Search Results: the adventures of john wetherell by forester c s

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995-07-01. Paperback. Good.

Penguin Books, 1995-07-01. Paperback. Solid, clean copy, no tears or m.

Doubleday & Co. 1st printing,1953. Good/- hard cover. 12mo,cloth,379pp,illus. no dust jacket. shelwear,rubbing,fading,cover. bookplate with sailing ship opposite half-title page,light tanning,clean,tight,text. maritime.

London: Michael Joseph, 1994. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Very Good+. William Anderson cover. Larger trade paperback, pictorial blue/white covers.Age-toned paper, a bit of handling. No names, clean text. Solid reading copy. English sailor fighting French at start of 19th Century. 21400 shelf

Penguin Books, 1995-07-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Reading crease to spine. Pages unmarked.

Michael Joseph, London, 1994.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, near fine in turquoise pictorial wraps. Giftable. The authentic diary of a 19th century British seaman. Wetherell describes shipboard life with great good humour, revealing himself as a cheerful, straightforward observer with a gift as a raconteur. Historically interesting and highly entertaining. 275 pages.

NY: Doubleday. VG. 1953. 1st ed. Wetherell was first a ship's carpenter and then was impressed into the Royal Navy on the HMS Hussar which went aground in . France where he was captured and became a prisoner of war. Forester used Wetherell's diary to report his life. Rust colored cloth with ship design and title square in brown with gilt lettering. .

Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1953. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ has insect damage (book unaffected), some soiling, chipped head if spine ; Sepia plates of drawings by Wetherell, illustrated endpapers, DJ in Mylar, hinges intact; 379 pages; Autobiography of John Wetherell. Born in Whitby in 1780, Wetherell first joined the British merchant navy serving and trained and qualified as a ships's carpenter, before being impressed into the Royal Navy. He saw service on HMS Hussar, but after she went aground on the coast of France he was captured and made a prisoner-of-war and spent most of the next eleven years at Charlemont Givet Prison. .

Doubleday, 1953. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to jacket. Price-clipped. .

Michael Joseph, 1954. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Michael Joseph, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1.

London: Michael Joseph, 1954 Copy in red cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly creased and chipped around edges. Illustrated end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w illustrations.

GB: Joseph, 1954. Rebound in plain green cloth probably by W.H. Smith. BUT a very clean tight copy. Clean dustwrapper perhaps a bit trimmed. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG/VG- DW.

Doubleday, 1953. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to jacket. $5.00 price on jacket..

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited and with an Introduction by C.S. Forester. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (18s. net), generally toned, a few small closed tears. Magenta buckram, bumped at the top corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wetherell's diary during his time fighting for the British during the Napoleonic Wars.

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 276 pp illustrated Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (couple of small closed tears at corners) Previous owner's inscription on first blank page.

London: Michael Joseph. 1954. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is mildly age-toned with light rubbing to spine edges. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 275 pages. The diary of a British seaman who was pressed into the navy to fight the French at the beginning of the 19th century. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Michael Joseph; London., 1954. First impression. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Very good in good+ dust jacket. 8vo. 8 4/5".. With 7 plates illustrating drawings by the author.. Very good in good+ dust jacket. DJ a little chipped to head and tail of spine. Rear panel a little marked. Bookplate to front pastedown. 275pp.

Doubleday & Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. The diary of a 19th Century British seaman in the Napoleonic Wars at sea. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a small horizontal spine chip and is prize clipped, but otherwise whole, bright and clean, and protected by a plastic Brodart cover. As is, an attractive copy.

London England: Michael Jospeh, 1954. Hardback. The Adventures of John Wetherell. Previous owners name and date written neatly to inside cover. Red cloth with gilt lettering. John Wetherell was a native of Whitby, one of thirteen children of Nathan Wetherell, a wahling captain. He was born in 1780, and his father died in 1789 - killed, according to Wetherell, in a skirmish with Eskimos in Davis Stait. Wetherell himself died, probably in New York, sometime after 1834. He left behind him an autobiogtaphy, in three volumes of manuscript amoutningaltogether to a thousand pages. Illustrated. 275 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.