Captain James Payen (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo (19 x 13 cm). pp viii, 222; 2-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Photographic portrait of author as frontispiece (with tissue guard). Pictorial brown cloth boards with bevelled edges; gilt lettering to front and spine. Boards with scattered spots and marks; edgeworn, with bumped corners and fraying cloth at ends of spine. Dust soiling and spotting to edges of text block. Bookseller's labels to front and rear pastedowns. Bookseller's pencil annotations (partly erased) to front free endpaper. Light spotting to preliminary pages and publisher's catalogue at rear; otherwise pages almost entirely clean. Gutters cracking in a couple of places and hinges a bit tender but text block remains firmly bound.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First edition. viii, 222, +[2] adverts; with a guarded portrait frontis. Contents in good order, with some foxing to margins. Front free endpaper is a replacement, and a few corners have dog-ear creases. Closed edges foxed. Vivid tales. In the original binding of pictorial cloth over bevelled boards: firm, a little rubbed and faded, and the spine darkened and puckered at the ends. A good copy and a good read.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A wonderful autobiographical account on the life of Captain JAmes Payen and his adventures at sea, edited by Thomas Durley. First Edition, Scarce.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrations include a frontispiece depicting Captain James Payen, as well as vignette initials to the beginning of each chapter.This is an exciting autobiographical account of Payen's life at sea, including his time as a fisherman as well as a captain for a merchant ship on behalf of the East India Company.Contents include 'First Days at Sea', 'Jacko, the Monkey', 'Cod Fishing', and 'Fishermen on Strike'.Edited by Thomas Durley, who describes himself as 'the Captain's amanuensis'.Two pages of publisher's adverts to rear of text.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. A bit of edge wear to the extremities with fading and wear to the raised bands of front joint. Light bumping to head and tail of spine as well as a few marks to boards. Front hinge is starting. Pastedowns and endappers are lightly age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to margins. Frontispiece and title page are beginning to detach from the binding starting from the bottom of the pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …