Emma Delong (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Binding tight, interior clean and bright, other than previous owner's name on ffep. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt lettering; shelf worn; lightly bumped to corners and spine ends. Spine faded; mild rubbing to gilt. Rough cut pages. Upper fore-edges colored blue. A heartfelt autobiography by Emma Wotton De Long, widow to arctic explorer George Washington De Long, lost to the disastrous Jeannette Expedition, 1879-1881. 525 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1884, Volume 1 only. Brown decorated cloth. Bookplate on front paste-down else unmarked, hinges excellent. No maps in rear pocket. Only light wear (Very Good).

Condition: Fair. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Later printing. Sm 4to. xx,911pp. Illus., maps. Fair book. Hinges cracked. Gifter's inscription on flyleaf. Fold-out map on pp. 318-19 torn in half; map in rear pockeet missing. (Arctic regions, Siberia, North Pole) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex Library book with green paper on spine and serves as quarter binding. This paper lists the title, author and former call number. Protective green paper all four corners. Brown boards with black and gilt titles and decoration to upper board and spine, blind stamped decoration to lower board. Illustrated in black and white. The map is missing from back pocket. The hinge in the middle of the book is cracked in the sense that the binding threads are visible, the hinge is still functional. Text pages are toned around edges. The frontispiece and title pages have heavy foxing. There is lighter foxing marks and fingerprint stains on various text pages. Corners are sharp. Good reading copy. Would have listed as Good except for the middle crack and rear crack on rear hinge. Binding is still fairly tight inspite of these cracks. Endpapers have writing and markings indicative of library books. Endpapers are a golden brown.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Dark browb HB with black ship illustration and black lettering on front/black and gold lettering on spine/covers in mylar/some; 440, 911 pages; Dampstaining/book contains intact foldout map/a few minute pinholes, one about as large as a pencil eraser/1st edition, 2nd printing/hinges loose/ owner emboss on title page.

Condition: An excellent set. Edition : 1st edition, contemporary ½ morocco with cloth boards. Spine with 5 blind tooled compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two and three. All edges marbled, paste down and free endpapers marbled. Both volumes contain name of previous owner written in contemporary ink and dated 1884., together with the large (17 1/8" x 20 1/2" ) rare hand coloured print of the loss of the Jeannette entitled ?Le Naufrage de la Jeannette? Painted by Poilleux-Saint Ange dated 1884 and published by Jules Hautecceur in Paris.Setting sail out of San Francisco in July 1879. DeLong?s intended route was to sail through the Bering Strait and to enter the Pole byway of the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island. Two years passed, and the last sighting of the Jeannette was at Wrangel Island. In the space of those two years the crew fought against the ice, but was unable to save the ship which was eventually crushed by the floes. Her crew escaped, but some perished in a storm, and most of those who reached land died from extream conditions., Size : Small 4to, Volume 1 contains 8 plates on steel and wood, 7 maps and numerous woodengraved text illustrations. Volume 2 contains 8 plates on steel and wood, 15 maps and numerous wood engraved text illustrations., Volume : 2 volumes, References : National Maritime Museum I 965, Volume 1 P. frontis, title, printer?s imprint, preface iii-v, blank, contents vii-x, illustration listing xi-xii, 1-440; Volume 2 P. frontis, title, printer?s imprint, contents iii-viii, illustration list ix-x, 441-911.