The Cradle of the Deep, First Edition (19 results)

VGD. KURT WIESE (illustrator). GREAT READ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. 8Vo, Blue Boards With Tanning All Around Edges, Spine Printing Is Good, Text Clean And Unmarked, Still Wuite Bright, Binding Is Solid, Simon And Schuster, 1929, New York, 261 Pg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover is in fair condition. No dust jacket. Cloth on board covers is heavily worn, faded, stained, discolored, and frayed. Binding is loose in several places, but no pages appear to be missing or loose. Pages are lightly foxed or stained but are free of markings. Book is protected in a mylar bag. ; 9 X 5.90 X 1.30 inches; 261 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing (of 75.000 copies). Gilt lettering on blue covers. 8vo, 261pp. Humorous map end papers. "Grace G. Fitzgerald 1929: written on the dedication page. On the verso of that page is a newspaper clipping, dated 3-9-29 about reading this book. Included with the book are: A BOMC pamphlet "About this book and its Author" and another, entitled: "A statement to our members about "The Cradle of the deep"." Spine sun lightened & stained at the back top end. Contents fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "memoir describing her childhood attracted media attention and praise. But the acclaim turned to anger when her autobiography was outed as a fiction and it was revealed that she had been raised at her family's home in a middle-class California suburb. This is the story of Joan Lowell, whose colorful 1929 childhood memoir, "The Cradle of the Deep," about her experiences growing up on a schooner sailing the Pacific Ocean and South Seas in the early years of the 20th century, was the literary sensation and scandal of its time. "[L. A. Times] witty illustrations by Kurt Wiese, including color map endpapers. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 261 pages.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. pp: xii, 378, index; color frontispiece, 40 pages of plates from photographs, three map plates, folding map. 9" x 5.5" Treves' account of his voyage includes history and lore of Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, &c.

first edition. very good book faded spine, blue binding.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. W. H. Overend (illustrator). 1st Edition. 250pp, 4pp pub. cat., Frontis. and 2 plates. Attracive illus. blue cloth covers with gilt and black titles.

Hardcover. First Edition. xii, 378pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth lettered in gold on the front and the spine. Color frontispiece. With fifty-four illustrations from photographs by the author and four maps (one foldout). Publisher's slip with discount notice bound in. Light edge wear, mild toning to spine panel. A very good copy. ; Octavo.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. OBLONG COLOR ILLUSTRATED DUSTJACKET ONLY, NO BOOK DJ ONLY, LITE rub wear DJ EDGES WITH mended TEAR AT TOP OF DJ SPINE, 1974, VG , so begins this gentle Genealogy of family of winningly Salty Dogs. There is Christopher Collie, WHO BRAVED UNKNOWN WATERS to discover the New World, Isambard Bowwow Brunel, builder of Largest Heaviest sinkingest ship in History, & Commodore Byrd-dog who sought new Sea Passage over the top of the World, younger & older readers its enchanting story of tradition & Family Pride. its wonderful Chuckle. Pure visual delite.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: NVG. No Jacket. Modest Stein (illustrator). First Edition. Book has slightly bumped and worn corners and spine, spine lettering clean and complete, over lettering and design complete and clean, inserted picture label on cover shows wear. Inscribed and dated by the AUTHOR to his mother. Signed by Author(s). Book.

AudioCD. Condition: Fair. First Edition. NOT A BOOK - old record. Pelican was the cheap label produced by the Universal Record Syndicate. One of the many short-lived pre-WWI labels available in Britain, Pelican records, costing 1/1, later 1/-, were first produced in 1913, lasting until early 1914. The records were made abroad (prussia) and the masters were drawn from, among others, Jumbo & Edison Bell. The catalogue numbers used a P-1 series. This one P44. Pressed in Prussia (good choice). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. TITLE: THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP By JOAN LOWELL 1929 Illustrated AUTHOR: JOAN LOWELL PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NY 1929 EDITION: FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1929, 75,000 COPIES stated CATEGORY: First Edition, Adventure BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: FADED BLUE TO GRAY CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket; the outside is in fair (rough) condition; there are chips to the cloth at the top and bottom edges of the spine; there is some sunning along the edges; the back board has some light spots. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. SIZE: 6 x 9 (approximately) PAGES: 261 pages. Fair/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: ILLUSTRATED By KURT WIESE. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 20 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 007603. Book.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. W. Oberand (illustrator). First Edition. Decorative cloth, gilt and black titles and pictures on front cover and spine. Top and bottom of spine a little bumped, spine marginally sunned. Internals have a few age spots on endpapers otherwise the pages are clean and tight. A good condition book. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frederick Treves (photographer). (illustrator). xii, 378, [2] pages. With illustrations from photographs by the author, and maps. Color frontis. Folding map at back. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, GCVO, CH, CB (15 February 1853 - 7 December 1923) was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, now known for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, "the Elephant Man". Treves was also the author of many books, including The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923), Surgically Applied Anatomy (1883), The Highways and Byways of Dorset (the county in which he was born) (1906), A Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations (1892), Uganda for a Holiday, The Land That is Desolate, and The Cradle of the Deep (1908). This last volume is an account of his travels in the West Indies, interspersed with portions of their histories; describing (among other things) the death of Blackbeard the pirate, an eruption of Mount Pelée (which destroyed the city of St. Pierre, Martinique), and a powerful earthquake at Kingston, Jamaica, shortly before he landed there. He was also chairman of the Executive Committee from 1905 to 1912 of the British Red Cross, and was the first president of the Society of Dorset Men. From 1905-8, he was Rector of the University of Aberdeen. Around 1920 Sir Frederick went to live in Switzerland where he died in Lausanne on 7 December 1923 at the age of 70. His funeral took place at St. Peter's church, Dorchester on 2 January 1924 and the King and Queen were represented by the Physician-in-Ordinary, Lord Dawson. The West Indies or Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean, that includes the island nations and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago. The region is known as the area running from Florida westward along the Gulf Coast, then south along the Mexican coast through Central America and then eastward across the northern coast of South America. Bermuda is also included within the region even though it is in the west-central Atlantic, due to its common cultural history created by European colonization of the region, and in most of the region by the presence of a significant group of African descent. Indigenous peoples were the first inhabitants of the West Indies. In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands, where he is believed by historians to have first stepped foot in the Bahamas. After the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, Europeans began to use the term West Indies to distinguish the region from the East Indies of South Asia and Southeast Asia. In the late sixteenth century, French, English and Dutch merchants and privateers began their operations in the Caribbean Sea, attacking Spanish and Portuguese shipping and coastal areas. They often took refuge and refitted their ships in the areas the Spanish could not conquer, including the islands of the Lesser Antilles, the northern coast of South America including the mouth of the Orinoco, and the Atlantic Coast of Central America. In the Lesser Antilles they managed to establish a foothold following the colonization of St. Kitts in 1624 and Barbados in 1626, and when the Sugar Revolution took off in the mid-seventeenth century, they brought in thousands of African slaves to work the fields and mills. These African slaves wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as indentured servants. The struggle between the northern Europeans and the Spanish spread southward in the mid to late seventeenth century, as English, Dutch, French and Spanish colonists, and in many cases their slaves from Africa first entered and then occupied the coast of The Guianas (which fell to the French, English and Dutch) and the Orinoco valley, which fell to the Spanish. The Dutch, allied with the Caribs of the Orinoco would eventually carry the struggles deep into South America, first along the Orinoco and then along the northern reaches of the Amazon. Since no European country had occupied much of Central America, gradually the English of Jamaica established alliances with the Miskito Kingdom of modern-day Nicaragua and Honduras, and then began logging on the coast of modern-day Belize. These interconnected commercial and diplomatic relations made up the Western Caribbean Zone which was in place in the early eighteenth century. In the Miskito Kingdom, the rise to power of the Miskito-Zambos, who originated in the survivors of a rebellion aboard a slave ship in the 1640s and the introduction of African slaves by British settlers within the Miskito area and in Belize British Honduras also transformed this area into one with a high percentage of persons of African descent as was found in most of the rest of the Caribbean. From the 17th through the 19th century, the European colonial territories of the West Indies were the French West Indies, British West Indies, the Danish West Indies, the Netherlands Antilles (Dutch West Indies), and the Spanish West Indies. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing.

XII,378(2) S., 42 Bildtafeln (davon 1 farbige Frontispiztafel u. 1 Faltkarte, Gr.-Oktav, blauer OLn. - Erstausgabe. In der Folgezeit vielfach neu aufgelegtes, sehr populäres Werk. - Im vorderen Innengelenk minimal angeplatzt. Insg. wohlerhaltenes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Weise. Tall octavo. 261pp. Some sunning on the boards, very good in attractive very good first printing dustwrapper (with $2.75 price on rear flap and no mention of later printings )with some internal repairs, small chips, and spine-sunning. Account of a woman's enchanted childhood sailing the seas with her father, but later were at least partially discredited.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. E.P. Dutton. New York. 1928. 378 pages. Book is tight and clean. Binding is strong and sound. Hinges are strong. Reed cloth stamped in gold. Red cloth is bright and clean. A couple of faint fabric lines on front panel. Deckled page edges on foredge and bottom. Slight toning to endpapers. Rare original DJ is a beauty. Most of these DJ have crumbled away yet this one is a beauty and 100% intact. Most minimal DJ flaws limited to light sunning to spine; minimal rubbing along edges, and a price-clipped flap. This is an incredible copy of the classic text that captures Sir Frederick Treves' voyage through the West Indies. Told from a first person point of view interspersed with portions of each land's respective histories; describing (among other things) the death of Blackbeard, the eruption of Mount Pelée (which destroyed the city of St. Pierre, Martinique), and the powerful earthquake and fire that decimated Kingston, Jamaica, shortly before he landed there (1907.) An incredible early copy of Sir Frederick Treves' classic in rare original DJ in collectible condition. VG++.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, second printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now in new archival sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.