Peter Whaler: First Edition (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red cloth decorated in black on the front panel and spine; colour frontis. Actually undated, circa 1950. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and chips around the edges; previous owners' names inside. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 298pp. 32pp adverts. 6 illustration (one out of sequence. Usual yellowing to paper a discolouring to ep's Blue buckram with decoration.

hardcover. 1934 circa First Edition. 312pp, original green cloth, cracking to front endpaper, foxing to endpapers, Good. Children's novel. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. minimal library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ingleton (illustrator). Ex Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. slight wear to covers and cover edges, library marks, remains of DJ front, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ingleton (illustrator). Ex Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. slight wear to cover edges, library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear, library sticker spine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ingleton (illustrator). Ex Library.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Two-toned illustrations by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 118 pages. Traces the story of whaling in the southern seas until the 20th century.…

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Staining, wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 312 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Notes; No clear publication date given. Subjects; Prose. Fiction: Kingston, William Henry Giles. Whaling industry. Literature and Language. Arctic regions. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Staining, wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 312 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Notes; No clear publication date given. Subjects; Prose. Fiction: Kingston, William Henry Giles. Whaling industry. Literature and Language. Arctic regions. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. boook: slight bumping on corners and edges of spine. d/w: shelf wear and chipping on edges, 2 cm tear bottom back cover, some staining to back cover. Ingleton, Geoffrey C. (illustrator).

Condition: Fair. 1st. Octavo. Dark green embossed cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on covers. Silver decoration on covers. All edges gilt. 350 pages. Six (of eight) black and white plates present. Covers heavily worn at edges, and a little soiled. Corners bumped. Spine strip worn at edges and ends, and somewhat darkened. Gift dedication dated 1883 on reverse of front endpaper. Endpapers and prelims foxed and tanned. Contents shaken, and some pages coming loose. Occasional foxing to page edges. Some foxing in gutter, where staples in the binding have rusted.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Marks to cloth. Slightly sunned spine to cloth. No date but message to previous owner to inside cover is dated 1932. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). …

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Published in New York by St. Martin's Press, and Melbourne by Macmillan. Bookplate. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Mylar Protected. First Edition. 118 pages. Illustrated. Map endpapers. A nice straight, clean, unmarked book. Jacket has minor edge chip to top corner. Scan available on request. Geoffrey C. Ingleton (illustrator).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Publication year suggested. Physical description; 332 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Children's stories, English. Adventure stories, English. Sea stories, English. Kingston, William Henry Giles 1814-1880. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by MacMillan of London in 1964. Hardcover. 1st edition. Please note that this is an ex-library book full of stamps etc, associated with being one. Book condition: Fair to Good. Grey marked boards with green titles to spine with a sketch of a whaler on the front board. Inside pages are complete. Dust Jacket condition: Fair to Good. Price unclipped. Jacket has a few tears and creases. See photograph. Dims: 225mm x 145mm x 20mm. 118 pages.…

First Edition. Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Pp. [x]+118, frontispiece, title page vignette and most of the text illustrations printed in green & black (several full page), endpaper map; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled and a trifle sprung, the crest and motto of the Presbyterian Ladies' College (Melbourne) stamped in gilt on upper board; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel lightly soiled; school prize bookplate (dated1969) on blank preliminary leaf;Macmillan, Melbourne, 1964.First edition. Great Stories of Australia series, no. 5. Muir 1746; Forster 385.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Publication year suggested. Physical description; 332 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Children's stories, English. Adventure stories, English. Sea stories, English. Kingston, William Henry Giles 1814-1880. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable. 1st Edition. 389 pages with 3 full page wood engraved plates and a full page illustrated half title, original pebble cloth with gilt embossed spine and bland stamped cover, an owner name in ink on the heading of chapter one, neat and not really detracting due to the age, pale yellow endpapers a little discoloured, contents near very good, small octavo. *Scarce early edition by one of the first boys writers in the world. 1st published in London in 1851, this appears to be the first American edition. Nice in the original cloth.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Label removed from front endpaper, probably private library sticker. Red decorative cloth with oval vignette on front cover, appliqued illustration. James Durden (illustrator).

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. 1st Edition thus. This is the first US edition. Moderately foxed throughout. boards worn at edges, head and tail of spine, lower 2" of joint cracked. Uncommon . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25730.…

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear). 298 pps. + ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. True first edition of this posthumously published novel (Kingston died in 1880) and not - as the truly wretched entry on Kingston in CBEL would have us believe - a retitling of Peter the Whaler. The first edition comprised 2,000 copies. Publisher's decorative cloth with uncredited illustrations, all edges gilt.Neat repairs to minor wear at spine, using matching cloth. A bit grubby and with rubbing to the edges of boards. Good and sound.…