Search Results: Nautical Fiction from Charles Agvent

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1921). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. A humorous and fictitious travel account, a parody of the usual Polynesian idyll. Illustrated with photographs.

Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine in a soiled, intact, Very Good slipcase. Yngve Berg . Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound with a white buckram spine and corner tips with a lovely original lithographed fish design on the front and rear boards. Printed on handmade linen rag paper at the Royal Printing Office, Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Translated from the French by Guy Endore. Copy #216 of 1500 illustrated with 20 black-and-white lithographs by Yngve Berg and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The ninth book of the Press. Monthly Letter laid in.

Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on front pastedown; spine a tad darkened. Still Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase. Yngve Berg . Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound with a white buckram spine and corner tips with a lovely original lithographed fish design on the front and rear boards. Printed on handmade linen rag paper at the Royal Printing Office, Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Translated from the French by Guy Endore. Copy #1266 of 1500 illustrated with 20 black-and-white lithographs by Yngve Berg and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The ninth book of the Press.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American Edition. Hardcover. Text quite clean with only light, even foxing. Cloth fresh with gilt bright on the spines. The first volume has some loss to the head and heel of the spine with a portion toward the bottom reattached; the second volume has some loss of cloth to the front joint. Very Good set. Two volumes in publisher's brown cloth; eight pages of terminal ads in the second volume. BAL 13658. Melville's third book, issued about a month after the three-volume London edition, and his first major full-length fiction, a novel based on his whaling voyage experiences in the South Seas. MOBY DICK would be published two years later. Early small book label of S. S. Boyd on the front pastedown of each volume.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Slight foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Spine somewhat darkened, as often the case with this title. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Hans Alexander Mueller. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full ship's canvas over boards with a gold-stamped blue leather label on the spine. Introduction by William McFee; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #845 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with wood engravings in multiple colors and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Some light staining to endpapers and pastedowns from the glue used. Spine bright, most uncommon for this title. About Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Hans Alexander Mueller. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full ship's canvas over boards with a gold-stamped blue leather label on the spine. Introduction by William McFee; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #124 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with wood engravings in multiple colors and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Slight foxing to endpapers and pastedowns; bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine somewhat darkened, as often the case with this title. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Hans Alexander Mueller. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full ship's canvas over boards with a gold-stamped blue leather label on the spine. Introduction by William McFee; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #355 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with wood engravings in multiple colors and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.