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New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1932. Boards have rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

NY: P. F. Collier & Son Corp., 1930. Green boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wiese, Kurt. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Doubleday, Doran , 1930. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In black cloth with light rubbing. No jacket. .

P.F. Collier 7 Son Corp, January 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Vintage copy with firm binding, owner label inside, text evenly toned & free of marks, no jacket.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation. Very Good+. 1930. Hardcover. Slight wear to extremities; Carrying munitions during WWI, the Dumaru was struck by lightning, igniting the cargo and causing the crew to abandon ship in two lifeboats. One was rescued pretty quickly, but one drifted in the Pacific and soon ran out of water & food; 8vo; 271 pages .

William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. Hardcover. Good. 1931. First Edition. 271 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd.. Very Good-. 1931. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The spine of the book has light slant to it. The spine of the book also has ground-in dirt and there are several spots of discoloration to the covers. The lettering on the spine is noticeably rubbed. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are spots of discoloration, mostly to the endpapers. All edges of the text block have ground-in dirt and foxing. "SS Dumaru was a Design 1003, Hough-type wooden steam ship launched on April 17, 1918, in Portland, Oregon, as part of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation. On October 16, 1918, during her maiden voyage, Dumaru was struck by lightning off the coast of… Leer más

New York: Collier, 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kurt Wiese. 271 pages. A story of cannibalism in an open boat. Hard, embossed green boards. Part of the Lowell Thomas Adventure Library. Boards slightly soiled, endpapers have minor stains, corners bumped.

William Heinemann London 1931. first edition, blue cloth, 271pp illus, VG-(sl cocked, edges worn & boards rubbed, v sl internal seperation at rear hinge, sl foxing throughout) lacks d/w

Published by William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Wiese, Kurt. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. A true story of cannibalism in an open boat. Blue cloth, white titles and vignette. 7 woodcuts by Kurt Wiese, 7 b/w photographs. 271 pages. A few scattered foxspots to prelims else contents fine. Covers bright.

London: William Heinemann, 1931 8vo. original blue cloth (bookplates to front endpapers, scattered spotting, lacks dustwrapper); pp. [xii (last blank)], 272 (last blank), with illustrations & pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy.. First UK. Hard Cover. F-/No Jacket. Illus. by Kurt Wiese.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First US Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth stamped in red, red topstain. Extremeties of boards rubbed. Corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Previous owner has decided to 'improve' this book by colouring in the faded edges. Illustrated e/p's. Ink name to verso of front free endpaper, else a VG clean & unworn jacketless copy. Black and white frontispiece. Vignette on title page. Illustrated in black and white, 2 double-sided photo plates and 7 illustrations inserted. Fore edges dusty. 171 pp. Slight foxing/thumbing. Tight. The merchant ship Dumaru caught fire off of Guam in 1918. The survivors drifted in lifeboats to the Phillipines.; 001265; 8vo .

doubleday, , first edition . 1930, very good in jacket, the jacket has inside tape repairs, corner chips, rubbing

London: William Heinemann, 1931. 271pp; frontispiece; no d/j, blue boards, white title to front, title from spine rubbed; inscription to fep.; foxing to page edges and front and rear few pages, light edgewear, white spots to spine.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Very Good+. Hardcover. ; 5 volume set. Green pebbled covers with gilt spine detail have modest wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Books have never been cracked open. .

London: Heinemann, 1931 blue decorated cloth, map endpapers, light foxing to prelims and closed edges, 271pp + plates (photographs and illustrations), gift inscription to fly leaf, small name and address at head of title, true account of a shipping disaster and the cannibalism that ensued, First World War ammunition cargo exploded and the crew were forced to abandon ship and eventually had to each each other to survive in the open boat. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Kurt Wiess. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: William Heinemann, 1931. Some wear. Front guter partially cracked. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, William Heinemann, (1931).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. (x), 271; frontispiece, b/w illustrations; original blue cloth, title in white on spine and front, spine and corners bumped, bookplate, a good copy.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kurt Wiese. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, inscribed and signed by the author and stated first edition. Black cloth exterior shows some scuffing and toning along with edge and corner bumps/wear. The internal binding is good, no hinge issues. No other handwriting other than that from the author, no bookplates, no library markings. The inscription (pictured) is somewhat bizarre and almost seems a bit Hannibal Lecter-ish. The interior pages are toned due to age but are overall clean, there is a few scattered smudge marks and foxing spots, but these are minimal. Page 23 has a small crease in the upper outside corner. This book was originally published by Doubleday, of which this one is stated first edition on the copyright page. The later editions were published by Collier.

New York: Doubleday Doran & Co.. Very Good+. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. b&w drawings and photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages; [SIGNED] 1930 Doubleday Doran & Co. . HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and very neat in original black cloth with a graphic title design boldly in red. Inscribed with several florid lines of warning and signed by Lowell Thomas on the half-title page. Mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. Contents bright and fresh; includes illustrations from drawings by Kurt Wiese and b&w photos. VG++ to NF; Signed by Author .