126. Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel. London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1935).
First Edition. Kenneth Shoesmith dustjacket art. Nautical adventure novel. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #35886
First Edition. Kenneth Shoesmith dustjacket art. Nautical adventure novel. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #35886
First Edition. "Hilarious and thrilling voyages with the crew of the Nellie Swan, who never could beat their captain at poker; with Kitty McCann, master mariner in her own right, half owner and sole boss of the coastwise schooner Morning Star; and with the discouraged crew of the Rosabelle - a gentle name for a ship so vixenish that no sailor would stay with her. It is a book of unusual adventure for those who love the sea". Scarce title in original illustrated jacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chips and modest soiling, dime sized chip at lower rear panel. Item #21330
Mixed Edition. C. A. Federer dustjacket art. Important early Blieler listed fantasy and nautical adventure novel by Mason of psychic occurrences on a tropical voyage. Great dustjacket art of spirit guiding a young boy at the helm. Holt presumably used the first edition plates for this copy as the title page states 1920, however "March 1923" has been added to the copyright page to indicate a later printing. Scarce in any case with the original illustrated dustjacket. Very Good-Near Fine with some spotting to lower edge, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few cm sized chips at rear panel, few mild streaks at front panel. Item #9030
First Edition. Loedener dustjacket art. "A cruise of forty days to the Cape Verde Islands. His companions were a crew of natives; he was the only white man aboard." Near Fine in Very Good price clipped dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end and top front panel. Item #27626
First Edition. Adventurous romance set on a cruise ship. Near Fine-Fine in unusually bright dustjacket for Doubleday books, with only a few nicks and rubbing at spine ends, spine color only lightly faded. Item #7963
First Edition. 'A collection of most recent writings'. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #39994
First Edition. Philip Simmonds dustjacket art. Something of a nautical adventure novel of a "thrilling talk of insurrection in a Central American Republic, against which highly-coloured background matter of fact James Wishart, the young Scotch Engineer of the old tramp steamer, Candelshoe, wrestles with the perplexities of love and life. The dramatic solution of his problems is unexpectedly found in a small hotel kept by a queer, unrespectable English widow in disreputable Puerta Balboa, where the deep undercurrents of expanding American business activities and local political aspirations converge in turmoil." Near Fine in Very Good plus bright dustjacket. Item #20121
First Edition stated. Nautical novel of romance, "a young engineer, a girl writer of sentimental fiction". Very Good, contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, small sticker abrasion at lower spine end, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and few edges. Item #23990
First Edition. C. W. Bacon dustjacket art. Novel of sea adventures set in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. "British sailors in Salonika, Port Said and the Afro-Iberian line". Uncommon in bright condition and with error on wrapper flap: "A story of the commodore" later corrected to "a son of the commodore". Near Fine in bright Near Fine dustjacket, nicked at flap corners. Item #25568
Early Printing. Nautical adventure novel of ship sand sailors in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #8332
Early Edition. Novel of sea adventures set in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Near Fine in bright Very Good plus price clipped dustjacket with minor self wear. Item #14659
First Edition. Notes made by an engineer in the merchant service who reports upon the alleged superiority of life ashore. This copy inscribed and signed by McFee at front free endpaper. Very Good, some tape shadows at endpapers, moderate cover wear. Item #8333
Second Printing. Nautical novel of the "water front of a day that's long past; with the docks, the inns, the counting rooms; with the great square-riggers just in from deep water; with merchants and shipmen talking over their drink; with the chink of money; the barter and trade". This copy nicely inscribed and signed by McIntyre at front endpaper. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, quarter sized chip at lower spine end. Item #24775
First Edition. Steele Savage dustjacket art. Nautical adventure and presumed fictional account of the “landlubber,” Mr. Merriam, who saw and then went to sea on a five-master schooner. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket, small light stain at lower spine end. Item #25565
First Edition. Nautical adventure of contemporary Naval life. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #40774
First Edition. Collection of entertaining sea stories for anyone on a ocean voyage. Near Fine in Very Good in dustjacket, chipping at spine ends, darkened spine. Item #21622
First Edition. Civil War set St. Louis novel, adventure and romance on the Mississippi steamboats and steamboat races. Very Good in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and some edges, shelf wear at edges. Item #32687
Later Printing. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Near Fine with bookplate to inside front cover in Very Good price clipped dustjacket with darkened spine, shallow chipping to spine ends and edges. Item #15117
First Edition. Nautical adventure novel of nineteenth century whaling, from Baltimore to Liverpool to New Zealand. Very Good with some foxing to endpapers, in a Good plus dustjacket with wraparound dustjacket art, moderate edge wear with closed tears and creasing, shallow chipping to spine ends. Item #17950
First Edition. Nautical adventure on the Mayflower. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, some spine end and flap corner chipping, spine color lightly faded, few closed tears. Item #8340
First Edition. Harry Beckhoff dustjacket art. Collection of three nautical adventure stories of merchant seamen. The title story concerns "a seasick college boy [who] finds himself in command of spy infested ship, the marked game of the German submarines. A strenuous sea fight, a mysterious imprisonment and a spectacular rescue make this one of the most exciting yarns of the North Atlantic". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with nicking and wear to spine ends, general shelf wear, and tape to verso of rear spine edge and lower front edge. Item #15732
First Edition. Humorous novel of a girl, Major Scone and an old salt, Captain Burney, who try to rebel against the "smugness of a post-War English village". The novel is partly set on Captain Burney's cabin-cruiser "plying the quiet canals of Surrey". Very Good, few pages bumped at lower edge, some tan spotting to cloth in Near Fine dustjacket, only a few minor signs of wear. Item #21805
First Edition. Translated from the Russian by John Cournos. Nautical adventure novel from Soviet Russia of a man's struggle with nature on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Near Fine in Very Good plus bright dustjacket, few cm in diameter chip top spine end, top spine end chipped. . Item #6732
First Edition. Courtney Allen dustjacket art and illustrations. "Charles Selden, the hero of The Pearl Lagoon, is sent to the South Seas on the ship Tara to manage temporarily his uncle's copra business. Uncle Harry has told the boy of a mysterious derelict, whose strange career of death and shipwreck he has learned from the lips of a dying Irishman. Early in the voyage occurs the first in the strange chain of perilous chances which lead to the recovery of the derelict and the finding of its unexpected cargo." Almost Near Fine, gift bookplate at front pastedown, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, nickel sized chip at top front panel, chipping at spine ends and top and lower front panel, soiling to spine. Item #26590
First American Edition. Edward C. Caswell dustjacket art and illustrations. Presumably fictionalized narratives of French naval history and biography. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #25313