Warinner Emily (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NOT a library discard; privately owned hardback book with dust jacket. The price-clipped jacket has a few small chips/tears and looks very nice under the fresh mylar cover I've added. The book is sturdy, clean and complete with owner label inside.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 267pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with mild wear, bookplate, jacket has tape repairs to the edges but remians complete, soiling and wear to the jacket.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1956). The adventures of Manjiro, a shipwrecked Japanese sailor rescued by Massachusetts whaler, who returned to Japan in 1851. A true and fascinating story, with a helpful index. First edition. Very good condition in dust jacket. 22 cm. 267 pp. b/w plates. The adventures of Manjiro, a shipwrecked Japanese sailor rescued by Massachusetts whaler, who returned to Japan in 1851. A true.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Voyager to Destiny; the Amazing Adventures of Manjiro, the Man Who Changed Worlds Twice. Warinner, Emily V. Bobbs-Merrill, 1956. 267p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib40.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher - Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1956. 1st ed. Very good condition, green boards with black spine, bumping and fraying to corners and spine tips, mild edge wear. Ffep missing. Page fore edges rough cut. B/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Cloth, 267pp. With illustrations. Fine in a near fine d/w. ".the true story of Manjiro, the Japanese who twice changed worlds: once in 1841 when he was shipwrecked, rescued by a Massachusetts whaler and carried to its home port, .and ten year later, .when he resolved to risk execution by returning to backward, archaic Japan.".

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, with b/w illustrations and plates. Quarter black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, spring green linen. Spine ends pushed, corners bumped. Faint spotting to top edge. W. D. Spence's apt illustrated ex libris pasted to front pastedown, smudged ink spots to ffep, else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: spine sunned, spine ends frayed, some chipping and creasing. Very good/ good+ A pleasing copy of Warinner's account of the adventurous life of the C19th Japanese fisherman, samurai and translator, Nakahama Manjiro, from the library of author W. D. Spence, with his attractive whaling-related ex libris. With the printed dedication: "To the memory of my valiant Mother who, more than any other, shared in my quest for the elusive." W. D. Spence (19232024) was a popular author, who wrote under a number of pseudonyms, most successfully as the award-winning historical romance novelist, Jessica Blair. In 1980, as Bill Spence, he wrote Harpooned: The story of whaling.

Indianapolis [1956], Bobbs-Merril. Cloth, 267p., index, 17bw photos, 2 maps, very good copy in somewhat worn dust jacket, ca. 14.5 x 22 cm., book fresh, clean and solid, contents are pristine. * * FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . *** **** *** . .AN HISTORIC FIRST: THE FIRST JAPANESE TO COME TO AMERICA . . . * In 1841, Manjiro was shipwrecked & brought to America. This is his story, of who he met, what he did, and his return to Japan. . An excellent work based on the diaries of Manjiro, a castawa . . *.