E Allen Petersen (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1954. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Lacking dj. Cover shows minor wear and staining. Pages are clean.

Hardback. Condition: Good. . Junk Cruise Postponed Again. " What a rush of work there is getting a small ship ready for a long voyage ! When you are the busiest , there seems to be an increase in persons asking questions. I'm afraid. JUNK ACROSS THE PACIFIC. No DJ. 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good copy with slight foxing to pages. Good dust jacket, smart in new Brodart plastic overwrapper. No inscriptions.

1st Ed. 224 PP, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: Tani and Allen Petersen aboard their Chinese junk, the "Hummel Hummel". Eps: Map of the Pacific with track of the the junk. Hard cover. Ex Library copy, with stamps on endpapers, Covers soiled, outside hinges and gutters of endpapers starting. Flap of dust jacket pasted down on half title page. A very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.5. Voyage started in Shanghai, 15th April 1938, towards the West coast of the Americas. Return via the South Pacific, leaving from Peru in 1941. Call in the Marquesas, Pago Pago. Shipwrecked on Sudest Island near Rossel Island (South East Papua), then arrival at Samarai 25th October 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dr Petersen joined the New Guinea Volunteers. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Green cloth boards with browning and rubbing on the spine, some marks and handling wear, no jacket, reading copy only.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First UK Edition. 224pp, b/w photos, end-paper maps. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed. Blue boards, slightly worn at the edges and a little faded by the upper edge, in price-clipped dust-jacket which is rubbed at the folds, heavily worn at the edges with loss at the upper edge of the front panel with tears at the corners. The story of an American doctor and his wife who sailed a Chinese junk across the Pacific, down the West coasts of the United States, Cental and South America, and back west-ward through the South Pacific Islands. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy. 224pp, b/wplates. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 256p. Signed by author on title page. Cloth missing from front cover corresponding to hole in front jacket flap fold, top and bottom of cover and jacket spine worn, jacket has chips to edges. Desperate to escape the Japanese bombing of Shanghai in 1938, Petersen, his wife, and two crew members set sail across the Pacific to Los Angeles in a Chinese junk, Hummel Hummel. After arrival in San Pedro, the harbor of Los Angeles, the Hummel Hummel and crew sailed down the west coasts of the United States, Central and South America, and westward to the South Pacific islands. [From front flap] 15 b&w plates and frontispiece. (8-3/4"x5-3/4").…

1954. Elek. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - Poor/Fair, worn and torn.