealing Kerguelen Islands. Southern elephant seal. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. 8vo. xxxi + 349pp. 3 illustrations, map. Original boards. Rubbed pictorial d/w. lettered in red and blue, with 1cm. tear repaired with tape. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley. ISBN 0913372218 US$17.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Out of print. An original publication of the Mystic Seaport Museum. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tan textured paper-covered boards, lettered in red. 4th ptg.: Sept. 1943. Minor rubbing to extremities, slight moisture mark along lower front cover fore-edge. Firm binding, unmarked interior. Illus. dust jacket G with chipped spine extremities, corners rubbed, modest surface marks and rubs, 1" closed tear and related crease along bottom front panel edge, now in mylar. 251 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Col. Francis Arnoldy and Joseph Bernstein (illustrator). Book.…

Mystic, CT : Mystic Seaport Museum, (1980). Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named Ã"DesolationÃ" Islands in the Indian Ocean. Published from a manuscript at the Blunt White library in Mystic, and edited by Briton Cooper Busch. Very good condition in lightly rubbed dust jacket. 23 cm. xxxi, 349 pp. b/w plates. Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named.…

hard cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 349pp. Illus. With dust jacket. A fine coy. Fuller was a well-known whaling captain who sailed out of New London. Active in the speciliazed and little-known branch of the whaling industry that hunted sea elephants for oil, principally at Heard and Kerguelen "Desolation" Islands in the Indian ocean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rubbing to jacket.

First edition 338pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (rubbing), illust.

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in Jacket 1980. PAGE EDGES HAVE SOME FOXING. Flat pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Jacket is not torn Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref G81.…

Mystic, CT : Mystic Seaport Museum, (1980). Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named Desolation Islands in the Indian Ocean. Published from a manuscript at the Blunt White library in Mystic, and edited by Briton Cooper Busch. Fine condition, with two different dust jackets. Presumably the "top" one (pictured here) is issued by the American Maritime Library, of which this book is IX in the series. 23 cm. xxxi, 349 pp. b/w plates. Memoirs of whaling captain who came to specialize in the sea elephant trade, principally at Heard and Kerguelen, the aptly-named.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1956. The June, 1956 issue of Fate Magazine (issue no. 75) in Raymond A. Palmer's now-legendary paranormal-reporting non-fiction enterprise, which began with, in its first issue, Kenneth Arnold's cover account of flying crescents which "skipped like saucers across a pond", an event which, for whatever reason, kicked off the modern era of UFO events. After that, Fate introduced countless events which remain, to this day, fodder for paranormal documentaries and investigation. 12mo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 130 pp. A Near Fine copy - very near fine, with just touch edge wear on a small scale, light sunning at rear cover top and bottom (see scans), and of course some modest age-toning to the newsprint paper pages, which remain supple. High Grade, particularly for a periodical which often shows substantial wear from use. See scans. See the scanned image of the contents page for the articles herein, which cover such topics as UFOS Over Japan; Parapsychology; Ghost on British Highways; Teleportation; Precognition; Appolonius of Tyana; Transformation; Time Travel; The Headless Horseman of Belmont; an Unruly Poltergeist; and of course much, much else, including the standard Departments, always engrossing in themselves, all on various other paranormal or inexplicable phenomena. Interior art and photography is largely uncredited. A piece of paranormal history, and an example of a unique branch of Americana, in very highly collectible condition. Please see scans. l50n.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines faded, corners rubbed with minimal loss, front joint of fourth volume beginning to split. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1911 Half-Leather. Complete in four volumes. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles, marbled boards and endpapers, photographic and engraved frontispieces and plates. A detailed account of the history of New York State covering the governorships of Grover Cleveland through Charles E. Hughes (1882-1910), with profiles of each administration, accounts of the various officers, government departments, and commissions, and chapters on each county. Includes chapters on Theodore Roosevelt's administration, and on the origin and construction of the barge canals. Lists of New York State Assembly members and state senators from 1883 to 1911 follows text.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Library binding with ink stamps on a few pages inside. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1929 Hard Cover. 768 pp. A collection of numerous articles on current political and social events, along with letters to the editor, music and drama reviews, books of the month and book review sections, etc. This volume discusses everything from birth control to the dangers of cocaine to telepathy to the failure of the Federal Reserve.…

Condition: Fine. 250 pp., hardcover, THIS IS A BRAND NEW, NEVER-OPENED BOOK!! . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 470 pp, first edition, bookplate glued to front pastedown, foxing and sunning to inside papers and end papers, ink and pencil underlining Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First edition. A limited edition copy of this collection of poetry from noted authors dedicated to Alan Hancox, signed by the assembler, Alan Tucker. A limited edition copy, No. 76/350. Signed by Alan Tucker to the edition page. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. With a wood engraving to the title page by Miriam Macgregor. A work assembled by Alan Tucker, containing contributions from a variety of skilled authors. With an introduction by Melvyn Bragg, the contributors include D.J. Enright, U.A. Fanthorpe, Michael Foot, Duncan Forbes, John Fuller, Seamus Heaney, Michael Horovitz, Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell, Jenny Joseph, P.J. Kavanagh, Laurie Lee, Peter Levi, Brian Patten, Lawrence Sail, Jon Silkin, Jon Stallworthy and Charles Tomlinson. A collection of poetry dedicated to Alan Hancox, whose second-hand bookshop became a focus of literary life in Cheltenham. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding.Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Alan Tucker's signature to edition page in pencil. Fine. Miriam Macgregor (illustrator). signed by author. book.…