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193851651scNew York: Bonanza Books 1938. Octavo blue cloth hardcover 179 pp. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket: In the days when New Bedford led the world as the center of the whaling industry the harbor was filled with whaling ships returned from the seven seas and the wharfts were alive with whalemen. Albert Cook Church recalls those times. Seafaring folk were his forebears the New Bedford waterfront was his boyhood playground; inevitably his first interest was whaling. With a knack for photography and with extraordinary foresight he dliberately set out to assemble a pictorial record of everything to do with the whaling industry. He photographed all that caught his interest and even sent cameras and equipment to sea with ships’ officers when he was unable to go himself. Many pictures were lost but many came back to become part of the most remarkable assemblage of whaling photographs ever brought together. It is from this unique collection of over 40000 negatives and prints that this record is made. Bonanza Books, (1938). hardcover books
193844544New York : W. W. Norton & Co 1938 . FIRST EDITION # 106 of an edition limited to 112 copies signed by the author. Hardcover. Very good/Good. New York : W. W. Norton & Co 1938 . FIRST EDITION # 106 of an edition limited to 112 copies signed by the author. Signed by the author. Copious b/w illustrations. 179 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Light glue-stain on front paste-down from removal of bookplate; the acetate pocket at front which holds the signed photo seems to have been too small for the photo so the photo is wavy with a couple of light creases at the fore-edge; former ownerÕs name and inscription on half-title. Overall a very clean tight copy of this scarce title in a good only dust jacket that seems to have been ÒborrowedÓ from a Bonaza copy. Very good/Good. Insurance required to ship this item. W. W. Norton & Co hardcover books
193837924NY: W.W. Norton & Co. 1938. b/w plates. 179 pp. <br/><br/>Best photographic record of American whaling. This is a first edition in very good condition. W.W. Norton & Co. unknown books
193836244NY 1938. b/w plates. 179 pp. Best photographic record of American whaling and one of the classics in the literature. This is a first edition. Pictorial covers lightly foxed. Spine ends lightly worn. Tattered dj laid in. unknown books
1960234416New York: Norton 1960. hardcover. good/good. Over 200 illus. 4to blue cloth d.w. chipped and soiled head of cloth spine faded edge of a cloth corner worn. New York: Norton 1960. A good readable copy.<br/><br/> Norton unknown books
19386689New York. W.W. Norton and Co. 1938. Bound in pictorial gilt decorated blue cloth. Decorated endpapers reproducing pages from the log book of the Whaler Royal William dated 1834. t.e.g. 4to. This edition limited to 112 numbered copies of which this is number 69 signed by Albert Cook Church. Illustrated throughout with vintage monochrome photographs depicting all aspects of the 19th century whaling industry. Also included is a sepia-tone 8x10 photograph of the ship "Charles H. Morgan" encased as a frontis in glassine and signed by church. This signed Limited Edition extremely scarce. A Very Fine copy. W.W. Norton and Co. hardcover books
1956115069London: Mills & Boon Limited 1956. First Mills & Boon edition of the author's autobiography first published in Great Britain in 1950 by Hamish Hamilton. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with both her given and pen name "Ida Cook Mary Burchell." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Slattery. Books signed by Burchell are rare. Between 1936 and 1985 British novelist Ida Cook wrote 122 romance novels under the pen name Mary Burchell to fund the escape of nearly 30 Jews during World War II. She helped to found and from 1966 to 1986 was the second president of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1950 Cook published her autobiography We Followed Our Stars later re-edited and expanded as Safe Passage which is currently in print. Mills & Boon Limited hardcover books
2011196722no place: XLibris 2011. Trade Paperback. 261p. wraps. Signed by the author. "Autographed Copy" sticker to front cover XLibris paperback books
2008187690AuthorHouse 2008-09-30. Paperback. Very Good. Signed. Signed by author Christopher Cook on first page. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light wear. TP HS AuthorHouse paperback books
295376Albany: New York State Food Supply Commission. Treidler Adolf. Original poster. Color lithograph. 23.75" x 16.75"<br/><br/> This World War I poster published by the New York State Food Supply Commission was part of a homefront mobilization effort specifically for "patriotic agricultural service". The poster calls for men and boys to enroll for farm work and women to work in farm homes. It also offers help to farmers with problems related to lack of labor shipments storage marketing preservation pest and disease control and financing.<br>The top of poster is adorned by New York State seal flanked by American flags. The bottom features illustrations of farm and battle scenes with a quote by Charles S. Whitman that reads "It is clearly recognized that the man who tills the soil and produces the food for the soldier in the field and his family at home is rendering a patriotic service as truly as is the man who bears the brunt of battle." The poster is in good condition. Mounted on linen.<br/><br/> New York State Food Supply Commission unknown books
1963379Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Press 1963. 192p. illus. dj. Encyclopaedia Britannica Press unknown books
188874249London: Ward Lock Bowden 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. frontises folding map illustrations iv 1.xiv-xx 596 xi 4 600-1176p. Light blue cloth backed in darker blue cloth. 26cm. Some cover scuffing and rubbing. Age-toning. "No date edition" written on title-pages. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Ward, Lock, Bowden hardcover books
17842022London: printed for G. Nicol bookseller to His Majesty in the Strand; and T. Cadell 1784. First edition. Three quarto volumes 11 7/16 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm. plus large folio atlas volume 21 3/4 x 15 15/16 inches; 552 x 405 mm. 8 xcvi 421 1 blank; 12 549 1 blank; 12 558 1 advertisement 1 blank pp. Volume III bound with the final leaf of advertisements for Cook's First and Second Voyages. Three text volumes with twenty-four engraved plates and charts thirteen of which are folding and appendix with 1 folding letterpress table facing p. 528 in Volume III. Sixty-three large plates and charts one folding one double-page in the folio atlas volume eighty-seven total. With tissue guards. The text volumes bound in contemporary tree calf. Spines each with two black leather spines labels lettered in gilt. Spines stamped and ruled in gilt. A bit of rubbing and flaking to leather. Volume one rebacked with the original spine laid down. Each volume with some minor offsetting. Trivial foxing generally to preliminary leaves. Charts occasionally causing some offsetting. Publisher's advertisement in volume three with lower corner torn but not affecting text. Overall text is extremely clean. Atlas in contemporary marbled paper boards. Rebacked and recornered with half polished calf. Spine tooled in gilt. Generally the plates are exceptionally clean. Overall a very good set with beautifully clean text and plates. <br/><br/>"Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber who was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice" Hill. printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell unknown books
1784310843Dublin: Chamberlaine W. Watson Potts Williams Cross Jackson Moncriefe et al. 1784. First Dublin edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece and folding appendix table. 8 xcviii 421; 14 549; 12 559 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Near contemporary straight grained black morocco over marbled boards. Some shelfwear to boards internally clean. First Dublin edition. With engraved portrait frontispiece and folding appendix table. 8 xcviii 421; 14 549; 12 559 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. First Dublin edition of the official account of Cook's final voyage the issue without plates and maps. Beddie 1546; Forbes 72; Howes C-729a; Sabin 16250 Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts, Williams, Cross, Jackson, Moncriefe, et al. unknown books
17785440Paris: Hôtel de Thou 1778. Very Good/Attractive set of the French-language version of Cook's account of his second expedition A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World London 1777. This astonishing journey from 1772 to 1775 went around the globe as far south as possible to explore the existence or not of a postulated southern landmass. In the course of the voyage Cooks ships Resolution and Adventure crossed deeply into Antarctic waters ultimately turned back by ice barriers. Zig-zagging through the South Pacific Cooks ships also visited Easter Island the Marquesas Tahiti the Society Islands Niue the Tonga Islands the New Hebrides New Caledonia Norfolk Island Palmerston Island South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia many of which Cook named in the process. This French edition of his report was published close on the heels of the English version in two distinct formats a five-volume quarto and a six-volume octavo with a quarto atlas containing the extraordinary set of 66 engraved plates after William Hodges. The French translator Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard incorporated into the text a great deal of material from the rival account of the voyage that Johann Reinhold Forster published under guise of his son Georg based on a draft of Cooks own journal. In English Forsters account was published separately. A fine set. Six volumes octavo 20 cm and atlas volume in quarto 27 cm. Text volumes bound in cat's paw calf; six-panel spines tooled in gilt with red leather title labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Minimal wear. Atlas volume bound separately in contemporary speckled calf with black leather title label. 65 copper-engraved plates including double-page folding "Carte de l'Hemisphere Austral" portraits scenes botanical representations plans and other maps. Excellent condition throughout. References: Mitchell Library p. 52; Sabin 16249 4to ed. Hôtel de Thou hardcover books
1991701215NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1991. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. G.P. Putnam's Sons paperback books
1987701544NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1987. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. G.P. Putnam's Sons paperback books
19911541New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1991. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #1541 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1967EEG1039New York:: Dial Press 1967. 1967. Series: Science for Everyman. 8vo. 208 pp. 17 illustrations index. Red white-stamped cloth dust-jacket; jacket worn some cover freckling. Very good. Dial Press, 1967. hardcover books
1983138053San Francisco: Just Press 1983. 30p. 6.5x8.5 inches poetry prose illustrations very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Just Press unknown books
606409not signed on a 3/4 length shot standing in front of the U.S. Indian Agency with Alan Ladd his six shooter in his holster and Elisha Cook Jr. in a scene from the Warner Bros. 1954 film "Drum Beat". Photograph is on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling. 1954. Information slip on the back. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
17706043241770. of Captain James Cook. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" hinged to a sheet 6" x 9 1/2". Light foxing very good. ca. 1770. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
200127895Oxford: Oxbow Books. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 1842170562 . Illustrated. First edition. Fine in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Oxbow Books hardcover books
19233324Westfield MA/New York: Vitamin Food Company 1923. Small octavo die-cut in the shape of a jar 12.7 x 7.9 cm 30 pages. First edition. Illustrated wrappers printed in red and green. Invented in the late 19th century America's introduction to Vegex née Marmite was in 1913. The introductory text heralds the "health- and strength-building" properties of this distinctive and powerfully flavored food spread and its crucial role for British troops in World War I. Approximately seventy-five recipes all containing Vegex from Milk Vegex drink and Scotch Broth to Curry Sauce Paprika Goulash and Vegex Caviar. Though "the richest known food in vitamin B" it is noted clearly that "Vegex is food not medicine". A few small spots and two small pinholes to front wrap text clean and otherwise very good. Vitamin Food Company unknown books
20102261883Parragon 2010. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket faintly rubbed. 2010 Large Hardcover. These easy-to-make meals are perfect for the beginning chef. Parragon hardcover books
