Morrell Capt Benjamin Jun (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. George Marston (illustrator). 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION USA 1832. Rebound in dark brown calf with gilt lettering and bands spine, raised bands spine forming 5 compartments, new brown EPs. Red seminary library stamp on title page. No other library marks on any pages. Clean covers, missing much of the gilt in the spine littering, sold binding, complete with short-ttile page and with four pages of publisher's ads at end. Title page is heavily embrowned and has a tideline. Subsequent 30 pages have increasingly faint tideline in upper outside corner. Pages 161 to 176 have heavy embrowning. Most other pages are bright but some have light scattered foxing (not heavy). The book measures 222mm tall x 150mm, and has 492 + [4] pages, b/w frontispiece. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1832, Fair Only/no dj, thick octavo, 492pp plus 4pp ads in rear, original tan cloth hardcover, cloth split along rear exterior hinge, original title label on backstrip partially chipped away, binding shaky with several signatures loosening, covers very stained & edges shelf-worn, xerox facsimile frontispiece of author tipped-in, light water-staining & foxing here & there throughout text, in dire need of a nice restoration, at least a decent reading copy, Howes #M-818.".

NY., 1853. b/w frontis. Morrell was a resourceful sealer who pioneered many South Seas routes. His narrative is of great interest and is one of the earliest first-hand records of many South Sea islands. this work is the source from which Edgar Allen Poe derived his famous Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. However, he was also known as the biggest liar in the Pacific. - Hill 1186. Judd 130. Jenkins p. 129. Howes M-818. The book was first published in 1832. There was a subsequent edition in 1841, and then this one, all with the same pagination. Worldcat shows this to be the scarcest of the three, with only five libraries holding copies. Small oval blindstamp on title page. Remains of card pocket on back free endpaper. Otherwise a good copy, bound in quarter calf over boards.