The Pearl Seekers

London: Andrew Melrose. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. 312 pages + frontis + plates + maps on endpapers. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's signature. Moderate browning to page edges. Cloth covers rubbed and dust stained. Heavy creasing and some tears and chips to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1954. 1st American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Gold-stamped black cloth, foxing on fore-edge & verso frontispiece. Map endpapers, b/w photos.. Handsome aged dust jacket w/ light edgewear. Solid. Printed in Great Britain. 13,000 PB shelf

London: Andrew Melrose, 1954. 56 illustrations. 312 pp. Maps on the endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titles. Corners lightly bumped. Black DJ with green illustration. Small chips, wear along the edges. VG+/VG. First Edition.

London: Andrew Melrose Limited, 1954. Black cloth on boards with gilt titles. Faint dusting of a little smudges to top and bottom margins and head of spine. Edges: light foxing and faint touches of soiling; faded small name stamp to top-edge. Eps: small name stamp to top and bottom margins; map of Australia and the Pearl Waters. Frontis: b/w… Read more about this item

New York: Coward McCann, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Light wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket worn, shows edgewear, chipping. The story of the Australasian pearl trade. Illus with dozens of photos, drawings, mapped endpapers.