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Good++, No Dust Jacket Old Orient Press First Edition, 1988 4TO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with title and illustration in silver on front board and spine. Boards show damp spotting/soil and edge wear. Fore edge soil. Text pages are crisp and clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Orient, Long Island, New York: Old Orient Press, 1988. cloth, hardcover with navy blue cloth and silver lettering, illustration., no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps. tight binding. appears unused.; there exists a maroon, numbered edition.; 408pp., 12 b/w illustrations including several maps. small images of whales, animals and ships appear in journal entries.; book has no isbn inside. states first printing.. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Good++, No Dust Jacket Old Orient Press Limited Edition, 1988 4TO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover. Deluxe limited First Edition of 250 copies, this is # 191. Numbered copy card is laid in and is lightly foxed. Maroon leather boards with title and illustration in gold on front board and spine. Two quarter sized soil spots to left side of front board, small one on spine. Fore edges noticeably foxed. Text pages are clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Orient, Long Island, New York: Old Orient Press, 1988. First, Deluxe Limited, 151/250. Hardcover. NF but for light foxing to page edges when closed, not affecting page faces, and former owner's signature on fep.. Italian Regal Maroon leather imprinted in gold. 60-lb. acid-free, museum-grade paper. End papers are antiquated facsimile reproductions of actual pages of Brown's handwritten logbooks. No dust wrapper, as issued. 410 pp. Numbered copy card laid in. All three of Brown's hazardous global whaling voyages of 1841 to 1847 appear in the journals which appear herein. More than 500 sketches from Brown's logbooks also appear here, exactly as he drew them at sea. In addition, many recently-unearthed photos and documents appear here for the first time. The Captain, his family, and the people of his heritage community of Orient and of Long Island come alive and appear in specially added chapters in this book about a rich and important part of America's heritage. Includes indices of persons, places, and… Read More