[Rarebooks] FS: 2 on Travel-Description & History

[Gerard Gormley]

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ABSTRACTS


Thomas, Lowell~.  THE SEA DEVIL'S FO'C'SLE~.  Doubleday, Doran,
1929.   Copies this nice very hard to find -- true adventures of
Count Felix Von Luckner, German naval officer, in World War I --
how he took an old windjammer through British blockade & with it
raided Allied shipping in Atlantic & Pacific.  First Edition.

Wirkus & Dudley~.  THE WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE~.  Garden City
Publishing, 1931.  By no means numerous, & copies this nice very
hard to find -- true illustrated story of Marine sergeant crowned
King on a voodoo island.  First thus.



DETAILS


Thomas, Lowell~.  THE SEA DEVIL'S FO'C'SLE~.  NY NY, USA:
Doubleday, Doran, 1929.  Keywords:  Copies this nice very hard to
find -- Biography & Memoirs -- Espionage -- History --
Illustrated (photos) -- Journalism -- Marine-Nautical --
Military-War-Spy -- Non-Fiction -- Travel-Description-Exploration
-- true adventures of Count Felix Von Luckner, German naval
officer, in World War I -- how he took an old windjammer through
the British blockade & with it raided Allied shipping in Atlantic
& Pacific -- English language.  First Edition (so stated on
copyright-page).  Hardcover.  No dust jacket.  300 pages: 15
black & white photographic plates.  Binding height: 8-3/8".
Orange full cloth, title etc. black-stamped, top leaf-edges
tinted.  Book Very Good to Near Fine: name penned on front free
end paper, light bumping to spine-top (moderate to spine-bottom).
Binding strong & tight, insides Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (2)
available on request].  2236~.  US$50.-


Wirkus, Faustin & Taney Dudley~.  THE WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE~.
Garden City NY, USA: Garden City Publishing Company, 1931.
Keywords: By no means numerous, & copies this nice very hard to
find -- Biography & Memoirs -- History -- Illustrated (photos) --
Marine-Nautical -- Military-War-Spy -- Non-Fiction -- Travel-
Description-Exploration -- true story of Marine sergeant crowned
King on a voodoo island -- English language.  First thus (No
Additional Printings indicated).  First published by Doubleday,
Doran in 1931 & then by Garden City Publishing Company in same
year.  Hardcover.  No dust jacket.  333 pages: black & white
photographs throughout.  Binding height: 8-1/4".  Orange full
cloth, paste-on pictorial labels front & spine, illustrated
endpapers, top leaf-edges tinted black.  Book Near Fine: lightest
bumping to 1 fore-corner & spine-top/bottom.  Binding strong &
tight, cloth & labels beautiful, insides Fine.  [Digital JPEG
image (1.75) available on request].  2237~.  US$50.-


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