Manatee by Bruff Nancy (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Special Edition. Ex Library book from the US Army. Worth collecting. A Romance/Adventure novel of Nantucket Whaling days. The back page has a "glued" picture of someone's wartime girlfriend or starlet. A person can only wonder about the existence of such photo. spine is broken and the general condition is poor.but still a good readable collectors's item. …

Paperback. Reprints Harlequin 1. 24, good (ADVENTURE NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. Reprints Harlequin 1. 24, very good (ADVENTURE NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable in Mylar. World Publishing, Forum Books Edition, 1946. Hardcover with DJ. The DJ has some shelf/edge wear, some small tears and chips to the edges. The DJ is now protected in archival mylar. Light shelf wear to the book, tanned pages, minor foxing. Boards and spine still intact. Tracking available on most domestic orders. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Pocket paperback. Shelf wear, edge wear, corner bumped, spine creased, slant edges rubbed, corner chipped at spine head. Pages toned with age. Pages edges sprayed yellow- faded. Shelved in plastic.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. black boards with silver gilt titles spine and silver gilt illustration to front board, minor rubbing to edges, 237pp, pages clean and VG condition.

Paperback. Reprints Harlequin 1. 24, very good -fine, reading crease (ADVENTURE NOVEL), paperback.

1945 Bruff, Nancy THE MANATEE NY: EP Dutton & Co, 1945 5th printing, 251pp, 8vo, jacket slightly worn at edges, grey cloth, small stain at lower edge of text block, else near fine.

Paperback. Reprints Harlequin 1. 24, almost near fine, (ADVENTURE NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition copy. First edition, fifth printing. No dust jacket, covers rubbed and marked with darkening to book due to age. Structurally sound.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 237pp. HARDCOVER. Moderate external wear to d/w with some loss. Old inscr. to ffep., o/w internally VG. Dustwrapper will be supplied in new protective sleeve or lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Glue residue from bookplate removal left on front pastedown, spine ends lightly bumped, else very good lacking the dust jacket. A novel about Nantucket whaling days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. NO DUSTJACKET. Pages have a light musty smell. 237 pages. No dustjacket. Dark blue hardback binding with moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges have moderately browned, ink writing to inside of front board o/w pages clean and tidy.…

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1104 in this important series, Author's First Novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

Paperback. Reprints Harlequin 1. 24, near fine, unread (ADVENTURE NOVEL), paperback.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Boards have only slight edge wear and are otherwise unmarked. First UK edition. Originally published in the US by Dutton in 1945. Page edges are browned with some dark spotting to the top edges and light spotting to the fore edges. Endpapers are browned with a little spotting and a previous owners name and date to the front free endpaper. The pages are otherwise unmarked. Jacket has some edge wear, light chipping to the spine, a small closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel and some discolouration, particularly to the rear panel which has a crease down its length. The price has been crossed out on the front flap with another price added in ink. Vertical crease down the length of the rear flap. First printing.…

Pocket Paperback. 1st Edition. Pocket Paperback. Very Good. First Edition Paperback. naked sea siren complete with nipples in cover painting!!! PYRAMID 24.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. Near Fine to Fine in pictorial wraps with yellow & red lettering & cover art by Fred W. Meyer picturing a sea captain looking at a gold ship's figurehead of a naked girl with her hair covering her breasts. Novel about the Nantucket whaling days & a sea captain's vindictive cruelty which brings about his ruin. Fiction, Novel, Vintage Paperback.…

First edition. Hardcover. 237pp. V.g. in d/w with minor wear extremities of spine, small crease to rear panel. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped but has small piece clipped from upper corner of flap. Author's first novel set in Nantucket during its whaling days.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No. 1. 192 p. 17 cm. Paperback. Creases and wear to covers.Scuffs in spine. Light soiling to white rear cover. Ink stamps inside front cover and on first leaf. Paper browning. Published by arrangement with E. P. Dutton & Co.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - John Crowther, 1946. 1st ed. Good in like pictorial unclipped jacket with chips and tears. Book has slight forward lean and foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good.

Condition: Very Good. Pyramid Books 1950.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. BRUFF, Nancy [251] pp. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1945 Sixth Printing 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" Jacket illustration by William Sharp A story of Nantucket whaling days. Searing hatred and vibrant love vie for the possession of captain Jabez Folger's soul. This stemmed from his first voyage when he had an experience so evil that it changed his life. Now and then a warm and gentle spirit would emerge, his old self. Under this influence he married a lovely Quaker girl but now he had turned against dry land. His love centered on the mermaid figure head on his boat, a symbol of the beauty and indifference of the sea. A powerful book, vivid characters, a plot breathtaking in scope.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition Second Printing Tight unmarked rust colored cloth with mustard colored decoration and lettering with unclipped dust jacket with photo of author on back of jacket with her signature may be a facsimile Very Good plus/very good plus.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back blue covers with silver titles and vignette. 8vo 237 pp. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.