New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1955. Second Edition. Quarto (26cm.); light red publisher's cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; [48pp]. Dustwrapper toned, with intermittent soiling and chipping to extremities; tear along rear spine hinge; inner panels price-clipped; interior text clean, sound. Near Fine in VG+ dustwrapper. Author and illustrator Edward..... More

Vestfold: Vestfold Historielag, [1964]. Octavo (23cm). Striped paper over boards, backed in cloth, with original dust jacket laid in at rear; 188pp. Ex-library, with stamp to verso of title page. Sound and straight, lightly rubbed, internally clean: Very Good. More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, illustrations and text stamped in black, in pictorial dustwrapper; 398pp, frontis.,5 plates. Boards rubbed; dustwrapper soiled and worn, with chipping and short tears to extremities; mild foxing throughout textblock, some pages dogeared. Overall Very Good. Author Josef Berger..... More

Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1924. Octavo (20.5cm). Blue cloth, stamped in gilt with vignettes to front and spine; plain endpapers; 262pp; frontispiece and 15 black and white halftone plates. Sound but rubbed, corners bumped, internally clean: around Very Good. An account of whaling in the 1910s. More

Rochester: M.T. Gardner, 1848. 32mo (12cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 192pp.; woodcut frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, small chip at spine foot, textblock uniformly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The adventures of Sammy, who reads "Two Years Before the Mast" and is inspired to embark..... More

Philadelphia: David McKay, N.d. (ca 1920s). Reprint. Small octavo (19cm). Attractively rebound (20th c.) in quarter maroon morocco over hand-marbled boards; 385pp, seven inserted leaves of color plates (including frontispiece). Fine. Pretty copy of this celebrated first-person account of life on a 19th-century whaler. Originally published in 1898, the work..... More

New York: Bramhall House, 1938. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Octavo (26cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 212pp; illus. Base of spine bumped, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket has a corresponding bump to base of spine panel, modest wear..... More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Octavo (24cm). Green cloth titled in gilt, top edge stained green; maps to endpapers; [xxiv],285,[1]pp; 16 black and white plates. Straight and clean, spine lightly sunned, scuff to upper corner of f.f.e.p., generally fresh: Very Good or better. More

Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1978. First Edition. Vol. 1: Report of the Independent Inquiry conducted by The Hon. Sir Sydney Frost. Vol. 2: Papers commissioned by the Inquiry conducted by The Hon. Sir Sydney Frost. Octavo (25cm). Two volumes in blue paper wraps; vol. I: [xii],342pp; vol. II: vi,[220]pp;..... More

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1982. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (25cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 238pp; illus. Small scuff to base of front cover, else Near Fine in the original illustrated dustwrapper, Near Fine. From the library of noted zoologist James G Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the..... More

London: Sampson Low Marston & Co., (1949). First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 243pp; frontispiece; 32 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, straight and clean, Near Fine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 18s on front flap), lightly soiled on rear panel and with a...... More

Clifton: Augustus M. Kelley, 1972. Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt; xiv,355pp; frontispiece. Straight and sound, with gentle rubbing and minor dustiness: Very Good. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1898. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 384pp; 113 plates and maps. Straight but rubbed, binding shaken with a few gatherings pulled: Good. More