The Wanderer of Liverpool
by Masefield, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, missing d/j, blue clothbound boards (a little biumping on edges), fading on spine and gilt titling; pages tight and unmark
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1930. 1st reprint. hardback. Good, missing d/j, blue clothbound boards (a little biumping on edges), fading on spine and gilt titling; pages tight and unmarked; foxing on endpapers (and back paper torn out). Provenance: Prof Bill Trowbridge OBE, engineer and physicist, one of founders of computational electromagnetics (pencil inscription on ffep). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC72833
- Title
- The Wanderer of Liverpool
- Author
- Masefield, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, missing d/j, blue clothbound boards (a little biumping on edges), fading on spine and gilt titling; pages tight and unmark
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Pages
- 119
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- history, naval, 1st, Masefield, Poet Laureate, Georgian Poets
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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