Desque Jean (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. NAU005258 CARP New York: Brentano's, 1932. cloth hb., good in a good dj, sunned on spine & boards, dj spine & part on front darkened and missing some chips, particularly along top of dj, Name in pencil on dj. The story of the author's 30+ years as a sailor; he sailed with the likes of Joseph Conrad, and has, adventures so outrageous you'd swear you're reading a novel. , autobiography tall ships exploration WWI World War I sailing nautical adventure.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 485 pages. Thick book; light wear; discoloring; a good book overall. Tape stains on the endpapers and inside the covers. The dust jacket is present but heavily creased, chipped and torn; tape repairs; price printed on the front flap. A scarce title. "Here is a must be read book for those enlightened persons have have come to distrust our legal machinery and to detest the ever tightening link between politics and crime. In tense, vivid phraseology reminiscent of Hugo and de Maupassant, Jean d'Esque has written a book that is at once a powerful phillipic against capital punishment, a scathing denunciation of crooked politicians, and a poignant drama of human love and hate. From beginning to end, this fast moving story of lovely Vanda Joyce, caught in a web of vengeful intrigue, and of her lover's gallant struggle to free her from is meshes, will grip and hold its every reader." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 176781.