Beam Ends, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING IN DUST JACKET PRICE CLIPPED, BOOKPLATE.

8vo. [8], 241, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 3 plates. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, pictorial map endpapers (minor sunning, light offset toning on endpapers), w/ d.j. cover art of the schooner Sirocco by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, photo of author & three shipmates on back cover (minor chipping head & foot of spine, couple closed tears, edgewear), still VG/VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First edition, 2nd printing, stated, of the author's first book, and autobiographical memoir expanded from his June, 1930 article entitled "The Sirocco Calls-In" in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin. By 1930, Flynn had been expelled from Sydney Grammar for theft, dismissed from a Sydney Shipping Co. for helping himself to the petty cash, and usually just ahead of the law had washed up in New Guinea where he purchased the cutter Sirocco from Lars Halvorsen. After stowing provisions, he and three mates set out on a 2000 mile voyage up the East coast of Australia to New Guinea, while claiming that they'd been shipwrecked. His later memoirs recount Flynn's adventures in New Guinea, dabbling with slave trade, standing trial for murder, mining the New Guinea gold fields, and succession of romantic epic movies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. [8], 241, [1] pp. Photo frontispiece., 3 plates. Map Endpapers. DJ cover art of schooner Sirocco by John O'Hara Cosgrave It and photo of crew on rear. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, chips, closed tears along edge.

First Edition. Ownership signature. Fine clean copy with the gilt-stamping still gleaming in a bright lightly used dust jacket with some tiny tears and a couple of tiny chips. Very attractive copy of a book usually encountered worn. Map endpapers. The dust jacket has a wonderful color painting of FlynnÕs sailing yacht, Sirocco, at sea under full sail. On the back of jacket is a photograph of Errol Flynn and his crew.

First Edition - British. Very slight foxing to endpapers and to outer edges, otherwise cloth bright and clean with the gilt-stamping still gleaming in a very good dust jacket which has been reinforced with paper on the inside and with some dust soiling to the rear panel. The dust jacket has a wonderful color painting of the sailing yacht, Sirocco, at sea under full sail. On the back of jacket is a photograph of Errol Flynn in full costume sitting on the set of his film The Prince and the Pauper, reading a copy of the American Edition of Beam Ends.

First British Edition. Near fine clean copy in a excellent bright dust jacket which is wonderful color painting of the sailing yacht, Sirocco, at sea under full sail. On the back of jacket is a photograph of Errol Flynn in full costume sitting on the set of his film The Prince and the Pauper, reading a copy of the American Edition of Beam Ends.