Down Bay, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 175 pages; Signed by Author.

hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated in colour. 23 cm x 29 cm. 95 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear, name on flyleaf, gift inscription signed TKF on flyleaf. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Faint scuffing to wraps; faint soiling to outside edges of book; otherwise, as new. INSCRIBED by author initial title page. 278 pages. Blue papered boards with copper stamped lettering on spine. 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. "A personal collection of remembered moments in a small seacoast town in Maine." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 104 pages; Signed by Author.

96pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. With many colour illustrations A near fine copy. .First edition. Signed presentation copy.

Staplebound. Condition: Very Good. Author's Edition copy no. 4. Unpaginated. 24 cm. Signed inside back cover by Mary only. Owner's signature inside front cover. A few small stains to pages, minor wear to covers' edge.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Hardback. Interesting poem and other details of the famous Jervis Bay engagement with a German pocket battleship. 24pp., Tiny line of fading top edge, else very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. Signed by author to front endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine in printed wraps. Oblong 4to.? 207 pp. Printed wrappers. First edition, third printing. Signed by the author. Illustrated with historic images, photographs and maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed By Author Gene Fowler. CLEAN 1941 First Edition hard cover with Near fine price clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: very good. 3rd printing. 24 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt title on spine and on a white block on front board in A Very good dust jacket. Small 8vo with an inscription on front end paper to 'Hon. W.L. Mackenzie-King in appreciation of splendid leadership in Canada's thrilling war-effort' signed A. Gordon MacLennan 3/21/41. A presentation copy. very good A long poem by Gene Fowler describing how the Jervis Bay, an armed merchant cruiser, attacked a German pocket battleship in order that 29 ships in his convoy might successfully escape destrution. One of the most gallant and heroic naval episodes of World War Two.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S HAND -- PERHAPS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE DAUPHIN de FRANCE (LOUIS XVI) -- EX-COLL. LORD WARDINGTON. Second edition, expanded. London: for the Author and sold by S. Hooper, 1771. Folio (15 15/16" x 10 ¼", 404mm x 261mm). [Full collation available.] With 26 hand-colored engraved maps, of which 23 are double-page, 2 folding and 1 single. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. On the spine, 6 raised bands. Title and author gilt to the second panel. A curled dolphin within a coronetted circle gilt to the panels. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block sprinkled red. Scuffed generally, with some loss at the fore-corners. The lower half of the rear cover filled with new calf mottled to match. End-papers renewed. A crease to the upper fore-corner, initially moderate but eventually mild or beyond detection. Occasional patches of soiling or the odd spot of foxing. Pigment oxidation to the verso of the maps. Added in ink manuscript to the end of the preface (p. vi): "Examined and Corrected by ----" before (printed) "The Author." and ink corrections and additions to pp. v, 9, 10, 27, 29, 34, 35, 39, 43 and 52 (11pp. total). Graphite marginalia to the "Plan of the Harbour of S.t Juan de Port O Rico," apparently in a different (but still early, English) hand, converting yards to miles & calculating latitude or longitude; that plate with a split at the lower edge of the fold. Gilt white leather bookplate of Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, Lord Wardington, to the rear paste-down. Captain Joseph Smith Speer is a nebulous figure, essentially unknown outside his Pilot -- i.e., a naval atlas with a view to steering ships -- that was first published in 1766. The text of this second edition is virtually identical -- a page-for-page resetting, with some corrections or additions (see below; the text of the 1766 edition stops at p. 53) -- to that of the first, but the complement of maps has been doubled (13 to 26), providing a great deal more practical information for the pilot. [Full list of charts available.] The expansions trace growing and shifting British interests in the region: Santo Domingo, Cuba, Veracruz and Cartagena. The nuanced full color of the present volume may be unique, and that is no surprise, given the subscription -- in what one has no reason to doubt is the author's hand -- indicating that it was personally reviewed and emended by Speer himself. Even more intriguing is the possibility -- bizarre, admittedly -- that this revised strategic atlas for the contested West Indies may have been in the library of the Dauphin (heir apparent) of France. The crowned dolphin, repeated in the panels of the spine is the traditional symbol of the heir apparent to the French crown (le Dauphin; the title comes from the dolphin in the arms of Guigues IV, count of Vienne; the seigneury was sold to the Philippe VI on the condition that the king's eldest son take the title). The Dauphin could only be the future Louis XVI, who would commit France's military support to the American cause of Independence, continuing by proxy their long aggression with Britain. Assuming Speer annotated the volume without the knowledge it would come to be owned by his nation's arch-rival, it is the product of a work of almost unthinkable cartographic espionage. Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington (1924-2005), was a book collector of great renown, building a splendid library at his Oxfordshire home, Wardington Manor. His particular interest was the very finest examples of cartography. His sale (part two, Sotheby's London, 10 October 2006; the present item lot 486: £20,400 = $38,052) was a landmark in the field. The description notes that the volume was purchased by Charles W. Traylen (for Lord Wardington) at Christie's London (15 November 1978, lot 184) from an undesignated consignor. ESTC N25953; Phillips, Atlases 2698; Sabin 89248; Shirley, British Library M.SPR.1b.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Mimeographed sheets in mimeographed bradbound wrappers. 11pp. Slight age-toning, else about fine. A poem written about a true incident in WWII during which a British Merchant ship sacrificed itself to save a larger convoy. Apparently privately printed by Fowler, and distributed to his friends, this was later published as a book, and became one of the most beloved poems of WWII. This copy Inscribed in pencil by Fowler to friend and fellow author Charles Lederer: "To Bonnie Prince Charlie From Gene." Lederer was a highly successful playwright and screenwriter whose credits include *Kismet* and *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.* A rarity, this privately printed issue is virtually impossible to find. Ex-Carter Burden.