Samuels Captain S (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. The hinge is cracked at the front and at another spot inside. The top of the front endpaper is loose at the cracking. There is some spotting on the covers with fraying at the corners and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Petite, handsome volume bound in navy green cloth with gilted ornamentation at front cover and spine, in very good condition. Moderate cocking shows at spine. Moderate edge and corner wear, with some fraying, show at boards and spine. Second flyleaf at front is clipped. Volume is otherwise well-bound, clean throughout, and attractive. A sharp copy for gifting or collecting.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. xviii-308 p. Bookplate of the Fraser Institute on front pastedown. pastedowns worn. A bit wear to publisher's bindin (in particular head and foot of spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good copy in dark green boards with gold design and lettering. Some rubbing to edges. A bit of foxing.

12mo Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 308p. A few short inscriptions on endpapers with a water stain on front, as pictured. Interior is otherwise unmarked with a warm patina. Bound in navy blue cloth with gilt tilting and design, light insect damage on extremities, chipped spine foot, and bumped corners. Binding is intact although heavily canted and leaning, hinges are secure. Lacks a dust jacket. …

New edition. 16mo. 192 pp. Frontispiece, tissue-guard. Illustrations. Cloth binding gilt lettering & cover design, t.e.g., spine sunned, upper hinge giving, else good condition. (44121).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue illustrated cloth to boards with gilt and silver titling and picture of compass rose, sailing ship and lighthouse on front and ships wheel to spine. Book is tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than simple ex-libris plate to inside front cover and penciled in name of original owner, Francis H. Bacon. Nice frontispiece of the author with tissue guard. …

First edition. 8vo., orig. blue cloth stamped in silver and gilt, (xvi), 308, (4)pp. ads. Illustrated. Name o/w a near fine copy. "The great charm of Captain Samuels's story lies in its truthfulness; his narrative has an evident honesty of tone which one does not associate with sea yarns, and this unusual quality quite as much as the interest of the narrative itself fascinates the reader." (The Booky Buyer, Feb. 1887).…