Skipper Wooing by Jacobs: First Edition (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Pictorial tan cloth soiled and dampstained, thus a good only musty copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Missing. First Edition. New York, 1897. Gray cloth covered boards with black titles and cover illustration; mild wear; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; no jacket. interior is clean and unmarked; 190 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First American Edition. 190 pages. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight lean and book plate of previous owner, George Cottrill Dpwning, to front paste-down. A good bright copy with browning to end papers and block edge. Rear hinge strained. Publishers 8 pp catalogue at rear showing first edition of H G Wells, The Invisible Man.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. 1st. Bound in gray cloth with lettering and illustrations printed in black. Spine is slightly sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with illustrations on front cover and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 5/8." 190 pages, complete. Pages are clean; binding is tight. Former ownership signature in faded ink on front pastedown. A very clean and intact copy. W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author known for his short stories and novels. Two of Jacobs's stories are included in this book. …

Paperback. Condition: G+. No DW. 1st Thus.

1st edn., A VG copy - contents clean, but browning. Eps cracked at hinges. Green cloth has a few marks, but clean else with gilt lettering bright. Spine leaning a little.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 195 pages plus 8-page catalogue dated Autumn 1897. Early copy with a comma after the first W. in author's name on front cover. Size: 8vo.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. No DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Slightly cocked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1947 Guild Books Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression . Very good+ clean tight binding. Superior paperback bound in sections.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing, No catalogue at rear, comma after W on front cover, Very faded and scuffed cover and spine , brown pages, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp viii, 195. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. True first edition with the gilt comma on the front cover. Neat name on front endpaper, with slight browing to endpapers and slight rubbing, otherwise sound, very good plus.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo 195pp., Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction. Some browning, soiled cloth, ownership signature o/w wnership signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The works of W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) remain among the most distinctive contributions to late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction, combining maritime realism with humour and occasional supernatural elements. Best known for The Monkey's Paw, Jacobs drew heavily on his experience of London's docklands, producing sharply observed tales of seafarers, clerks, and river life. The present collection brings together a varied group of his works in both first editions and later issues, including British and American printings, and a small number of reprints. A Collection of Works by W. W. Jacobs Comprising the following titles: Salthaven - Methuen & Co., 1908 first edition. Deep Waters - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, August 1919 first US illustrated edition. Deep Waters - Hodder & Stoughton, undated, but believed to be the UK first edition (c. 1919). The Castaways - Hodder & Stoughton, 1916 first edition. Ship's Company - R. S. Surtees Society, 1986 reprint edition. Many Cargoes - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1903 reprint edition (first published 1896). The Night-Watchman and Other Longshoremen - Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 reprint. The Skipper's Wooing and The Brown Man's Servant - C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, London, 1902, leather bound edition. Notes on the Collection: This group complements the earlier set by extending into both later printings and variant editions, including American and illustrated issues. The presence of two editions of Deep Waters is particularly useful, showing both the UK and US treatment of Jacobs' work, with the Scribner's edition retaining its distinctive pictorial binding. Salthaven represents one of Jacobs' later novels, moving beyond short story collections into longer narrative form, while The Night-Watchman and Other Longshoremen continues his established maritime themes with character-driven sketches drawn from dockside life. Many Cargoes, his breakthrough collection, appears here in a later issue, still retaining strong collecting appeal as his foundational work. The inclusion of The Castaways and Ship's Company further broadens the representation of his output into the twentieth century. The small leather-bound The Skipper's Wooing adds a different element to the group, suggesting either a presentation or later collected edition, and providing some visual contrast to the predominantly cloth-bound volumes. Condition: Overall condition is good to very good (with Ship's Company being near fine, and The Castaways only fair due to substantial spotting). Cloth bindings generally clean with moderate wear and rubbing. Some toning and marking to spines and boards. Occasional bumping to corners and spine ends. Text blocks generally clean with typical age toning. Some spotting visible to edges in places. The leather bound volume with rubbing and light wear to spine. Some ownership inscriptions. A sound and attractive working collection, with a mix of brighter and more subdued bindings giving good shelf presence. Format: Mixed formats, predominantly in original publisher's cloth, with one leather bound volume and one modern reprint. Summary: A varied and visually appealing supplementary collection of W. W. Jacobs' works, bringing together UK and US editions, later issues, and a small number of reprints. The set offers useful breadth and complements a core Jacobs collection effectively. Weight of set approximately 4.1kg (unpacked). There will be no extra postage required other than that quoted for UK orders. International orders may incur some extra postage charges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 490pp. 9.5 x 7 inch. This is an extraordinary and unique collection of original serialised works extracted from the magazines between 1897 and 1908, collected by H.H.Hartley and bound together in 1921. The binding is professionally done so they are all backed onto each other with no other pages in between. They will all be first editions as they appeared in the magazines before any were published in book form. Each page has been numbered in pencil (as the original page numbers would not be relevant) and the Contents listing at the front allows you to go straight to the book you want.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 195 pages. Original green cloth, with gilt titles on cover and spine. This 1st edition has the comma after the first "W" on the cover in authors initials (later corrected) and no catalogue at rear as called for as a 1st printing. A paper fault at pages 143/4 due to a crease in the paper when printing has a split across the lower half. This is a natural fault at time of being printed and not man made and is not offensive. The cloth is VG+ and contents all tight and clean. Small pencil inscription on endpaper C.Fuller. Disley. VG+ Authors 1st book. And a good mystery it is.…

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii 1-195 [196: printer's imprint], title page printed in red and black, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. An early copy with a comma after the first "W" of the author's byline on front cover. Jacobs' second book, preceded by MANY CARGOES (1896), a collection of his seaport fiction. As is usually the case with these 1890's Pearson books, the pulpy text block and endpapers are darkened, but a very good, externally bright and fine copy. (#112468).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Title-page in red and black. Green cloth boards, spine and upper cover titled in gilt. Spine a little darkened. A very good fresh copy. First impression with a comma after the first W on the front board.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A bright first edition of this novel and novella collection by W. W. Jacobs, an adventure novel and a horror novella in one volume. The first edition, first impression of this work, with a comma after the first 'W' in the author's name to the front board. This was corrected in later impressions.A collection of a novel and a novella.'The Skipper's Wooing' is a humorous adventure novel, following a ship crew as they search down a girl's father so that the Captain can ask for her hand in marriage.'The Brown Man's Servant' is a taut horror story full of pursuit, hopelessness, and poor decisions.Written by the English author W. W. Jacobs.Bookplate and ink inscription of Alex Bridge to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little rubbing and a few minor marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate and ink inscription to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and clean. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…